[arugula]

That's handy, I noticed the first one is starting to flower this morning.

[lmpd]

Wild garlic soup is delicious - I would heartily recommend everybody gives it a go before it disappears for another year!!!


 
Ingredients
Knob of butter
1 onion, chopped
1 large potato (Maris Piper or King Edward), peeled & chopped
750 ml veg stock
500 gr wild garlic leaves, washed
100 ml double cream
salt, pepper

 
Method

1. Melt the butter, and add the onion, cooking on medium heat until the onion is soft but not coloured.

2. Add the potatoes and seasoning, stirring for a few seconds. Pour in the veg stock and cook until the potatoes are almost cooked through.

3. Add the wild garlic and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Blitz the soup using a blender or hand mixer. Finally, stir in the cream and heat through.

Couldn't be simpler and as you don't pay for the wild garlic - I consider it to be FREE food!!!
 

[Ice]

Looks like I need to go for a tramp in the woods and when I find him ask where the wild garlic is.

There's a large patch of it in nearby woods and feel the need to try that recipe.

[Auntiemogs]

Wild garlic soup is delicious - I would heartily recommend everybody gives it a go before it disappears for another year!!!


 
Ingredients
Knob of butter
1 onion, chopped
1 large potato (Maris Piper or King Edward), peeled & chopped
750 ml veg stock
500 gr wild garlic leaves, washed
100 ml double cream
salt, pepper

 
Method

1. Melt the butter, and add the onion, cooking on medium heat until the onion is soft but not coloured.

2. Add the potatoes and seasoning, stirring for a few seconds. Pour in the veg stock and cook until the potatoes are almost cooked through.

3. Add the wild garlic and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Blitz the soup using a blender or hand mixer. Finally, stir in the cream and heat through.

Couldn't be simpler and as you don't pay for the wild garlic - I consider it to be FREE food!!!
 

Ooh, that sounds lovely, thankyou Impd.

According to the site with the pesto recipe, if you cut at the bottom of the leaf instead of the stalk, the leaves grow back in a few weeks, giving you a second crop! 

[Janeymiddlewife]

You can also eat the flowers -- lovely in salad 

You can also deep fry in batter, like with courgette flowers

[sarajane]

While pasta is cooking, lightly fry a couple of spring onions (or quarter onion), add prawns, a hint or two of chilli, cream and finish off with a pile of choppd wild garlic leaves.

Stir into the cooked pasta  -  Delish

[ray7]

This months Grow Your Own has a recipe for Watercress, Spinach and Wild Garlic soup.

Ray