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 […]
Radishes are one of the quickest foods you can grow, from seed to plate in just 4-5 weeks, and they are a great spring food with their crisp, crunchy texture and hot, peppery yet fresh flavour. I’ve gone from hardly liking them at all to considering them a bit of a wonder-veg. Now is the […]
A little while back I would have been the first to complain that foragers seem to be obsessed with making everything into a syrup – especially flowers. However, I’ve gradually learned that it’s one of the best ways of harnessing and preserving the flavour of many of nature’s best, and most fleeting specialties. Making syrups […]
I’ve loved magnolia trees ever since I was a child visiting my grandmother’s cottage in spring and seeing the beautiful Magnolia soulangeana in bloom in her garden. There seem to be a lot of magnolia trees where we live – I feel very lucky to be able to walk down nearby streets and see them […]
The story of this particular recipe begins – perhaps surprisingly – in Luang Prabang, Laos. You might be puzzled – how can a warming winter broth full of ingredients that grow abundantly in the wild during the coldest season here in the UK have anything to do with a small city in a tropical country […]