Upcoming Events & Workshops
Dumpling Making Evenings: Island Arts Centre, Lisburn October & November 2024
This Autumn I’m hosting two delicious dumpling making evenings at the Island Arts Centre in Lisburn.
Make Classic Dim Sum Dumplings, Thursday 17th October 2024, 7-9.30pm
Make potsticker and gyoza dumplings, Thursday 14th November 2024, 7-9.30pm
Learn lots of fab folding techniques and try some delicious seasonal dumpling fillings.
Come and help spread the dumpling love!
Summer Solstice Infused Gin Making Workshop - 20th June 2024
Join The Edible Flower, a culinary luminary featured in Vogue and The Irish Times, for a unique and special workshop celebrating the Summer Solstice. In this session we will be creating gin infused with hawthorn, elderflower, roses and herbs. Exploring the folklore of these botanical ingredients, you will learn how to infuse their essence into gin. Uncover solstice traditions and mystical properties, whilst blending infusing techniques with storytelling for a taste of the past and present. You will leave with your own jar of naturally infused gin.
Bealtaine Edible Flower Biscuit Decorating Workshop - 24th May 2024
The Edible Flower hosts a hands-on biscuit decorating workshop with edible flowers, merging culinary skills with cultural history. Led by Erin Bunting, this session explores floral flavours in classic bakes and delves into the influence of Celtic festivals like Bealtaine on modern cuisine. Participants gain insight into baking with edible plants, as well as pressing flowers and creating natural food dyes. In addition we will learn how to make plant infused lemonade to enjoy with our newly created decorated biscuits. We will make plenty of extras to take home and share.
Edible Flower Cake & Biscuit Decorating - 2nd & 3rd March 2023
Spend an evening with us here at The Edible Flower small-holding learning all there is to know about pressing and decorating with edible flowers.
Drink fizz. Watch Erin decorate one of these beautiful pressed-flower cakes, and learn everything you might want to know about it!
Eat the Cake! Drink Tea! You will even have a go yourself at making some gorgeous pressed-flower biscuits to take home with you.
Dumpling Making Evenings: Potstickers & gyoza - 23rd & 24th February 2023
Join us for an evening of dumpling eating, dumpling making & then more dumpling eating.
Learn how to make your very own potstickers and gyoza dumplings.
Learn lots of fab folding techniques and try some delicious seasonal dumpling fillings.
Come and help us spread the dumpling love!
Getting Crafty with Brigid
Gather with us to mark the celtic festival of Imbolc.
Join us at for an evening of seasonal learning, simple crafting, eating and drinking.
Learn how to make a traditional St Brigid’s Cross from rushes.
Learn about the traditions of the celtic festival of imbolc and St Brigid’s Day
Drink and eat snacks inspired by the season with like-minded cross-weavers
Festive Gin Making @ The Edible Flower 25th November 2022
We’re always being asked about how we infuse our alcohol for cocktails, this workshop will teach you how to infuse alcohol yourself, with some tips on what to use, not just for Christmas but seasonally throughout the year.
We’ll start off with a seasonal cocktail and canapes, followed a demonstration on how to infuse your own alcohol. Then you will create your own festive Gin to take home, ready for Christmas and we will finish off with a final cocktail and sweet bite.
Dumpling Making Evenings @ The Edible Flower - 15th & 17th November 2022
Dumplings are one of our absolute favourite comfort foods, a perfect little parcel of deliciousness ideal for dark and chilly autumn evenings.
We’ll start the evening with a small bowl of welcome dumplings and a tea. We’ll then learn how to make three types of dumplings and fillings. We’ll make some with dough from scratch, and some with bought dumpling wrappers. Everyone will make their own dumplings and we’ll then sit down at the end of the evening to eat them all.
Edible Flower Cake & Biscuit Decorating - 10th & 11th November 2022
We’ll begin the afternoon with a chat about how to prepare, store and use edible flowers. Next Erin will demonstrate how to use pressed flowers when decorating cakes, with a couple of different styles. Then you’ll get a chance to put what you’ve learned to the test by decorating your own edible flower biscuits to take home. We’ll finish with a slice of cake and a cup of tea.
MAKING DUMPLINGS WITH THE EDIBLE FLOWER: ONLINE WORKSHOP – WEDNESDAY 26TH MAY, 7.30PM
Do you fancy making your own dumplings from scratch but are not sure where to start? Join us on Wednesday 26th May to learn how to make some Asian-inspired dumplings.
Together we’ll be making both steamed and potsticker dumplings and practicing how to fold several different shapes including simple half-moons, pleated crescents and moneybags
MAKING DUMPLINGS WITH THE EDIBLE FLOWER: ONLINE WORKSHOP – WEDNESDAY 7TH APRIL, 11.30AM
Do you fancy making your own dumplings from scratch but are not sure where to start? Join us on Monday 29th March to learn how to make some Asian-inspired dumplings.
MAKING DUMPLINGS WITH THE EDIBLE FLOWER: ONLINE WORKSHOP – MONDAY 29TH MARCH, 7.30PM
Do you fancy making your own dumplings from scratch but are not sure where to start? Join us on Monday 29th March to learn how to make some Asian-inspired dumplings.
ONLINE RETREAT: YOGA & COOKING WITH MOURNE YOGA – SUNDAY 7 JUNE 2020
Join us online on Sunday 7 June from 10am – 2.30pm, when we’ll be teaming up with our friends at Mourne Yoga for a half-day of online workshops and cook-a-long fun!
VEGETARIAN COOKING CLASS: ASIAN FLAVOURS @ THE EDIBLE FLOWER – FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2020
We’re pretty obsessed with plants, so lots of our food is focused on making plants the star of the show – whether that’s fruits or vegetables, salads or herbs, pulses or grains. Eating lots of plants is brilliant as it’s generally healthier for you and your family, better for the environment (especially if you buy local, seasonal and organic/pesticide free where possible) and also totally delicious!
THAI COOKING CLASS @ THE EDIBLE FLOWER – FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 2020
Join us on Friday 24th January from 2pm to 6:30pm for an afternoon of hands-on cooking, learning and eating. Learn how to cook a delicious Thai meal and then sit down together with the rest of the class to enjoy the fruits of your labours.
VEGETARIAN COOKING CLASS: MEDITERRANEAN FLAVOURS @ THE EDIBLE FLOWER – SATURDAY 18 JANUARY 2020
Join us on Saturday 18 January from 2pm to 6:30pm for an afternoon of hands-on cooking, learning and eating. Learn how to cook a delicious Mediterranean inspired vegetarian meal and then sit down together with the rest of the class to enjoy the fruits of your labours.
DUMPLING EVENING @ THE EDIBLE FLOWER – 8TH & 10TH JANUARY 2020
Erin and I love dumplings. When we lived in London an awesome little dim sum restaurant opened up a few minutes walk from our house. It’s one of the few things we really miss here in rural Northern Ireland! Now we just have to make our own.
SOUL SISTER DOES SAMHAIN @ THE EDIBLE FLOWER, 31ST OCTOBER 2019
We’re delighted to be teaming up with Lorna of Soul Sister again for Samhain, the Celtic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the winter months. Expect fire, seasonal feasting and possibly a little bit of magic.
INSTAGRAM MASTERCLASS WITH @MATT_INWOOD – 10 SEPTEMBER 2019
This is an Instagram workshop for foodies, bloggers and anyone who wants to up their Instagram game. It’s a 4-hour workshop is for people who are perhaps new to Instagram, or for those who are interested in using it much more effectively, especially as a business tool to self-promote. There will be two main elements, followed by a delicious two-course lunch from The Edible Flower.
FORAGING & WOOD-FIRED PIZZA WORKSHOP – SATURDAY 6 APRIL 2019
It’s not every Saturday that we get to combine two of our favourite things – delicious wood-fired pizza and the joy of foraged ingredients. Join us for an afternoon at The Edible Flower learning all about the delicacies hiding in the hedgerows at this time of year, and how to use them to make the perfect wood-fired pizza.
BOUNDARY BREWING SUMMER SERIES @ THE BLACK BOX – 1 SEPTEMBER 18
You’ll be eating some delicious snacks and drink some of Boundary Brewing‘s awesome beers. We’ll talk about the basics of beer and food matching, why the combinations work well together and some classic combinations. You’ll try the matches we’ve prepared and hopefully leave feeling more confident matching beer yourself at home.