Recipe

Allotment or foraging inspired recipes.

Wild and Fluffy Food

February 3, 2012
Wild and Fluffy Food

I’ve been inspired by John Lewis-Stempel’s “The Wild Life“, to resurrect my fascination with wild and local foods. Although I haven’t actually foraged much further afield than Borough Market, I am currently preparing a pot of slow cooked, wild, rabbit stew. I might not have shot it myself but I was rather perturbed when I [...]

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Roasted Sweet Beetroot Relish

August 21, 2011
Roasted Sweet Beetroot Relish

The plot and the hedgerows are so productive at the moment. It seems about two months too early but the sloes are already plump and juicy. I’ve just had to polish of the last remaining drop of slow gin from last year so that I can re-use the bottles for this year’s vintage. Extraordinarily tasty [...]

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A Short Foraging Interlude

November 14, 2010
A Short Foraging Interlude

Last weekend I became a forager, this weekend I quit. It started at 11am this morning in the pouring rain, we’d just had to vacate our lovely weekend Yurt and the warm safety of the wood burning stove. All for the sake of a haw, or two. Having shredded our hands on blackthorn and rosehip [...]

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Mother-in-law’s Ruin and the Marrow Jam Off

October 3, 2009
Mother-in-law's Ruin and the Marrow Jam Off

There’s been some degree of performance anxiety in the house since the great marrow jam disaster of August 09. We made a minor error of judgement when we told the whole, sorry, sloppy tale to the mother in law. Having triggered a nostalgic memory for jams of old she’s been threatening ever since to pull [...]

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