Karen Wright: A busy month of demonstrations and chat

Unbelievably it is the end of February already, don't forget it is a leap year with that one extra day tagged on to the month. I have had the busiest month ever in terms of work engagements.
By Karen Wright
Published 28th Feb 2024, 08:01 BST
Karen at the Rhubarb FestivalKaren at the Rhubarb Festival
Karen at the Rhubarb Festival

The beginning of the month saw me up in Glasgow, spending a whole week speaking at the Scottish Event Campus as part of the team representing the Caravan and Motorhome Club. It was so good to meet so many Scottish club members and chat with them about their travel plans as well as get suggestions for great places to visit and good hearty Scottish food to cook.

I had a few days back at home in Wakefield to reset myself and prepare for yet another Caravan and Motorhome Show this time down at the NEC in Birmingham. It was Shrove Tuesday whilst I was there, so I was on pancake flipping duty along with TV presenter Matt Allwright. We had such a laugh and made a great team.

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Of course, it was the famous Wakefield Rhubarb Festival too and I returned home from the NEC on Friday morning, had a quick change of outfit and headed into town to give a talk for the Our Year 24 initiative in the afternoon. No rest for the wicked as the saying goes and after the talk it was straight back home again to prepare my ingredients for my demos in the Rhubarb Chef marquee which took place on the Saturday and Sunday mornings.

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My demos went down a storm, I cooked three dishes, a rhubarb curry, a rhubarb crumble and a recipe from my book Meals on the Move: A Campsite Cooking Journey which I managed to squeeze some rhubarb into! We offered tasters and everything was devoured! The Saturday afternoon of the festival saw me helping to serve rhubarb curries, sausage rolls and crumbles down at the Red Shed as it was a venue on the Official Rhubarb Trail. Again, we were packed and sold out quickly.

I am not so busy in March, and I am looking forward to spending some time with my family, but I do have some engagements including an event in the Ridings on Wednesday 6 March as part of Food Waste Week. I am part of the team cooking dishes from everyday ingredients that are so often thrown away like bread, milk, vegetables and so on. I have my thinking cap on now planning exactly what to make, but please pop by and say hello!

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