A sweet and luxurious risotto that captures the best of the seasons Elderflower and some delicious early peas to create a delicious meal! Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil 6-8 heads of Elderflower (+ 1-2 additional heads to serve) Vegetable stock 1 onion, finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced 250g Arborio…
Tag: summer
Most of us have probably tried an Elderflower Gin or two by now and the flavour has become linked with the idea of a British summer. It’s fantastic with tonic and a sprig of rhubarb or with frozen strawberries. However, the flavour is always better when you’ve made it yourself…
Elder Flowers come in to bloom once a year and you can really tell when they’re here. This Elderflower cordial recipe is a lovely way to use them. The elder tree is quite literally a mass of flowering blooms throughout June. Their bloom signals the beginning of summer and it’s…
This fish chowder with coastal greens recipe is fabulous and can stand with a huge array of coastal veg, from Marsh Samphire to Sea Beet and Sea Blite, everything wild and edible at the coast has the potential to make an appearance in the fish chowder band. One thing I…
This is a fantastic, fresh and filling recipe that can be cooked up in just 5 minutes. Often we think recipes involving wild food will take hours and hours or even days to cook up but the truth is wild food can link into our modern diets and cooking methods…
This BBQ Wild Garlic & Hogweed with Chicken Recipe is a brilliant way to celebrate a hot spring utilising wild garlic in multiple forms. Cooking quickly over open flames is often the best way to enjoy wild ingredients. Ingredients: Chopped veg (peppers, onion, par boiled potato) chunky chopped so it…
This is a nice, simple and delicious way to use the leaves from a fig tree to get a sweet treat whilst waiting for the figs to ripen! The fig leaves will need to be dehydrated or dried and then ground into a powder. Ingredients: 225g plain flour 150g softened…
My favourite method of capturing the essence of Meadowsweet is with this wonderful lemon and Meadowsweet curd. The Meadowsweet adds an incredible almond flavour to the classic curd. In little jars, it makes beautiful summertime gifts and can be spread on toast, cakes or pancakes and stirred into puddings and…
This Elderflower lemonade has A zesty flavour that will cleanse your palette, refresh and hydrate your body and a hot summers day, perfect at a BBQ or when you have friends over. Ingredients per 1ltr or Elderflower Lemonade: 50g Caster Sugar 2 Lemons 4 Big Elderflower Heads 1 teaspoon salt…
Elderflower fritters are the quickest thing to make with Elderflower, you can literally have them from the tree to fritters within 5 minutes – they couldn’t be more freshly picked. These are a brilliant as a midday snack and work brilliantly as a key to getting kids into foraging and…