The cook Lisa Fearn has launched her first recipe book Blas/Taste at Aberglasney Gardens this week.

Blas/Taste contains over 90 delicious family-friendly recipes and is presented bilingually. The book also includes suggestions for activities to keep the children busy, creating home-made gifts, quick ideas and making the most of ingredients from the garden.

Lisa Fearn is a Carmarthen girl and a mother of five. She established a gardening and cookery school called The Pumpkin Patch in Allt y Gog Farm in Felin-wen, Carmarthenshire. By now, she has taught thousands of children to grow and cook their own food (she’s taught a few parents too).

Lisa is a columnist with the Carmarthen Journal and a regular on Radio Wales and Radio Cymru. She is also a cook on the Prynhawn Da programme on S4C. Above all, Lisa has a great interest in the social power of food.

Lisa says: “I love the outdoors, gardening and cooking. So, when our youngest reached school age, I took stock of what I knew and The Pumpkin Patch became a reality - a children’s cookery and gardening school teaching them how to grow and cook their own food. Within months, the school was fully booked, and I started sharing our family-friendly recipes with people.

“Blas/Taste is full of our favourite ‘go to’ recipes at Allt y Gog Farm. They are the recipes that I hope my children will use when they leave home - mum’s favourites. No fuss; easy meals and snacks that flavour the seasons and the year’s celebrations with the family. So invite everybody round to taste!”

Blas/Taste is a perfect gift this Christmas and is now available from your local bookshop or directly from Gomer Press on ww.gomer.co.uk/01559 363092.

Lisa will also be signing copies of the book at The Royal Welsh Winter Fair, Llanelwedd, November 28, 11 am on the Siop Inc stand and midday on the Merlin’s Hill stand; Aberglasney Winter Fair, December 2, 2 pm, and December 4, 2 pm; The National Library of Wales, December 8, at 5 pm.