mid-week meal on repeat ✨

I've been making today's featured recipe on repeat for the last few weeks—it's that good! It's a new Miso Garlic Chicken with a Carrot, Beet, and Toasted Sesame Seed Salad. It's healthy, vibrant, nourishing, and the kids love it. It's also perfect for meal prep or scaling up for a crowd. If you have young kids like me, or just like to be organised, I love that I can prep the chicken and veggies in advance, then bake and throw together just before dinner time. The perfect weeknight meal.

In other news, my son's 'dinosaur-esque' birthday cake was a success! I topped it using a few dinosaur figurines I found in the cupboard, some leftover Easter eggs, and fresh rosemary cut from the garden. It turned out super cute, and he loved it.

Other food highlights from the celebrations were my baked eggs, chia puddings, a delicious focaccia (thanks to Nicola Lamb's recipe), and an epic fruit platter crafted by my mother-in-law—simply stunning.

Later for dinner, I experimented with a slow-cooked lamb shoulder (a new recipe I’m developing), then kept it simple with steamed potatoes and tarragon butter (another work-in-progress, but essentially melted salted butter infused with fresh tarragon poured over the potatoes—delicious!), alongside a mix of leafy greens and a radicchio salad topped with roasted walnuts. It was a big weekend of entertaining!

In today's newsletter, I've curated a few recipes perfect for Mother's Day in a few weeks, along with some lovely gift ideas under 'Things I’m loving'. I also just filmed a new video for the ever-popular Teriyaki Salmon Bowls, which is definitely worth making if you haven't yet.

THIS WEEK IN GATHERED: NEWSLETTER
✨ Miso Garlic Chicken with a Carrot, Beet, & Toasted Sesame Seed Salad
🍒 Roasted Hazelnut, Almond & Sour Cherry Florentines
🍳 Smokey Tomato Baked Eggs
🍞 Things I’m Loving - my go-to narrow-bake loaf tin
🥰 From the Community

NEW ✨ Miso Garlic Chicken with a Carrot, Beet, & Toasted Sesame Seed Salad

Here's a healthy, vibrant, and nourishing miso garlic chicken recipe that makes the perfect mid-week meal. It's also great for meal prep or for increasing quantities if serving a crowd.

In the video, you'll see that I'm whisking the dressing in the bowl I'm serving it in to save time and washing up. Feel free to use a small jar or container and shake it together if you're meal prepping, taking it somewhere, or serving the salad at a later time.

• If you're looking for stunning flowers for Mother's Day (or any occasion), WILD FLOS is my go-to for sending.

• These white stoneware plates by Meredith Adams. I love the idea of hanging them as wall art. I've got my eye on the Swan Plate for my daughters room.

• I use my Falcon Enamelware trays on the daily, love them! My favourite is their narrow-bake Loaf Tin, which I constantly use.

• Health Nut: A Feel-Good Cookbook by Jess Damuck

• Currently loving this hand cream by Kit. It's so soft and smells divine.

That’s it from me. I'm off to prep for a dinner party I'm hosting tomorrow night. I'm thinking of making my Tomato Vodka Fusilli and a fresh Pici Cacio e Pepe, along with a few salads. Probably a Chopped Kale, Radicchio, & Parmesan Salad as well as my Fennel & Orange with Olive Oil Fried Walnuts & Zest. I'm also baking fresh focaccia (which seems to be on the regular lately!) and try my hand at fresh chicken liver pâté. It's a new recipe for me, but I'm excited to give it a try!

Have the best weekend, and I'll chat to you soooon.

🍋 Ash x