The Botanical Kitchen
Recipes, travel and the occasional rant
I was inspired to grow a little garlic after a visiting Mark at South West Garlic Farm last year. My garlic will never be as good as his and I won’t ever be planting the volume he does but I like the idea of my allotment being busy doing something over the winter. A few tips on planting […]
I came across the South West Garlic Farm on Twitter about a year ago. I was fascinated by their beautiful images of garlic at various stages of growth. We’ve been in touch ever since and on my recent trip to the beautiful southern coastline of Britain, I popped in to meet farmer and owner Mark […]
It’s Halloween. We cannot miss it in England It’s almost as big as Christmas as a ‘festival’. My children used to want to go trick or treating as witches but today, they’ve gone out as a Vampire Witch and a Vampire Cat. If you say the word ‘vampire’ to their generation and anyone born after the […]
This is a perfect and simple to make store cupboard ingredient. I use it in soups, dhals, chutneys, tossed through pasta or simply on toast. The garlic flavour mellows as it keeps so leave it a couple of weeks before you eat it unless it’s Halloween and you need to ward off those evil spirits! […]
It doesn’t smell like garlic. It doesn’t taste much like garlic. It looks like garlic but it’s black?! Black Garlic? Hmmmmm…. I must admit I was rather dubious like most people who probably walk past it in the many places this is now available. But I was also fascinated at the same time. It is […]