Jump to Recipe Print Recipe Dandelions are popping up everywhere at the moment. So why not treat those you love the most in your life and cook up some beautiful dandelions to eat, Give the ultimate gift this year – your time and a new experience and get your family out collecting. Get outside, take […]
I can’t help it I HATE well meaning parenting blogs. I find mysef listening to their parenting advice wondering if they have ever met a small child. Let alone had lunch with these tiny but fierce magnifcient creatres. Their big smiling grins turning to intorabe rage if a pea dares to touch ANOTHER pea on […]
Jump to Recipe Print Recipe Straight from the farm to the catwalk is the sexy sprout top. Don’t leave …sprout haters – come back! This vibrant elegant purple-green leaved veg is a British winter wonder that tingle your taste buds. Don’t believe us? Read on to find out more. This showstopping veg is loved by […]
18/07/2022 Should We Eat Jellyfish? As I sit and write this it is hot! Unusually for the UK, it has been hot for weeks, and the heatwave is only set to continue. Luckily, I live by the coast and when I’m not at home writing blogs about food, you can almost certainly find me at […]
Jump to Recipe Print Recipe “He saw fuchsia in a drizzling noonThe Elderflower at Dusk like a risen moonAnd green fields greying on the windswept heights.”Extract from Glanmore Sonnets by Irish poet Seamus Heaney Let me give you a sneak peak into the Eldertree folklore passed down to me by my Irish mother Mona and […]
Jump to Recipe Print Recipe Sign up to our mailing list here to receive seasonal recipes (just like our magnolia manhattan) and foraging inspiration delivered straight to your inbox. Spring has arrived in spectacular style, with every highway and hedgerow exploding into bloom. From the explosion of crab apple blossoms lining city streets to the violet flowers […]
As a conscientious child I was always concerned about the planet. I was the kid at school helping the bugs off the playground and turning off unused switches‘for the polar bears’ (I’m not sure now how much good it did, but I was trying). It’s hard to know when collecting bugs on leaves morphed into […]
Jump to Recipe Jump to Video Print Recipe The changing of the seasons is the most magical time of the year. As we gently say goodbye to Spring and hello to Summer which starts on the 21st of June we notice little signs that the ‘Hunger Gap’ will soon be over, giving way to the […]
Jump to Recipe Print Recipe During this morning’s meeting, a bleary eyed Xanthe wandered into the kitchen, eager to see why on earth her parents were talking to their computer, rather than playing with her (a mystery indeed). Her eyes lit up as she spied treats on the table- a pack of custard creams. “Can […]
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10/02/2022 The Joys of Spring: Sunny Daffodils, Prancing Poets and Cheesy Leek Scones ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.’ I Wandered Lonely […]
29/09/2021 Juniper 101; Terrific Tipsy Tales and Sozzled Stories. Researching for this blog I opened a veritable Pandora’s box of folklore. Apparently juniper could be used for anything from Protecting your home from thieves and witches, treating burns and even a vaginal douche. Oh, and making Gin of course. It is my job to distill […]
Jump to Recipe Print Recipe Celebrating VE Day with you in lockdown was an extremely special moment. Driving through those VE Day flag lined streets and feeling the swirl of the community as we delivered your vintage inspired hampers. It is a memory that will always stay warm in our hearts. So put your feet […]
16/02/2021 Steamy Saucy Sardines: The Shimmering Creatures of the Sea Shimmering its Scales on the Catwalk this week is the very Steamy Saucy Sardine. Sardines are a pint sized fish that grow no bigger than 25cm. That doesn’t stop them from playing a goliath role in marine ecosystems around the world from Peru to Philippines. […]
