Pea Risotto with Wild Garlic ⁣

Main Course, Spring

Pea risotto with wild garlic, making the most of a box of risotto rice and a bag of frozen peas when not much else is available. Hello, how is everyone doing? I’m not going to use this space to talk about the current Coronavirus pandemic, as so much has been...

Roasted Beets & Radish with Freekeh, Quick Pickled Onion & Blackberries

Salad, Summer

Enjoy a freekeh salad with roasted beets & radish, quick pickled onion & blackberries, to celebrate the end of summer foraged blackberries and to explore a tonne of flavours and textures in one bowl. A couple of summers back I created this vibrant freekeh...

Fennel, Orange and Olives with Harissa

Salad, Summer

This salad of fennel, orange and olives with harissa packs a punch with its chilli dressing. It can be eaten as a side dish to fish or sprinkled with feta and served with bread and houmous for a lighter main.  This simple fennel, orange and olive salad recipe is...

Purple Sprouting Broccoli & Ricotta Puff Pastry Tart with Olive & Wild Garlic Tapenade

Light Bites / Soup, Spring

This simple purple sprouting broccoli & ricotta puff pastry tart topped with olive & wild garlic tapenade, makes the most of hungry gap star purple sprouting broccoli and foraged wild garlic.  We’ve sailed past the spring equinox so surely spring should...

Sweetcorn and Yellow Pea Flour Fritters, with Sweet Potato Wedges & Radish, Tomato and Lime Salsa

Main Course, Summer

A tasty late summer supper dish, these sweetcorn and yellow pea flour fritters are delicious served with sweet potato wedges spiked with cayenne pepper and a zingy radish, tomato and lime salsa.  Summer to autumn, sandals to boots, vest tops to t-shirts to light...