Tag: food
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Pea & Coconut Soup with Garden Herbs
As we were walking the dogs earlier this week, we noticed that one of the fields near our house- that had seemed completely bare a couple of weeks ago – is now filled with sturdy pea seedlings, curling out of the earth. It’s a familiar sight at this time of year; the area just east…
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Garden Pea & Asparagus Bruschetta
This a quick and easy post for a quick and easy recipe. At this time of year I often notice that cooking becomes a lot more relaxed than in other seasons. There’s an abundance of fresh produce that needs very little attention to coax out its quality – in my experience, a little salt, olive oil and lemon…
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Wild Garlic Hummus with Spring Crudités
As readers of any of my previous posts on the subject will know, I am more than a little enthusiastic about the Springtime emergence of wild garlic. As April arrives, the nearby woods are lush with its strap-like leaves and distinctive allium scent, and by Mid-May the woodland is dotted with clusters of white, star-shaped flowers,…
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Spring Potato Salad with Saffron Aioli
Spring is definitely here! The Hawthorne hedges that line the lanes around our house are budding with May flowers, slender acid-green leaves are shooting from the willows in the garden and our fruit trees are full of soft, trembling blossoms. Perhaps it’s because Easter was so early this year, but the season seems to have…