Tales from my allotment….
Fresh, light recipes for Spring!
When I pick wild garlic I do it with excitement. Quite a few things end up in my basket which are not wild garlic leaves; lots of stem, the odd bit of moss, and many of the garlic bud flowers which grow so abundantly early in the season. The last time I picked a haul [...]
Another wild garlic recipe, but when it grows so freely and tastes so good, why not? A number of you have asked for my wild garlic pesto recipe so here it is. I will however begin with a disclaimer - my attitude to recipes is quite basic. I am not the kind of person who [...]
I recently discovered the joys of foraging and this year I've really experimented with wild garlic. If you haven't tried it before, wild garlic tastes similar to its cultivated cousin, tangy, pungent and unapologetic. It's found abundantly in woodland, and can be harvested from around March to May. It's an ideal introduction to foraging as [...]
