Celebrating seasonal, homegrown, and wild food
Flowering currants are a beautiful pop of pink in gardens, parks and the occasional hedgerow in spring. They are particularly abundant in March and April, but can still be flowering in early May in more northerly parts of the UK. I love their fruity aroma and gorgeous bright colour and they are just perfect as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you've been following along with this blog for a little while now, you probably know that we got our allotment just over a year ago. However, for years before that I've been growing what I can in our tiny London gardens in our various flats. One of the things I've managed to grow consistently [...]
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