Year: 2015

  • Llŷn Land and Sea Food Festival

    I will talk about wild food and foraging at the Llŷn Land and Sea Food Festival this Saturday and Sunday. I thought it would be helpful for anyone attending those talks to have a guide to the sort of books that may help them identify and eat the wild food they find. This is very…

  • Gorse Ice Cream Recipe

    I recently led a workshop for local tourism businesses on how to use foraged foods in their offerings. The workshop was organised by Snowdonia Active a regional green business organisation. The aim of the workshop was to inspire the attendees to give visitors a ‘Taste of the Llyn Peninsula‘ by using locally provenanced wild food.…

  • Carrot top pesto recipes

    Once you know how to make carrot top pesto, you’ll never want to waste your carrot ‘greens’ ever again. My recipe appeared online and then in my book The Permaculture Kitchen. Since then, I’ve seen carrot top pesto used by loads of people in all sorts of creative and scrumptious ways. I thought it’d be…

  • Griddled, sweet and sour marinated pumpkin recipe

    We spent a very happy few days in Ostia Antica near Rome with Carla Tomasi earlier this month. We ate like royalty and had lots of fun cooking with, and learning from, Carla. I’ll share some of the recipes in the coming weeks as I recreate them from my notes. The first recipe is for…

  • Stuffed sardines recipe, sarde a beccafico

    Stuffed sardines recipe These sardines just melt in the mouth with a burst of herby flavour. They are a doddle to prepare and only take 10 minutes to cook. They are ideal as antipasto, as part of a buffet or a main fish course. I developed the stuffing from ingredients I had left over from…

  • WMF ‘Perfect’ Pressure Cooker review

    A pressure cooker is an essential item for every kitchen. If I could only have one cooking vessel, it’d be a pressure cooker. They are versatile, easy to use, energy-efficient and help you cook delicious, healthy and quick meals. I needed wanted a replacement for my old Prestige pressure cooker. And, thanks to a Twitter…

  • Food for your ears: podcasts

    It’s been a while since I’ve written here. The first half of 2014 was pretty full on finishing design & proofs for my book, then its launch and aftermath. Home and garden deserved and needed some proper attention. So writing took a back seat from the summer onwards. My return was a tad delayed when…