Spring? Summer?

Well, something has arrived - sun, warmer weather, light breezes, a proliferation of bluebells, blossoms, wee beasties; green is everywhere. So, sandals on, slow saunters by the river and through the forest and wheeching round and round on the 'big green'. Breathe in, exhale, relax....

Spring Greens - Wild Garlic #3

April showers, warmer weather, much rain. Wild Garlic is abundant on the edge of the forest so for our third year we have been foraging, nibbling and cooking like it's going out of fashion.

First job - a batch of Wild Garlic Pesto - made just like normal pesto but with ramsons instead of fresh basil leaves.

Since then we've made carrot and wild garlic broth with green lentils, roasted a cod loin wrapped in wild garlic with olive oil and lemon juice, constructed a splendid pizza with wild garlic pesto instead of tomato sauce and topped with enoki mushrooms, feta, goats and mozzarella cheeses. 

There's been a plethora of wild garlic and mushroom pasta sauces, various tarts loaded with goats cheeses, mushrooms, wild garlic, some pan fried potatoes with chilli flakes, onion and wild garlic.

Aubergine, spinach and wild garlic curry is in the planning stages....it's a delicious time of year!

It's the small things....

A fruitless day wrestling with finances, so took a small stroll round by the river for a breath of fresh air. Spring seems slow in arriving, but good news, the wild garlic has come on a treat since the last visit two weeks ago. Much greenness, little buds, shoots and blossoms everywhere, if you look closely.

It's the small things that put it all in perspective.......

Spring has sprung...

...though there's still a bit of snow on the hills. It's also quite chilly still, so blooms, buds and blossoms are not yet in abundance; ditto the wild garlic, but soon. Easter has been and gone, school holidays been and almost gone. Walks, riverbanks, tree ring counting and a bit of sibling love and wrestling, some trees, mosses and 'helicopter skeletons' as Effie calls them....