Friday 28 March 2014

Wild garlic tapenade

Wild garlic tapenade
    We moved house last November, and although we spent our last pennies on the leaky roof, boiler and  re-wiring, it's still quite crumbly and desperately needs painting/plastering/over hauling. 
But for the moment I'm calling the decor 'vintage' and the house a 'restoration project',  so I can just ignore it while I make this blog and create Fern & Olives catering menus! 

     Anyway, to the garden which I plan to fill with herbs and some easy to grow edible things,  but at this moment in time is full to the brim with wild garlic. This is a very exciting surprise and a massive bonus! If you fancy collecting some from the woods ~  Read all about it here. 


This is what I've made so far:
Wild garlic potato farls
and...     
Wild garlic, feta, olive & pink peppercorn salad
              
     Todays recipe however is neither of these. It's for Wild garlic tapenade which is delicious and very useful for making into even more food!

60g / 2oz Wild garlic / Ramsoms       FREE
juice of 1/2 a lemon                            15p
40g walnuts                                       50p
1tsp capers                                        10p
1tsp caper vinegar from the jar            5p
7 dtsp of olive oil                                8p
1/2 tsp brown sugar                           3p
1/2 tsp salt                                        3p 

total                                                  91p
(to be honest I have just made up the prices for sugar, salt & oil if anything I think 3p is too much!) 

     Hopefully you have a blender or food processor or pestle & mortar, otherwise just a lot of fine chopping will work well,  you'll end a slightly crunchier version but equally tasty. 
So thats it, and when the wild garlic runs out you could try using other lovely leaves like water cress or rocket. But until then - here are some tasty things you can make with tapenade.

Cheddar & wild garlic tapenade, toasted sour dough sandwich. 

Wild garlic and smoked chedder pinwheel bread.

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