Celebrating seasonal, homegrown, and wild food
The cabbage. An unloved, perhaps uninspiring vegetable to some, a saviour in winter for the allotment keeper! Cabbages are generally cool-weather veg with winter varieties that can grow slowly but surely through the frosts. There are the deep green crinkly varieties that fill you with the sense that you’re being good to yourself by eating [...]
The joy of autumn is difficult to describe. Is it the leaf colours, the weather cooling, mushroom gathering, warming up around a campfire and how it feels all the more magical now the air is crisp and the dark evenings draw in? This year it feels accentuated by the sunny weather we've been enjoying after [...]
It's October again. The weather is getting cooler and the leaves are slowly turning their beautiful shades of orange and red. It's a time to savour the last of the vibrancy of summer, and to start getting used to the darker evenings and crisp mornings. The jackets are out, the gloves are on, and scarves [...]
I've mentioned our apple glut quite a bit over on Instagram, but we've also got a pear tree that has been just as abundant. I have plans to make plenty of chutney, and perhaps to freeze a few, but I love to preserve them in a flavoured syrup too and enjoy them with some ice [...]
As much as I love whiling away an afternoon, or indeed an entire day, cooking something elaborate, I tend not to want to take forever making lunches during the week. The flip side is that I still don’t want lunch to be boring, and so I have a few recipes up my sleeve that I [...]
Wild plums are often smaller than shop-bought varieties, more alike to the size of a cherry hence one of their common names being "Cherry Plum", but what they lack in size they make up for in sweetness and flavour. They're also known as Mirabelle plums in France and are incredibly popular there, particularly in the [...]
First of all apologies for my lack of blog posts in the past little while. If you've been following me on Instagram lately you will know that last week was a huge week for Mark and me - WE MOVED HOUSE! After the tense legal process and trying not to let ourselves get too excited [...]
With May being so cold this year, a lot of things have been a little slower to appear than usual. One example is the St George's mushroom, Calocybe gambosa, which as its name suggests usually starts to appear around St George's Day, 23rd April. This year, however, they didn't seem to start appearing until much [...]
Lilacs are a real highlight of late spring, bursting with fragrance and colour all over the place. They come in a range of purple hues as well as some pink and white varieties too, and all are edible and delicious. Care should always be taken not to confuse them with superficially similar horse chestnut flowers [...]
I'll get one important thing out of the way: "Ground Ivy" is a very different plant to English Ivy which is poisonous and definitely shouldn't be eaten. Ground ivy is actually related to mint and is has also been known as creeping charlie, alehoof, gill-over-the-ground, and many more names. In a similar way to mint, [...]
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