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Ramsons

pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193
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The limited opportunities for exercise during this Covid lockdown led OH and me to a lovely walk today along a local lane.  The sun shone, the birds sang and it was a really nice quiet walk.
Then we happened across a bank of Ramsons - beautiful wild garlic in abundance.  I picked a large bunch, brought it home and made pesto (with ground almonds from the store cupboard in the absence of pine nuts).
We shall return to that lane - but I wondered if anyone had some successful recipes other than pesto for my foraging, please?

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Go to the BBC Good Food website and put wild garlic in teh search box.   Loads of ideas.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    We had chicken and ransom pasta for dinner last night. It was from my tame wild garlic supply though rather than the proper wild stuff. We normally use it in omlettes but eggs are a precious resource at the moment.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193
    Thanks for the advice - I shall follow it up and may experiment a bit, too.   
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The ransom pasta was so good we had it again last night.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It isn't growing much round here yet, but my girls used to bring it back to the house when they were little, as it grew next to the wood across from our old house.  :/

    Like the taste of garlic, but not the smell. It's got worse as I've got older too. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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