Celebrating seasonal, homegrown, and wild food
Cherry blossoms might be long gone by now this year, but if you joined me in preserving some of the young buds with the recipe in this Japanese Salt-Pickled Cherry Blossoms post then this recipe is for you! If you didn't preserve any blossom buds this year, don't worry you can actually buy them online if [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
At this time of year there really is a sense of emerging as the blossoms and bulbs begin to flower. Saturday 20th March was the vernal/spring equinox which marks the final transition out of winter as the days and nights are of equal length. We spent the day outside on our allotment in the fresh [...]
I was inspired to try this combination when I came across a few chefs on Instagram playing around with celeriac in sweet recipes or cooked in a sweet-savoury way. Gill Meller's celeriac fudge ice cream was weird and intriguing to me, and then I came across someone using combining celeriac with frangipane (unfortunately I can't [...]
There's something very special to me about any plant that flowers throughout the winter. When the cold weather is biting, many of the trees are bare and the landscape's colour palette is more brown than green, seeing a pop of yellow really does brighten up your day. There's a saying that when gorse is out [...]
For me, this winter is going to be a time to cultivate a deeper appreciation of the small things, especially home comforts and the occasional treat. During the recent lockdown, and really since the first lockdown in March, we have made it a tradition to go for a walk on a Saturday to our local [...]
Whenever I see a bed of tumbling nasturtiums it always makes me think of the beautiful hobbit gardens in the Lord of the Rings films - is that just me? There are countless varieties of nasturtium from deep reds, through tangerine oranges, to soft yellows. At some point I want to grow all of them! [...]
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