Posts Tagged with: wild garlic

Wild Garlic Pesto

Posted in - Recipes & Vegetarian on May 3rd 2013 1 Comments dip olive oil pesto wild garlic

In the last post I wrote of Monica’s wonderful pesto. Here is my version which I hope does hers justice. We had it alongside moules with a mildly spiced tomato and wine jus (recipe to follow soon) and some crusty bread. Other suggestions: crusty bread to dip in it, on pasta and alongside some grilled …

Wild Garlic Soup

Posted in - Recipes & Vegetarian on May 2nd 2013 1 Comments healthy soup wild garlic

A few years ago when we first moved to Dorset, I was asked to cater for an Architects’ lunch at the DCRS (Dorset Centre for Rural Skills) at £5 a head. Wondering how on earth I could do this and make a profit, whilst walking my dogs I saw swathes of wild garlic and therein lay the answer: wild …

Eat meat from happily reared animals, and then you have their permission to really enjoy what you eat. Seconded by my great great grandmother, Dorothy Peel, in her books 100 years ago: ‘To judge by a letter which has appeared in the daily press and from private conversations it would seem that many people think that to abstain from meat on one of two days a week and to limit their total consumption to 2 ½ lb. per head per week is a restriction which may seriously affect their health. To be quite frank, it may affect their greed, but it certainly will not adversely affect their health; indeed, there seems good reason to think that less meat-eating would improve the health of the well-to-do.’ Mrs C.S. Peel, The Eat Less Meat Book, 1917