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 […]
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 […]
Winter may seem like one long, dark emptiness, especially this year, but there’s so much that we can embrace about winter when we look deeper. One thing I love about this season is the earthy, hearty root veg that come into season at this time. Parsnips and sprouts both develop their sweetness after a frost, […]
This week marks a whole year since we first got our allotment. Mark and I have been looking back over photographs from the very beginning and although there might still be lots to do, we’ve come a very long way! I sometimes wonder if we’re taking longer and being more thorough than we need to, […]
May (well towards the end of April until the start of June) is all about asparagus in the UK. This crunchy, tender, delicious veg has such a short season which makes it all the more exciting to many of us Brits alongside our propensity to lose our minds over Jersey royals and, more recently, wild […]
Since I was very small, I’ve always wanted my own vegetable patch. The fact that you can nurture something from seed to something you can eat is still amazing to me. Living in London, it’s not easy to come by the garden space needed for a full vegetable patch, so until now I’ve grown tomatoes […]
The humble leek seems to be a much underrated vegetable, yet it’s one of the few that still thrives in the colder months and features in many a winter recipe. Leeks take centre stage in a chicken and leek pie, leek and potato soup, and are delicious baked in a cheese sauce – a Christmas […]