Saturday Sourdough
vanessa kimbell style sourdough bread
food
Sprout some beans in this season of growth!
We have bags of beans! Black eye beans! Butter beans! Haricot beans! Lentils of different hues! Rosecoco beans! And now – moth beans! This latest addition is like a spherical lentil and can probably be cooked in the same way. And all these beans are seeds! Many of them can be planted in the garden. …
Nettle Season Once More – Nettle Bread revisited!
Not far away from here is the Nettlebed Folk Club and I can’t help but think about this every time I consider making bread from the new season’s nettles. The folk club is renowned for a long history of showcasing the best folk music in the UK. Unlike its near namesake, nettle bread is far …
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‘Tis the season of the Nettle! Time for Nettle Bread
One of the first herbs to appear in the spring is the common stinging nettle. Foragers everywhere start on nettle soup. But if you leave it many weeks those temping bright greens turn grey-ish and dusty, agressive looking and stinging. This year I managed to investigate before the moment had gone – not with soup …
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Venison ( Elg or Elk )– a fine slow cook
Venison is the meat from deer. Deer embraces a range of animals from moose and elk to smaller roe deer. Because venison has less fat that beef it tends to be drier when cooked. This characteristic also means frozen venison can be stored longer than beef without spoiling. The label on the brick in the …
A Busy Night at the Compost Heap
A visit to a local organic farm last winter taught me that you can compost woodchip. According to Ian Tollhurst you just spread it on the ground and turn it every 3-6 months and within two years you have compost which is good enough for potting out seeds. Thinning the trees to allow more light …
Copenhagen: The Noma legacy – Radio vs Bror?
I visited Copenhagen irregularly since the 1960s and never associated it especially with good food until Noma. Noma was founded by chef René Redzepi from El Bulli and Claus Meyer – their new restaurant replacing El Bulli’s crown as the best restaurant. Noma cuisine is supposedly ‘Scandinavian’; the restaurant’s founders have apparently attempted to redefine …
John Dory
Saint-Pierre à la Menagère This recipe seems unatributed but is copied from Sophie Grigson.
A ‘Lemen Year’
A September trip to Norway found us revisiting the area reported on here. We had been without snow before, but on previous occasions there were children to manage; this was the first time we could focus on grown-up pursuits like walking, picking berries, and chopping trees. troll Black Death Norefjell lies 3 hours drive …