Nicola made this delicious wild greens and beans yesterday on a glorious spring morning. She used nettles and ramsons but you could swap out the ramsons for other wild greens as the foraging season progresses. If you can’t find any ramsons, add a couple of cloves of garlic to the ingredients. Ingredients 2 tbsp of […]
We’re right into foraging season now and will be running courses regularly for the next couple of months. We often get asked by our customers for tips for foraging so here’s a few things for you to think about and hopefully find useful. Foraging and the law There are a number of laws that you […]
Another recipe using Alexanders after this one for an Alexander & wild chervil tart. Although Nicola also made a dip using wild chervil to go with it. Plus our first ramsons of the year!! Ingredients Small bunch of Alexanders (young shoots and lower leaves) 500g of potatoes 50g butter 100g of flour Chunks of cheddar […]
We’ve been clearing the freezer of the last of the foraged fruits we collected last year, by turning it into jams and jellies, when we found some nettles that we’d forgotten about. We eat nettles a lot over the course of the year in many different ways, such as these puff pies. A couple of years ago […]
Lords & Ladies (Arum maculatum) is a plant commonly found in British woodlands and often along verges and hedgerows close to woodlands, particularly in shady spots. It can be found across Europe. It’s a plant that’s worth becoming familiar with as it’s poisonous and in fact is one of the commonest reasons for people going […]
This is a delicious vegetable curry; here we’ve used nettles and ground elder, but you could swap these ingredients for others depending on the time of year. In the photo below you can see it served with a venison curry, sag aloo made with nettles, samosas and pakoras, all made from foraged plants, and a […]
