1 day to go...

...before we podcook!

Hi, the Kitchen Fairey is back and very excited about tomorrow.

Absolutely dead tired from the Bestival - any of you out there who went as well, what can I say? Wow! The bands, the food, the costumes, the woods, the people, the food...unbelievable. Hoping everyone else's weekend was as outrageous as mine.

Don't forget to get your ingredients today - you need:

2 tins of butterbeans
1 medium butternut squash
1 head of garlic
Olive oil
1 whole chorizo
Potatoes
Chicken stock
All nice easy things that you can find in the supermarket, the garden and the grocer's.
Music continues here at CWM HQ, and all is well - apart from Mrs CWM, who has had to give the dog a bath after he rolled in something unmentionable. Keep up with us on Twitter, don't be shy and say hello!

Love and magic and festival-inspired madness
Kitchen Faireyxxx

Hello cooks, mothers, friends. Kitchen Fairey here.

As announced in our last blog, CWM is kicking off next week with a new podcook. We've already given you the ingredients and utensils - so you've got a whole week and a bit to gather them together! We would have started this week, but I have pressing business on the Isle of Wight. There is a very exciting festival there called Bestival, which obviously would not be complete without a Fairey. Above you can see one of my festival friends from last year. Sorry to keep you waiting, but you never know - festivals are great places for discovery, perhaps I will come across some exciting new foodie things that I can share with you all. In fact, an idea is already brewing for a special Bestival-inspired podcook...I'll say no more but it will involve chocolate.

As for CWM HQ, well - it's just started to rain down in Hampshire, after yesterday's glorious sunshine. There are fresh chicken and mushroom pies on the way from the butcher across the road. The abundance of courgettes is at last under control - last time the allotment was harvested it produced millions of the things, huge ones. Mrs CWM was reduced to giving them away to anyone and everyone just to get through them all, while next door came up with an innovative way to make use of their own surplus - courgette cake. Very moist and delicious, if a little strange-looking.

Must return to the grind - though work's never bad when you're doing it in a house ringing with live music being created in the studio above your head.

Happy ingredient shopping, I'll be back with you on Monday!

Love

the Kitchen Fairey

New Term

We are really thrilled at all the people who have been following us on Twitter - even though we've been so lax at updating! Tessa the Kitchen Fairey is going to change all of that.

Well, I am back. Now how many times have I said that eh!?

Well this time I mean it - we have have a new team working on CWM with me this season after our Soho television adventure earlier this year, which as much fun as it was never really delivered what I had in mind originally.

Essentially I want to archive my Mums recipes in an easy to follow format in the shape of a live Podcook with an easy to follow recipe card accompanied by some of the best new music from all over the world.

We have a funky new server, a load of really good meals and some banging chunes which we will be sharing every Friday from our country kitchen here in Hants, England.

Tessa our Kitchen Fairey will be driving our Twitter so please get in touch with her and share all your thoughts, ideas and best of all your food and music.

Monday is going to be Fairey day, Wednesday will be recipe day and Friday will be Podcook day here on cookingwithmother.com

As well as food we will try and also provide you with info about locally sourced ingredients and seasonal produce all served up on a bed of music provided by my new record label Distracks who are our new sponsors.

I'm currently working on a new track with Paul called Big Feeling, which I hope to premiere with the Podcook on Wednesday. Latin breaks with the Spanish guitar to accompany this classic Spanish invention of my mother's. Now I'm going to pass you over to Tessa our Kitchen Fairey, who's going to tell you our plans for next week!

Hi everyone - Tessa, a.k.a Kitchen Fairey here. No that's not a misspelling, that's my actual surname.

So, next week we launch the podcooks. We will be creating the first one on Wednesday 16th September. Get ready for something home grown, fresh and full of surprises - and that's just the food.

Featuring next week will be Isabel D'Cruze's recipe for Butternut Beans
Normally I will announce the week's recipe the Monday directly before the podcook - but we're just so excited at Cooking With Mother HQ that we've given you this one a week early.

We thought we'd start you off with something easy - Butternut Beans is a lovely, simple and homely dish that you can throw together if you don't have much time and can easily feed a big group.

Ingredients:

2 tins of butterbeans
1 medium butternut squash
1 head of garlic
Olive oil
1 whole chorizo
Potatoes
Chicken stock

Utensils:

Tin opener
Chopping board
Sharp knife
Large cooking pot
Wooden spoon

Until our next post it's ta ta from him and cheerio from me.

Buenas

Marcos and the Fairey

Chicken out

Hello

This really will only take a minute.

I just took part in a new campaign to stop the Government making standards for UK chickens even worse!

Jane Kennedy at Defra is considering raising the maximum stocking density for intensive chicken production - effectively allowing more chickens to be crammed into those already overcrowded chicken sheds.

This Compassion in World Farming page made it really easy to send an email to Ms Kennedy, highlighting the issue and asking them to show support for chicken welfare.

You can take part right now if you follow this link:

http://action.ciwf.org.uk/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=119&ea.campaign.id=3425

Thanks!

Marcos D'Cruze

Twitter Time - From a Blog to the Box!

Hello one and all.

Time just shoots by and still no new Podcooks for all you hungry people, apologies.

The fact of the matter is everything is cracking along at a blistering pace, it is amazing how quickly things can change. 

On the 12th of April last year I posted my first "Cooking With Mother" Podcook (Mamas cracking pork Vindaloo for my belly MMMM MMMM) an mp3 Podcook from my London flat in Boca, Acton.

 

23/Feb/2009 and I am writing about "Cooking With Mother" being on the Telly from my new home which happens to be a thatched cottage in Hampshire. 

That's right, Cooking With Mother on the TV and I now live in a thatched cottage in rural Hampshire? Where will I be next year? Tibet? 

I only ever started this Blog for me and any other foodies out there that might be interested in podcooking. 

The chance for anybody to easily enjoy some good grub inbetween work and play, to have a recipe described to you on your ipod in stunning detail because it is as live and you can re-cook it over and over again, now who better to do that with than your Mum. 

So I recorded the phone conversations between us and posted them as podcasts to this blog as an archive.

And now a wonderfully supportive and clever TV production company called Bearkatt are in full swing producing "Cooking With Mother" The TV show. And boy are there some surprises in store!

Bonkers!

We begin filming on the 6th of March - our dates got pushed back a bit because of Comic Relief but everyone is still hard at it and readying for the shoot.

Speaking of which I should get back to work - I will be Tweeting more regularly from now on thanks to Twitterberry so please do follow the adventure with us by clicking the Podcooks Twitter link on the right hand side of this blog for all the up to the minute stuff. 

Thank you again to all of you that have emailed in recipes, podcasts, suggestions and kind messages over the last couple of months it is always lovely to hear from you, if you wish to contact us please email podcooks(at)cookingwithmother(dot)com. 

I promise to post to the blog again very, very soon.

Best

M

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Thank You

Dear all

Thank you so very much for your submissions, love and you lovely followers on Twitter for your interest.
We are heading towards a wonderful creation here with a crack team of programmers, designers and funding even in a credit crunch, not bad for a humble Blog.
We are looking to have something significant and different from all other cooking sites here for you all in the New Year.
In the meantime Chloe and I will endeavour to post some Pod Cooks with our Mother's while CWM is under construction.

Cooking With Mother, the ultimate cooking resource is on it's way.
We are coming at you like Mr Kipling - Exceedingly Good, enjoy the Beat Box Chef without his mother for now; as a musician this really appealed to me.

Beatbox Fame Game
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See you all soon.

Best

Marcos

Nearly There

Hi

We are very close to selecting our design agency and have had loads of submissions to our contribute post.
I promise to put some here.
I am really enjoying the journey Cooking With Mother is taking and these things take a while I suppose.
Please keep submitting I promise more news very soon.

Best

M