Tuesday, 24 March 2020

Coronavirus musings!!! I have decided to document some of the goings on in this mad world...


Coconut Flour, Digestives and Nettles

We went to Morrison’s for milk, eggs and vegetables – we came out with coconut flour, gluten-free digestive biscuits and tinned salmon.  We also got a cauliflower that had been sitting lonely on an empty shelf, and a packet of rice, also the last on the shelf.  Later on as I nibbled the gluten-free digestives (that just weren’t the same) I tried to concoct a recipe that would include coconut flour, some olives we found, half an onion, some cream cheese that still looked ok, the cauliflower and maybe the tinned salmon as well.  Luckily Google has a plethora of recipes involving just about every ingredient combination possible.  Pearl barley and rhubarb salad anyone?  Scallops with apple and bacon?  Sea urchin tacos?  My boyfriend has taken to foraging on our daily walks, gathering nettles, hawthorn leaves and dock leaves, and nibbling them as we walk along.  He also gathers goosegrass which apparently can be made into an edible but somewhat stringy pie.  We may be relying on these things in the next few weeks and months.  Nettle pie with coconut flour and tinned salmon anyone?  Or a cauliflower served with a sprinkling of hawthorn and dock leaves?  But from a more serious point of view, foraging might be an alternative way to get some freely available and nutritious foodstuffs.  Just make sure you know what you are picking.  Nobody wants a deadly nightshade salad.  Now what to do with those olives?

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