Posts filed under 'Photography'
Spring is here, brining with it lots of wild flowers, many of which are edible. Here is a selection I found yesterday. Click on an image to enlarge.
Hawthorn flowers are a good flower to start with, they don’t have a strong flavour. White dead nettles are another easy flower, not too strong and can be quite sweet. They are not related to stinging nettles so they won’t sting you!
Dandelion flowers can be a bit bitter and can take a bit of getting used to, but I like them now. Wild garlic (ramsons) flowers have a delicious sweet garlicky flavour while Jack by the hedge flowers have a stronger flavour - garlic and mustard with a little bitterness.
As always, take care when picking wild food and make sure you are certain about what you are eating.
April 23rd, 2008
Here are some photos from last years trip to Lithuania. Click on any image to enlarge.
April 17th, 2008
The wild garlic (ramsons) is just coming into flower. The leaves are great in salads or made into pesto.
The flowers are delicious, they have a strong garlic flavour with a nice touch of sweetness and creaminess.
Tulips are beautiful, this is taken in Nunhead Cemetery. According to Twinkel’s article in the latest Funky Raw magazine they are edible but somehow they look too good to eat!
I don’t know what this is but it is very pretty. It’s in Peckham Rye Park.
(Click on any photo to enlarge.)
April 16th, 2008
Here are some photos I took about a week ago when the sun was shining. Click on any image to see the larger version.
March 22nd, 2008
It’s been a while since I last posted, I’ve been at the Funky Raw festival and then Festival of Life. Back to my reasonably normal life now so maybe a few more posts! One of the things I love about my job is that I only sell products that I really value myself and want other people to share, so I am really excited that I am now selling Tony Wright’s book Left in the Dark and the Anastasia series by Vladimir Megre. Both are massively important in different ways (follow the links to read more about both). Tony’s book explains from a scientific view what is happening with our brains and Anastasia gives us inspiration for living in harmony with nature.
Here are a few photos from the festival, I’ll put a full album on the Funky Raw site soon, if you have any photos you want me to include, please send them over.
Beautiful face painting by Mary
Chan Yu’s Oriental Food Prep demo (assistedby Carme)
Music from Harmony by the fire
September 7th, 2007
The weather over the weekend was beautiful! I went walking and took these photos:
February 6th, 2007
Rose hips are the fruit of the rose plant. There are many different varieties but the one most often found in the wild is the Dog Rose (Rosa canina), pictured below. Rosa rugosa has larger, rounder hips. I was eating rose hips in the Autumn but I found them quite tart and the little hairs on the seeds could be a problem, but I’ve found that now is the best time to eat them. They are so much sweeter now and it seems the hairs are less of a problem. I pick the hip then kind of squeeze the seeds out without losing too much of the flesh.
Rose hips are extremly high in vitamin C in a form very useful to the body and have high levels of calcium, iron and vitamin A. They also contain selenium which can be hard to get on a raw diet.
January 11th, 2007
I’ve been on holiday to Spain and France for a couple of weeks. I was half planning to do a bit of a photo blog as I travelled, but I forgot the lead for my camera so couldn’t do that, but it migth have been for the best so I didn’t spend the whole of my holiday on the computer! So here are a few of the best shots from my trip.
I started out in Orgiva where I used to live but didn’t really take many photos, so the first couple are in Zaragoza, northern Spain:
This is near Jaca, Spain, which is on the edge of the Pyrenees, I went on a couple of good walks around here:
And this is near where my parents live in south west France:
November 14th, 2006
There is a nature reserve just round the corner from where I live but it is permenantly closed. Well, until today, when it was open for a couple of hours in the afternoon, so I jumped at the chance to go and have a look. Here are a few photos, click to enlarge:
October 8th, 2006
