Voyage Around My AGA

We're celebrating our coming-of-age episode by heading outside and firing up the barbeque to experience some of the mouth-watering recipes from Honey & Co's new cookbook Chasing Smoke: Cooking Over Fire Around the Levant.

Charlotte explains more about British Flower Week, celebrates the success of her artisan pop-up event whilst also giving tips on flavoured oils, vinegars and sugars and Steve has been dancing in the streets having seen the joyful and uplifting new musical film, In The Heights.

Plus Archie is looking very smart and much cooler having had another visit to the groomers!

Charlotte has to rush to our make-shift Voyage Around My AGA studio (otherwise known as the kitchen table) following early morning sheep shearing!  This week we’re rooting through our recipe files to discover where we find our inspiration and how we keep track of all those ripped-out pages.  Let's just say that Charlotte's is a little more organised!

Steve is championing the humble salad leaf whilst Charlotte celebrates the traditional cottage garden flower, Sweet William.  All that, and we have unmissable tips for using bicarbonate of soda.  Could life be more thrilling?!

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In this episode, we're treating ourselves to succulent, delicious Lobster and brushing up on our culinary techniques through the pages of the invaluable cookbook Leith's How to Cook.

Charlotte is celebrating the showy Iris, named after the greek goddess of the rainbow and has tips on how to keep cool.

As lockdown eases further, Steve has ventured back to the cinema and loved Cruella and, as usual, conversation wanders into unexpected territory!

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With the sun beating down, Charlotte is exploring Granny's Bonnet and relishing Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook.  The much-maligned Broad Bean is our seasonal ingredient - we're on a mission to get people to enjoy this fabulous seasonal veg!

We have an ice cold tip-of-the-week and Steve explains why he won't be attending any festivals......

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As the British weather forces Charlotte to rearrange her artisan pop-up event, we take refuge in the Voyage Around My AGA kitchen to study the bestselling cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat and to explore new ways of using Elderflower.

In the newly named Charlotte's Corner, she reminds us all of the tiny Forget-Me-Not, which seems to remind Steve of music!

The weather has at least enabled us to catch up on TV, and Steve has gone very Proud Mary remembering Tina Turners final concert tour.

We're going retro this episode, reminiscing about our first cars (Steve's progressed a little from his Citroen 2CV!) and delving between the well worn covers of Nigel Slater's Real Cooking.

Charlotte's dander is well and truly up about rubbish and she doesn't care who knows it, with an unplanned tip! Plus she highlights the fragrant flower classic Lily of the Valley.

The pair have been foraging for Wild Garlic and seeking out recipes and Steve's puppy Archie is becoming a little overexcited by the opposite sex.........

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As we are finally able to meet with friends and relatives, Charlotte and Steve are trying to remember how to entertain, and delving into Skye McAlpine's 2019 cookbook A Table For Friends for inspiration.

The simple pleasures of Jersey Royal potatoes are explored as our seasonal ingredient and Charlotte is all in favour of the revival of a 70's dried flower classic, Honesty.

All that plus our changing shopping habits, a difference of opinion on the finale of Line of Duty and the hidden meaning of pampas grass!

We're celebrating chicken in this episode with Diana Henry's outstanding cookbook "Bird in the Hand".  A favourite of both Steve and Charlotte, they discuss their favourite recipes from the book.

Watercress, with its lovely peppery flavour,  is our seasonal ingredient and Charlotte shines a spotlight onto the Wallflower.  Steve is struggling with a puppy that won't walk and there's a warming tip-of-the-week.

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We're all about the veg this episode, celebrating British asparagus and delving between the covers of the latest Ottolenghi cookbook, Flavour.

We talk about how to make your own yoghurt in our tip-of-the-week and there's an extremely random update from Steve on his deep-fat fryer!! The brilliant bloomer Ranunculus, brightly coloured, with ruffled petals is recommended by Charlotte and, be warned, there's an update on Archie, Steve's new Dandie Dinmont puppy!

Plus we're on tenderhooks watching Line of Duty......we're cooking with diesel!!!

We're back!  We kick off season two with an update of Steve's Chef Academy experience (you really would think that he'd know that to cook something, the oven needs to be on - just listen, all will become clear!).  Charlotte is in the midst of lambing her beautiful rare breed Portland Sheep and coming up with some very interesting names.

Steve's family has grown with the arrival of Archie, a Dandie Dinmont terrier puppy and its all new territory for him and his partner, Stephen.

Plus we tease some of the recipe books and seasonal ingredients that we'll be featuring in upcoming episodes.

And if you haven't heard of lawn porn, you definitely need to listen!

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