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Mad about the alchemy of spices. Cooking up a storm in Lewes, East Sussex. www.sevensistersspices.com

04/06/2026

I ❤️ the arrival of English tomato season 🍅

Beautiful produce on the bench today. Thank you Halls Fruit & Veg for getting me some tomatoes 🍅❤️‍🔥

03/06/2026

Holding this form of Pepper energy while our Noa flies their way home from Australia for a 3 week holiday after being away for over two years.
TWO YEARS!
I feel like someone has taken their foot off my chest 🥹

29/05/2026

Last night I had a ball catering finger food for & this is the only documentary evidence, there are two reasons for this lack of photos…

The 1st I have mentioned here before - my falling out of love for the platforms & for dancing my monkey dance to the organ grinders tune.

The 2nd is that while I have steady work it is at a much lower volume than last year & on the whole I can’t afford to employ people to work with me when I cook, so when I’m in cooking I am often doing the work of two people over the course of a day. This was the case yesterday. The job paid enough to employ two people, it’s just that it was this week’s only job, & so that meant that it didn’t. It certainly left no time for photos.

These are exceptionally challenging times for food businesses. The weather this spring & its inevitable negative impact on coming crops is a huge worry. Add to this the impact of the wars. A lot of us micro businesses will fold under the pressure.

In the meantime I carry on. Next week has not one, not two, but three jobs, one which is for two events on two different days, and so I won’t be working alone for most of it. The week after is a Friday food week, & reducing that event to once monthly has been great - I am gaining more orders for the once monthly event than I did in total over the month when offering it every other week. I am able to run my kit less, the energy guzzling large fridge, dishwasher, ovens…they stay off most days, & hopefully this will impact my outgoings.

My diary is sparse for most of July and August. I am hoping to add two pop ups during this time, my June one is fully booked so hopefully these will book up too. I don’t yet know what the cost of hiring the new venue next door will be, so it’s hard to plan exactly what I will be offering, but watch this space on your feed - I have lots & lots of ideas.

In short, thank you for reading. If you are a customer, past, present or future, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Sometimes getting to do this work feels like both an indulgence and a grind. I love feeding people, last night was pure joy. I hope that I can continue to do so.

25/05/2026

Free Recipe Booklet over on my latest Substack post. Swipe for contents. Link in the usual places.

If you head that way and like what you see please consider subscribing, better yet become a paid subscriber for £5 a month or £50 for the year. I know that this is beyond many people’s means, but if you do enjoy/value/appreciate the work I do and would like to support me via an income stream that is only used to enable me to do more writing, then here are the perks you gain as a paid subscriber:

1. Hope’s Kitchen the Fanzine in the post.
2. Recipe booklets in the post - I am working on collating my Spice Guide that’s free to access on Substack into a printed booklet.
3. Discounts on workshops and events.
4. Occasional discounts on products.
5. My eternal love and gratitude.

I don’t paywall content on Substack. I believe that in the absence of appropriate taxation by government we need to levy taxes on ourselves. I subscribe to 4 micro independent businesses and individuals whose work I value and want to see survive. Every paid subscriber I gain boosts my confidence and my income. It all adds up.

Wishing you a great bank holiday if you’re able not to be working. Stay cool out there ❤️‍🔥

22/05/2026

Beautiful local produce on the bench this week with thanks to and

19/05/2026

A perk of working in catering is coming home with left overs - last week I brought home some dal and some madras curry sauce. We had it over the weekend, poached some fish in the madras sauce and had it with the dal with some spinach added. Then last night we added some more veg’ and water to make a soup. This morning I heated some of this up in a frying pan and cooked a couple of eggs in it, shakshuka style and I cannot wait to do it again tomorrow!

17/05/2026

Yesterday was a workshop day ❤️‍🔥
I am in the process of updating my website, which will include details of the new way I am offering workshops in the future - details coming soon…. If you would like to stay in touch via my broadcast WhatsApp group, I’ve added the link to join to my linktree in bio.

13/05/2026

Seasonal Salads & Dessert for a small private party today

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Muddles Green
Lewes
BN86HW

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https://linktr.ee/sevensistersspices

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