Cookery Workshop with Alex

Our chef Alex will be cooking a few things using the produce available in the shop, and he'll teach you how to make a meal using what's best in season.

For this workshop at the end of June, there are some lovely new things to cook: fresh peas, broad beans, and the last of the asparagus - perfect for a risotto - and we can make some lovely light ricotta dumplings to serve with a simple sage butter emulsion. Lastly, I'll show you some classic technique: how to break down a chicken for a sauté, and we can make a chicken bourride enriched with saffron and aïoli.

This list is a loose idea of what we might have, but as always at Leila's Shop we will stick to what is available and best in season.

The workshop will be part-interactive and part-cookery demonstration. We'll all stand around the bench in…