Burger of the Month
Jamie's offering this month is a 'lil shake up to our yearly burger rota, so sit tight and try the Peanut & 5 Spice Burger! Made with butternut squash, pak choi, spring onions, peanuts, coriander, 5 spice and Korean chilli; it's the perfect accompaniment to Deya's white beer 'I Do This All The Time', so grab them from us while you can!
Our toppings are Monterey Jack cheese, Applewood vegan cheese, halloumi, onion rings, avocado, homemade kimchi and salsa.
Our loaded fries are going strong. These fries are made with our air fryer, cooked with absolutely no added oil, while keeping their golden crispy crunch. Load them with either vegan/dairy cheese and red onion chutney/kimchi, or salsa and avocado.
Guest Coffee
East London’s Dark Arts Coffee have been an annual fixture in our shop since the beginning. Not only are their coffees fully traceable from farm to cup, but the importers they work with are committed to helping producers improve their product with funding & education. We'll also be stocking their Stonewell Riots coffee, that will donate a portion of the profits to Albert Kennedy Trust, which supports young LGBTQ+ people facing homelessness due to coming out. Their YouTube channel is also worth checking out - it’s where they host their ‘Number One Original Coffee News Show’ (!!!), interviews with ’Coffee Pals’ like Girls Who Grind, and offer some great virtual brewing guides for Coffee Pods!
This will be as always be served alongside our forever favourites Extract.
Guest Beers
This month we are over the literal moon to have in a huge range of Left Handed Giants brews! The Bristol-based company started brewing in 2014, then opened a taproom in 2017, completely funded by the local community. They are one of the UK’s only employee-owned breweries, lending them the kind of independence and freedom that can only lead to some very creative brews! They also hold a Run Club that “stands for equality, empowerment and community”, with the motto that “no one is ever left behind”. The blog is a truly unique one, where they open up and discuss the economics of running their business; update the public on their Brewhouse and Fermenters; and of course… give out free colouring book additions!!
Recipe of the Month
This month we're swooning over Jamie's Buckwheat Pancakes. These pancakes are great way to get some slow releasing energy into your morning so you can power through what is possibly the shortest summer ever?!
Ingredients
x1 cup of buckwheat flour
x1 tbsp spoon of either chia seed or flaxseed soaked in 40ml of oat milk
x1 tsp baking powder
x1 tsp bicarb of soda
x1 cup of nut milk of your choice
x1 tbsp of your choice of oil (we recommend coconut)
x1 apple, grated
x1 tsp cinammon
x1 tbsp of macca powder
1/2 tsp of tumeric
x1 tbsp of maple/agave syrup
x1 tsp of black sesame
A pinch of salt
Method
1. Get out a cup measurer and a mixing bowl and measure of your buckwheat flour.
2. Add all the other dry ingredients into your mixing bowl.
3. Pour in the chia/ flax seed in oat milk.
4. Add your nut milk and begin to loosely mix, then beat - it doesn't have to be smooth!
5. Grate your apple straight in, and begin to heat a large pan with your oil.
6. Add blini size dollops of your mixture to the pan, and cook until air holes appear before flipping over.
7. Watch them fluff up, then feel free to top with fruit, nuts and coconut yogurt.
Cowabunga Dude
It always seems like a long wait for Alison Bechdel’s next searingly brilliant graphic novel, but finally the wait is over! ‘The Secret to Superhuman Strength’ is a sprawling memoir of Bechdel’s life long love of exercise, set against a chronicle of fitness fads dating all the way from the ‘60s to the very present existential oddness of spin class. Bechdel traces a “chain of influence”, one which she follows all the way to her basement karate class & recent booms in physical fitness, when, as she puts it dryly, “a new activity requiring a specialised roof rack seems to be invented every day”. If it’s not for you, be sure to check Literary Hub’s Astrology Book Club for a book read recommendation, updated every month!
Keepin' It Green
Whilst they sound too cool to be real, “ghost ponds” are, and they're having a revival in Norfolk! Botanists have decided that the renewed research into the county’s huge number of ponds will lead to new plant discoveries. Already 6 plants of an endangered wetland flower grass have been found, after seemingly disappearing in the early 1990s. The ghost ponds are not only revealing lost plants, they're also easier to restore than creating new ones, as the biodiversity flocks back to these rediscovered watering holes.
