Or to the uninitiated, gherkins. An easy recipe to make probiotic rich fermented dill cucumbers. Hands up, who used to ask their friends if they could eat the discarded gherkins from their [insert famous burger chain] burgers? That was me, I love gherkins! A while...
A lovely dairy free pesto using superhero kale. This version of pesto is great with pasta as well as chicken. The first week at university the vast majority of the people in my halls of residence were given nicknames by my flat. Oddly enough most were food related, no...
Wild garlic pesto is really versatile and perfect way to use up foraged finds. Why is it that when you’ve never really heard of something, you see it mentioned somewhere and then you can’t escape from reading about it EVERYWHERE? This seems to happen to me...
Inspired by Kimchi I added a bit of spice to some plain carrots and fermented them to create this spiced fermented carrot salad. Earlier this year I had my first fermentation experiment when I gingerly (get it?) left some carrot & ginger in a jar to soak away over...
Parsley is the real star of any tabbouleh. In this recipe bulghur wheat is replaced with tiny pieces of cauliflower for extra veg. When searching for some foodie inspiration I often have a good rifle through my ever expanding collection of cookbooks. Sometimes it...
Broad bean and mint dip, is a British summer time alternative to the more well known bean dip; hummus. Simply blanch your beans, and blend with olive oil. Get dipping! I made a dip similar to this, at an Italian cooking course at La Cucina Caldesi cooking school...
