Garden peas, picked fresh at that perfect petit pois stage of juicy, crisp sweetness, are something to experience at least once in a lifetime – and how good it would be to count on them once a year. Most fresh peas we buy with hope in the season are … [Read more...]
Elderflowers: champagne, cordial and a cake
There’s just time to make one more batch of elderflower cordial and champagne, with their inimitable fragrance of English summer – floral, yet also a little wild and very slightly musty. Nothing drinkable is more evocative of our hedgerows and … [Read more...]
A Midsummer Night’s Eve potion
There is something so magical about Midsummer Night’s Eve that it calls for a potion -- something drawn from Shakespeare's green world to induce dreams of love and pagan revelry, safely resolved with all the right embraces after a dalliance with … [Read more...]
Bullet ice cream and other strawberry tales
The most enchanting strawberries I have ever tasted were Norwegian berries, bought from the grower in a gravel-strewn lay-by on a winding road along Sognefjord on Norway’s west coast. They were pale pink and I was suspicious of their anaemic pallor, … [Read more...]
Asparagus now!
It’s here! I returned from a week away to find my asparagus bed has leapt to attention and is at risk of growing into trees before I’ve had a harvest. It really is one of the “hurry up and wait” crops: you drum your fingers for weeks in impatience, … [Read more...]
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