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A Gift Of Zander
Today when i came out of Tesco, I saw the strangest craft on the canal. It was a small GRP skiff with what looked like a giant mouth brace on it, with tubes of different colours going into the water. The three men on it were working for CART, getting rid of invasive fish. They…
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Summer Foraging & Kimchi pics June
Taught some lovely people this weekend, including a paramedic, a biochemist, someone who works in international theatre and people that work with PRU units to make work opportunities for teenagers. I changed the tapas menu for Sat : this June we sampled Steamed Hogweed Flower Beetroot Club Sticks, Estonian Potato Nettle Cakes and Elderflower Jelly…
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Lemon ‘Mallow Melokhia Magic’..MMM.
Common Mallow (Malva sylvestris) is everywhere on disturbed soil and path edges. The leaves are wide and hand-like – if your hand was that of an Martian tiger! They have a deep red dot in the centre. The flowers are blowsy light pink with triangular petals. The triangle theme carries on in the brown, wheel…
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Turmeric Jack Raisin ‘Fermentomelette’ ;)
It’s time to get out in the spring sun and get foraging for vitamin and mineral packed young shoots and leaves. For a quick power lunch, try this omelette open sandwich I made with a lacto-ferment filling. Delicious! First, make your ferment. This needs doing a week before you add it to any recipes! Lacto-fermentation…
