Category Archives: Recipes

Recipes from all over the world I have tried in my travels. Recipes for seaweed, foraged salads, jams, jellies, marmalades, preserves, pancakes, pickles, wines, vinegars, cordials, breads, anything that I come across!

Fermenting ramsoms and tri-cornered leeks 

How to make wild foraged three cornered leek and ramsom sauerkraut Continue reading

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Helping out at a wild foods cookery school in Cornwall, Penzance

Assisting at a foraging and cookery school in Cornwall, learning to cook fish, rabbit and seaweed. Continue reading

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How to make wild garlic pesto (vegan friendly!)

How to make wild garlic and nettle pesto Continue reading

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Pickled Alexanders, leek bulbs and flower buds

How to pickle Alexanders, three cornered leek bulbs and buds. Includes hot apple cider vinegar recipe. Continue reading

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Gorse cordial in the Cornish countryside

Foraging in Cornwall for Fat Hen cookery school. How to pick gorse flowers painlessly and a gorse flower cordial recipe. Continue reading

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Nettle Tea and the Boscawen-Un stone circle

Foraging for spring nettles and visiting ancient stone sites in Cornwall. Continue reading

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Making pickles in Andalusia 

Learning how to pickle capsicums in apple cider vinegar. Andalusia, Spain. Continue reading

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Making horta

Cooking salad greens in Basque Country. Healthy dandelion, stinging nettles and lamb’s lettuce recipe. Continue reading

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Kiwifruit tart recipe, how to use up extra kiwi fruit

Kiwifruit pie recipe, delicious lemon orange zest filling. Hour and a half to prepare, refreshing served next day cold with custard. Continue reading

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Elderberry and Apple Wine (my own recipe!)

Elderberry and apple wine I have just completed racking my first batch of elderberry and apple wine. This is an exciting step further into the unknown! I have taken all of the understanding gaining by brewing up a storm all summer and … Continue reading

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