Category: spring

This chunky Wild Garlic Mayonnaise is brilliant for those nights when you’re having a pickin’ mix of foods that a perfect for dipping. It can be made at the start of the week and used in every way you’d use more common mayonnaise, obviously, the ratios can be changed to…

Through this piece we’re going to look at how to create our favourite Wild Garlic Pesto! The pesto I made with wild garlic is thick, chunky and delicious with a huge range of recipes, from stuffing chicken breast to serving as wild garlic bread and of course the classic pesto…

Wild Garlic / Spring / Edible Common Names Wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows’s leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, bear’s garlic Botanical Name Allium Ursinum Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Asparagales  Family – Amaryllidaceae Physical Characteristics Wild garlic is a bulbous, perennial plant, going into leaf…

This is a dish where deep, spiced lamb meets something a little unexpected: Sweet Cicely. It’s a soft, aniseed-scented herb that grows wild in the UK, and it brings a natural sweetness that works surprisingly well with the warming flavours of Moroccan spices. Instead of adding sugar or dried fruit,…

This side dish is nice to enjoy with a fish dish or served straight on to a nice toasted and oiled piece of ciabatta, even simply tossed through some pasta is also nice – lots of ways to use this! Ingredients: Will make a bowls worth – which will make…

This Japanese knotweed curd is smooth and velvety – it’s absolutely perfect and best suited served with afternoon tea on scones. Once made it must be stored in the fridge and used with one week, but I can guarantee it won’t last any longer than that. Ingredients: Makes 3-4 medium…

Japanese Knotweed / Spring / Summer / Edible Common Names Japanese knotweed, Asian knotweed Botanical Name Fallopia japonica Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Caryophyllales  Family – Polygonaceae Physical Characteristics of Japanese Knotweed Japanese knotweed is a hardy, herbaceous, rhizomatous perennial.  Plants are fully dioecious, with all individuals of the…

Today we’re going to be taking a look at some of the things we love about foraging at the coast. Foraging comes in many forms, from picking mushrooms in the middle of the deepest woods to wandering through open flower meadows, there’s quite literally something to be found everywhere. However,…