Thai Coconut Curry

This was a first attempt at this kind of recipe and I was pleased with the results. The consistency was great, although I will definately experiment a bit more with the spices:

  • water from a young coconut (a bit more than half)
  • flesh from young coconut (maybe a quarter of the coconut)
  • 1/2 red pepper
  • 1 small avocado
  • 1 stick of lemon grass
  • fresh chili
  • fresh ginger
  • 1 tsp coriander seeds
  • 1 tsp cumin powder
  • dried basil (maybe 1 tsp, I didn’t measure it)

Everything except the avocado went into the blender and was blended up, then I added the avocado and blended a bit more. Depending on what your blender is like, you might want to grind the coriander seeds first (or use ground coriander which I would have done if I’d had any).

Hawthron and Borage

Spring is here and wild food is appearing everywhere. Now is the perfect time for eating hawthorn leaves, they are young and tender and very tasty.

Hawthorn Leaf

Hawthorn leaves are supposed to be good for the heart and circulatory system. (See info on PFAF website.) Later in the year, you can eat the flowers and in the autumn, the little fruits.

Borage is also in abundance now. Edit: Thanks to the comment from Katrina I’ve now correctly identified this as Green Alkanet, Pentaglottis sempervirens, which is a member of the Borage family, Boraginaceae.

Borage

The leaves are a little prickly, but once you get used to them, they are good to eat, they have a flavour some people say is like cucumbers. The flowers are also edible, great for adding a bit of colour to a salad.

Borage leaf closeup