Monday
- Ackee and saltfish with fried plantainflaked saltfish · soft ackee · fried plantain
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Bristol: its food, and a week to cook at home.
A port city whose ships once carried sugar, cocoa and rum, now cooking from the Caribbean, Somerset and far beyond.
The photograph is AI-generated.
What people eat here
Dishes from Bristol
No. 1
The first chocolate bar
J. S. Fry and Sons of Bristol made what is often called the first chocolate bar to eat, in 1847.
No. 2
The port's history
Bristol grew rich on trade in sugar, tobacco and rum. Much of that trade rested on the labour of enslaved Africans, a history the city now tells openly.
No. 3
St Pauls Carnival
A Caribbean carnival in St Pauls, with jerk chicken, rice and peas and patties on the street.
No. 4
Cider
Somerset's orchards are on the city's doorstep, and cider is the local drink.
What grows here, and when
Cider apples in autumn, strawberries from the Cheddar valley in early summer.
Somerset grows cider apples and makes Cheddar, and the Severn estuary has long been fished.
Seven days, seven menus
A sample week from our recipes
A week to cook at home that suits Bristol and its seasons, using only recipes on this site. Each day reads in the order you eat.
Tuesday
- Caribbean pumpkin soup with coconutgolden pumpkin · coconut and thyme · toasted seeds
- Jerk chicken with rice and peasscotch bonnet and allspice · charred chicken · coconut rice and peas
Wednesday
- Ploughman's plate with quick pickled onionsmature cheddar · crusty bread · pink pickled onions
Thursday
- Ital stew with squash and coconutcoconut and thyme · butternut squash · okra and kidney beans
- Caribbean rice and peascoconut rice · red kidney beans · thyme and pimento
Friday
- Crisp hake with minty crushed peascrisp-skin hake · minty crushed peas · lemon new potatoes
Saturday
- Lamb kofta flatbreads with garlic yoghurtspiced lamb kofta · garlic yoghurt · sumac onions
- Lebanese tabbouleh with bulgurchopped parsley · lemon · fine bulgur
Sunday
- Roast chicken thighs with leeks and potatoesgolden chicken thighs · sweet roast leeks · crisp potatoes
- Crisp roast potatoes with rosemary and garliccrackled roast potatoes · rosemary · soft roasted garlic
- Cinnamon churros with chocolate saucecinnamon sugar churros · dark chocolate sauce · warm from the pan
We have no Somerset cider recipe. Our churros come with a chocolate sauce.
