We are finally enjoying our first successful year of growing carrots. We were able to harvest a handful in our first season, but didn’t yet have enough growing space to get very many. Then last year we didn’t harvest any at all due to the flooding of our plot and the destruction caused by what […]
The elderflowers are out and summer feels like it’s really here. I find myself making more and more with elderflowers every year as they’re wonderfully abundant and so incredibly fragrant and delicious. They also keep their flavour really well with heat which I find isn’t the case with many of the other wild ingredients I […]
I know it’s probably a little late now for cherry blossom buds unless you live fairly far north in the UK, but I’ve been sharing how to make these Japanese salted, pickled cherry blossom buds over on my Instagram stories and wanted to put together a post with all of the information in one place […]
You might have noticed a hiatus in my blog posting over the last few months. Without going into too much detail at this point, my body wasn’t taking no for an answer and the enforced rest was pretty much mandatory for a while! The good news is that I’m in full health, there is nothing […]
One of the goal’s we’ve had for our allotment since the very beginning has been to grow as much as we can throughout the year so that we can keep allowing the land to sustain us, at least in part, through the winter months as well as the summer. Obviously we’re far from being able […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]