June 2008 - A new supermarket price war has been declared, The weapons in this war are... sausages
One of the major UK supermarket chains announced their intention to start selling sausages for two pence each. Two English Pennies for a sausage.
Other supermarkets jumped hastily on the bandwagon, matching the offer.
Obviously, this sparked a bit of attention from the media, food critics and writers, gourmands, food enthusiasts and assorted other interested parties. Would the sausages be fit for human consumption? Would they contain any meat at all? Was this a sign of the apocalypse?
Let's find out
I've heard so many people speak positively of stinging nettles as a food, but for some reason that I cannot properly explain, I remained very wary of the idea - imagining they'd be very nasty and just waving away all the positive reports as wishful thinking or something.
Here's how you can transform ordinary bread dough (recipe link for that below) into a fantastic feast bread loaf - designed to share with friends - just tear off a chunk and eat!
I decided to have a go at capturing and taming some wild yeast for breadmaking.
Here's a recipe (and video demonstration) for making delicious Hot Cross Buns.
Paneer (or Panir) is an acid-set curd cheese, popular in India - it's similar to ricotta or cottage cheese and is easy to make.
Garlic Mustard (Also known as Hedge Mustard, Sauce-All-Alone and Poor Man's Mustard) is a common plant of hedgerows, roadsides and wood edges - and the diversity of common names suggests this has historically been a widely-consumed wild food. So... what's it like?
I went out looking for morels, but found none. My trip wasn't entirely fruitless though, as I happened across a small patch of St george's Mushrooms.
This is a really simple, fast cake recipe - ideal if you're in a hurry to create something tasty and home made.
April 12 2008 - I decided to go out in search of Wild Garlic. There are several species of wild onion or garlic that are common in the UK - I was after Ramsons.