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!

So.....how was it for you?

Christmas and Hogmanay done and gone, time to take stock of  2012 after a bit of breathing space/perspective. 

So, good? Bad? 

For me, a bit of a mix - lots of great photo-ing (events, commissions and a glorious wedding); a fantastic holiday with family and friends in deepest Suffolk, lots of cooking and baking, catching up with old friends and relatives from distant shores; plus, on the down side, a partial toe amputation-ouch! 

Anyway, here's a tiny selection of my favourite images from last year and roll on 2013 - Enjoy!