Wild garlic
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- Jerry - Bit higher than newbie
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Wild garlic
Do you eat it? do you love it?
I do and I do..........we've been pigging on it recently..........I generally make pesto with it and put it on home made pasta just makes me feel so luxuriously healthy. I also stuffed a trout with a variation of the pesto last week I made a tortilla with potatoes and wild garlic.........my Nieghtbours walking past remarked on the smell and said it smelt delicious.........this is an achievement...........They were French and I'm English............see the English can cook
I do and I do..........we've been pigging on it recently..........I generally make pesto with it and put it on home made pasta just makes me feel so luxuriously healthy. I also stuffed a trout with a variation of the pesto last week I made a tortilla with potatoes and wild garlic.........my Nieghtbours walking past remarked on the smell and said it smelt delicious.........this is an achievement...........They were French and I'm English............see the English can cook
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Re: Wild garlic
HAHAHA - as if that were ever in doubt!!Garlic wrote:They were French and I'm English............see the English can cook
Haven't tried it - but a little birdy told me about a local source,,, and I'm hoping to visit this source on Monday when I take my car over there
I'm a garlic lover anyway - and am really looking forward to it.
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I hope you didn't get any wild ideas after looking at that website today pmsl!!! Hop to it girl
I hope you didn't get any wild ideas after looking at that website today pmsl!!! Hop to it girl
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It frezzes ok as well, well sort of. As long as you are going to use it in cooking and not as a salad leaf.
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- Jerry - Bit higher than newbie
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There's stuff that looks like chives and I think (maybe wrong) that that is wild onion the stuff I'm talking about has quite broad leaves and a single clove as a root. We eat the leaves and the root the flowers are good in salad too. The nearest thing appearance wise is lily of the valley but don't eat lily of the valley cos I think it's poisonous. You can tell them apart because lily of the valley smells like flowers and wild garlic like well garlic. It tends to grow in woods/shadey and quite often near streams/rivers it seems to like dark damp environments.........you can smell it when there's a good clump and if it's growing it's usually in a good clump......
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I found some today YAY - it smells gorgeous and I can't wait to use it... pesto sounds an interesting recipe... and glad to hear that it freezes Andy!!
http://www.pfaf.org/leaflets/garlic.php is very interesting!
Today I saw a bottle of sauce made by moniack something or other - lovely bottle and I have in the past eaten it... bit pricey at £3.50 so I decided I would find a recipe to make my own
Loads of interesting recipes here from wild garlic soup to chili spiked wild garlic!! mmmmm - think I had better take a few baskets out tomorrow. Are you 'allowed' to dig it up and replant some in own garden???
http://www.pfaf.org/leaflets/garlic.php is very interesting!
Today I saw a bottle of sauce made by moniack something or other - lovely bottle and I have in the past eaten it... bit pricey at £3.50 so I decided I would find a recipe to make my own
Loads of interesting recipes here from wild garlic soup to chili spiked wild garlic!! mmmmm - think I had better take a few baskets out tomorrow. Are you 'allowed' to dig it up and replant some in own garden???
Shirley
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You are not allowed to dig up anything without the landowners permission. Even if there is loads of it all over the place and it would aid to biodiversity in an area and there is no-one looking and you don't disturb any of the other plants that could be rare. So no you are not allowed to dig it up. I tried asking south gloustershires permission to dig up burdock recently but was declined. I do live in the middle of about 5 councils though so I will keep trying.
I like the idea of wild garlic pesto, never thought of that will have to give it a go. Nice one.
I like the idea of wild garlic pesto, never thought of that will have to give it a go. Nice one.
First we sow the seeds, nature grows the seeds then we eat the seeds. Neil Pye
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