Usually considered one of nature’s most annoying pests and a nuisance, nettles are in fact a lesser known superfood – a rival even to the crowned broccoli. So grab your secateurs, take some decent gloves and hunt out your nearest stingers.
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Stinging nettle soup
Chilli con carne
With the nights drawing in day by day and temperatures dropping there’s little better than the warmth of a hearty slow cooked dish. Chilli con carne brings that extra spice but what I love about this particular recipe is that there’s just enough heat without the tongue-burning bite.
Cinnamon spiced plum galette
Spiced plum galette. Filled with all the delicious flavours of the season and paired with velvety vanilla ice cream for contrast, it makes for a winning finale to any supper. Mostly though I just love how rustic and simple it is to make.
Hot smoked maple glazed salmon – Traeger
Sugar & salt plus salmon is a pretty good start. Add a bit of maple syrup, some wood chips and give yourself a few hours and you’ll have something spectacular: hot smoked salmon with a maple glaze.
Chicken Yoghurt Garlic & Rosemary kebabs – Thuros
I always thought it was odd that people cooked with yoghurt. That creamy, soft, delicate breakfast dish seemed so incongruous with anything hot. But mix a few staple herbs and good old fashioned organic chicken breasts to make chicken kebabs and you are in for a real winner with all the family.
Classic hot cross buns
Whether you’re a raisin enthusiast or not, few can deny the smell and sight of toasted Hot Cross Buns stuffed full of fruit and spices and spread with generous lashings of butter isn’t all but essential in the house come Easter.
Sludgiest fudgiest dark chocolate brownie
Grab a spoon, ladle on some cream with a dollop of ice cream and dig in to a chocolate brownie – far too delicious for anyone’s good.
