..and we can’t wait, although someone got there before us last year, and stripped the trees bare. But this year we are keeping a close eye on them, although in all fairness they still have a couple of months yet. Cobnuts are like hazlenuts, lovely when they are just picked! We haven’t been out foraging anywhere near as much as last year, when we have we have collected a few bits, but we have been focusing on our allotment. Which has given us our first courgettes, and we have 2 types, the long thin ones, and ball type ones. The taste and texture of them is worlds apart from those in the shops that are soft and when cooked for any length of time almost fall apart. These when cooked remained really crisp, kept their structure, and still had flavour, you will now never convince me that buying food from the supermarket is the right thing to be doing.
On that note, I have also been reading about the agricultural land prices in the UK, we noticed how they were on the rise, particularly as buying a house with some land has been stretching further and further away from us. They have risen significantly, and are not slowing down, not good news for food prices, which has given us yet another reason, as though we needed one, that growing our own was the right thing to be doing.
Yesterday scrunched all the herbs we have been drying into bags, we have so much sage and lemon balm we will have to share with others, first come first served! Although I find more and more that people really don’t want them, as they don’t know how to use them, or what they can do with them! Such a shame that people are moving so far away from these natural foods, that aid our health in so many ways, and give us the ownership of it back to us.
With so many kale plants on the go, and producing copious amounts of leaves, even the dog is eating it! We have been also been putting it into salads, and stir fries, and making our smoothies green, you can’t taste it honestly, no one ever believes me until they try it for themselves! It’s such an easy way of consuming greens, honestly it’s painless!
In all of this lovely weather consuming stacks of water is vital, I’ve been making almond milk, with bee pollen in it, litres of the stuff, just blend them up, and strain if you don’t want the bits! A great way to remain hydrated, and more often than not I find that people are not drinking anywhere near enough.
I’ve discovered magnesium oil, fantastic stuff, which I have been using in foot baths to relax to, and it works, well for me anyway, everynight I have one, it just sends me straight to sleep afterwards! I will tell you more in another post about magnesium oil as I think it’s well worth using particularly if you are stressed.
Tags: allotment, almond milk, cobnuts, hazlenuts, kale, magnesium oil
