

The Inner Eye: Blue Corn, Blue Cheese & the Turning Reed
Series 3, Week 6: indigo food for the Third Eye Chakra - blueberry porridge, Mexico's blue corn tlacoyos (Sharon's pick), a leek, mushroom and blue cheese tart and maple plum crumble, with Lithuania's pink saltibarsciai cold soup and Samhain-week mulled cider as the ivy hands the month to the reed.


The Blue Voice: Butterfly Pea, Blue Rice & the Ivy's Hold
Series 3, Week 5: blue food for the Throat Chakra — Japanese blue milk bread with a butterfly pea swirl, Malaysia's nasi kerabu blue rice, garlic butter lobster linguine and blinis with sapphire blue caviar, with Sweden's chilled blueberry soup and the electric blue-violet Queen of Scots cocktail first tasted at the Balmoral.


The Green Heart: Peas, Pears & the Ivy's Embrace
Series 3, Week 4: green food for the Heart Chakra — a spinach and feta omelette, the British Heart Foundation's pea and mint soup, spanakopita and a watercress and pear salad, with Iran's abdoogh khiar cold soup and a hawthorn and rosehip syrup brewed for the heart.


The Inner Sun: Sweetcorn, Saffron & the Ivy's Climb
Series 3, Week 3: golden food for the Solar Plexus Chakra — sweetcorn fritters and salmon, Vietnamese grapefruit salad, Martha's paella and zabaglione, with quince and honey liqueur brewing for Christmas and the ivy heart of Chesil's Court.


The Amber Flow: Papaya, Calabaza & the Sunlit Vine
Orange foods for the Sacral Chakra with a Mexican slant — papaya & lime breakfast boats, sopa de calabaza, camote tacos and flan de calabaza, plus a sunset gazpacho, tepache, cempasúchil and damiana. Celtic Ogham: Vine (Muin).


The Deep Root: Beetroot, Raspberry & the Grounded Vine
Red foods for the Root Chakra — raspberry & rose overnight oats, kidney bean stew, beetroot & mushroom wellington, and baked apples with cranberry and hazelnut. Plus sloe gin and rosehips at their peak. Celtic Ogham: Vine (Muin).
The Crown Feast: Violet, White & the Wisdom of the Vine
A violet-and-white finale for Cook in Colour: four recipes inspired by the Crown Chakra and the Celtic Vine month.


The Inner Eye: Damsons, Black Grapes & the Vision of the Vine
Indigo foods for the Third Eye Chakra — damson & agave oat milk smoothie, duck ragu with black grapes, indigo milk cap mushroom toast, and dark grape salsa with blue corn chips. Plus apple & blackberry switchel and the bilberry harvest. Celtic Ogham: Vine (Muin).


The Blue Voice: Damsons, Elderberries & Finding Your Expression
Blue foods for the Throat Chakra — blue cornmeal pancakes, smoked mackerel with blueberry relish, blue cheese stuffed chicken, elderberry fool, and damson gin liqueur. Celtic Ogham: Hazel (Coll) to Vine (Muin).
Rhubarb, Lychee & Gin Jam
A house favourite jam originally created for Cook in Colour's Root Chakra week — tart rhubarb, sweet lychee, and a warm hit of gin, cooked down into a glossy amber preserve. Perfect on scones with clotted cream.















