Eating
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I’ve been intrigued by the idea of curing & smoking food for a while but I only started to seriously consider doing it when Martin from Old Sleningford Farm mentioned a) how cheap cheddar can be transformed by a little time in a smoker and b) how easy it is to build a garden smokehouse. [...]
Continue reading about Smoked cheese – my first attempt at cold smoking
While going about our chores, we had lunch in Saltaire on Saturday. We only wanted something light so got sandwiches – but when they arrived, the plates piled high with food – enormous sandwiches, stacks of salad and a generous portion of homemade coleslaw. It’s not often we’re overfaced by food portions but it happened [...]
Continue reading about Big portions vs food waste: a dilemma
After the pickling success a few weeks ago, I wanted to find other ways to use wild garlic seed pods for the year. Experiment 1: Mint and wild garlic seed pods pesto *Everyone* makes pesto from wild garlic leaves so I decided to give it a go with the pods and mint leaves. (After the [...]
Continue reading about More experiments with wild garlic seed pods
I love wild garlic. It was the first wild food I really tried and the one I’m still most comfortable with given how easily identifiable it is, and how it makes the world green when everything else is still hitting the snooze alarm after winter. Usefully, the woods next to our house are *filled* with [...]
Continue reading about Pickling wild garlic (Ramsons) seed pods
I just sowed my fourth pot of loose salad leaves of the season. We finished the last of the just-about-to-bolt Winter Gems lettuce this week and have got a tray of Lollo Rosso seedlings in our porch/greenhouse but loose leaves has been filling the gap between those beautifully – and in three or four weeks, [...]
Continue reading about Growing salad leaves – frugal, organic & green
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