Carrot Special – featuring Carrot Cake, Carrot Slaw and other Carrot-y ideas
Today has been such a gorgeous day I dashed out on the bike before lunch and did a quick 25 mile circuit to enjoy the warm air swirling round my legs, the lovely… Read More
Category Archive: Foraging
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Super Duper Sloe Gin
Earlier in the year I showed you what to look for when finding your sloe bushes and advised you to hunt them down then ready for the autumn. Well in the words of… Read More
Beech Noyau Recipe
My mother has a rather ancient cake tin with quotes and little paintings ranged around the outside, these are ingrained in my memory now, and whilst in winter I’m comforted by the quote… Read More
Wild Spring Salad
As spring rolls on, more and more little leaves are unfurling all over the place and many of them are edible. After the rather barren past few months where it feels as though… Read More
REMINDER. Beech Noyau
Since I reminded you to keep your eyes open for Blackthorn blossom a few weeks ago, many other things have started to flicker into life along the hedgerows and suddenly you won’t be able… Read More
Sloe Gin Reminder
Eventually, Spring has (sort of) sprung! All along the roads there’s beautiful billows of cherry blossom, and elegant froths of blackthorn. When I was little I was entranced by the poem by A… Read More
Warming Blackberry Whisky
Recently, we’ve been having some beautiful autumnal days, blue skies, cool air and warm sun. I’ve been out picking blackberries in the mellow sunshine and getting myself some juicy elderberries along the way.… Read More
Harvest Festivities…Bakes, Jams, Pickles, Puddings and Liqueurs.
Eventually, a moment to sit down at the computer and share some of the recipes that have kept me going over the past few weeks of digging out compost heaps, cutting hedges, and… Read More
Autumn’s Bounty
We are now on the cusp of Autumn and I have noticed a crispness in the morning air that makes me think of homely, warming cooking and snuggly wool jumpers. As Keats would… Read More
Venison Casserole with Wild Mushrooms and Marjoram.
I’ve dithered over this post for a while, mainly because I know that TV chefs expound upon the virtues of various meats and treats that are really far beyond the budget of your… Read More
