World Kitchen in Leith

Something tasty bubbling in the World Kitchen

The week begins with great plans for another World Kitchen in Leith event…can’t say much at the moment but this time we’re working in collaboration with Multi-Cultural Family Base and Out of the Blue to hold a family event in the early spring.

Curried butternut soup

More warming recipes from the World (soup) Kitchen in Leith.  This one is from Claire with a deliciously easy method for making Curried Butternut soup for 4. As she says: “I love the whole bung it all in a pot aspect. No oil required!”

Red soup for a warm winter supper

Red soup for a warm winter supper

No food miles from field to this farm shop
By popular request, here’s the recipe for the red soup we mentioned on Facebook the other night.  Basically you can put together whatever red veg you can find in your cupboard  – a mix sweet potatoes or carrots and tomatoes with lentils for extra nourishment.  But [...]

Mridu's Magical Puri Bread

Mridu’s Magical Puri Bread

Continuing our World Kitchen in Leith recipe series, Mridu shares the secret of making Puris
They disappeared like hot cakes.  Deep fried Puris were one of the hits of our World Kitchen in Leith festival night.  Easier than rotis or parathas, puris still need a little practice if you want to get them to puff up [...]

Granny Barron’s Irish Wheaten Bread

Granny Barron’s Irish Wheaten Bread

Starting a series of World Kitchen recipes, Sam Barron passes on a family treat:
The recipe was never written down. Over generations the technique was simply a handful of this and a pinch of that.  Then one of Granny Barron’s daughters watched her mother as she made some bread.  She carefully measured the quantities and came [...]

Grandmothers' footsteps

Grandmothers’ footsteps

Granny Barron at 100 – can’t guarantee eating wheaten bread will give the same results for all.
Every member of the World Kitchen has a food story that goes back generations, every meal has an aroma that stirs memories.  Many  of the stories  and memories cross continents and somehow grandmothers are a recurring theme.

Donating to Pakistan

Donating to Pakistan

Just one of hundreds of images of the Pakistan floods, the YouTube series by Islamic Relief
An email arrives confirming our donation.  The World Kitchen in Leith evening at Out of the Blue raised a total of £288 towards the Pakistan Flood Relief Appeal.  It seems a very small contribution towards relieving some of the suffering [...]

In the cool of the World Kitchen

When we escaped from the heat of the kitchen this is what we saw from the “minstrels’ gallery”overlooking the fantastic space of the Out of the Blue Drill Hall Arts Cafe transformed for the World Kitchen in Leith.  The music mixed by our minstrels, RadioMagnetic, is Quantic – Mishaps Happening (Tru Thoughts) and [...]

No nightmare in the World Kitchen

No nightmare in the World Kitchen

Alice and Mridu in the kitchen, lots more pictures by George Lamb and Euan Wheatley on Flickr
Altogether it was a great experience. But  the night before the event we emerged from the kitchen slightly terrified. When it comes down to it, The World Kitchen in Leith is just a bunch of amateur cooks [...]

All right on the night

World Kitchen in Leith was a really memorable experience for the team and from the kind feedback (so to speak) our guests had a good night too.  Coming soon more food stories and some of those recipes from last night’s menus.  But first we still have a bit of clearing up to do.