They take over your garden as soon as look at you, they sting, and they’re ugly, but wild nettles have...
Yes, we know we usually reserve this column for the slightly out of the ordinary, but what with the current...
What are they? A cultivated variety of the hazelnut, this large oval nut is at its best now. The kernels are white and milky with a fresh, nutty flavour and can be eaten as they are, on salads or in pasta, or simply roasted with salt. Toast and chop them...
The editor often arrives at Appetite HQ with fennel bulbs and fronds from her garden, where she grows them as...
The UK apricot season begins now, heralding the return of this versatile and pleasingly fuzzy little fruit. The editor favours...
Go on, be honest, when was the last time you used sorrel in a dish? Can’t remember? Us neither, yet in France, they eat this sharp, lemony green herb all the time, and we would do well to follow suit. The French use the leaves, which are either fully green...
We are now entering the height of the blood (or blush) orange season because they are their sweetest in January...
Yes, it’s not one of the most oft-served dinners in the Appetite kitchen either, but why not? Guinea fowl is...
Yes, broad beans. We know this column is usually reserved for out of the ordinary ingredients, but then it struck us that this in-season vegetable, while utterly workaday and about as exotic as a bowl of porridge is unfairly derided in too many households, and that’s not fair, because broad...
Yes, obviously you buy it in sweet shops in many forms, but liquorice is a surprisingly versatile cooking ingredient which...
Criminally under-rated, sorrel is a delicious lemony super green whose acidity adds an elegant edge to creamy dishes, eggs, potatoes...
Yes, it looks like the trimmings from a witch’s broomstick, but salsify is a good deal more tasty than it looks. Apparently, the Victorians loved this winter root vegetable, but modern foodies seem to have forgotten about it, and the fact that in flavour it echoes oyster. Yes, oyster –...
