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Foraging in Sussex: Hunter:Gather:Cook School 2011

Photo by Nick Weston

WHAT A YEAR its been- I never expected when I started this website 4 years ago it would go from an online world of posting recipes, experiments and experiences and turn into something, real, interactive and informative.

The Homemade Ice Cream Machine

Homemade Ice Cream

Childish excitement aside, the prospect of ice cream is a wonderful thing. I must confess I was more of a sun lolly kid myself- ingeniously designed like a PG pyramid tea bag to prevent kids on a sugar high flipping the contents out onto the floor

How to make salt: Fleur de Sel… Atlantique

Mastering the basics is a must for anyone who cooks: whipping up a béchamel, making mayonnaise, pastry, ragu, stock, bread, the list goes on…

HOW TO: Find Cauliflower and Hedgehog mushrooms

Wow, what a mushroom season! As I have been spending plenty of time grubbing about the woods in search of something tasty for tea, I though I would take the vid cam out and try and capture some of my amateur tips for the amateur mushroom hunter.

Honesty boxes

High summer sees vegetable plots across the country bursting at the seams with fresh produce, most people grow enough to furnish their own tables from time to time, but there are a handful of green-fingered wizards that have taken their patches to the next level

The Cow-barn diaries?

It seems conventional living isn’t really my cup of tea… I mean, wheres the fun? Since moving out of the tree house last October I have been plotting and scheming my next move

The Treehouse Diaries: The book launch.

Considering I had a month to get a manuscript of 80000 words in, the book has come to finally come to fruition! What better time to release it than time for time – while I was building my arboreal dwelling this time last year.

Sussex Graffiti

As a person with a degree in Archaeology, I obviously have a bit of a soft spot for old stuff.

Chasing Ghosts on the flats of Little Cayman

This is somewhat a delayed post considering it took place over the back end of 2008, but I came across the photos and felt it was a worthy adventure to write about.

Wild Camping

Camping has become huge over the last few years…massive, enormous and humungous, so much so that it has diversified into categories: