#kitchenwizard

Food from one of the camp-cooked meals at Strawberry Raid 2022. Rice with peas and turmeric, surrounded by slices of spit-roast lamb and beef, and decorated with dried rosebuds. At the top, a sauce of pomegranates, raisins and spices, inspired by one in al-Warraq. Bottom centre, a turnip dish, also from al-Warraq, garnished with pomegranate seeds. Bottom right, a green sauce, again from al-Warraq, and very similar to European ones. And at top right a dessert plate of dates, lokum and dried figs.

Today's herbs, for drying. Sage, thyme and a whole lot of mint.

Sloes

A Great Pie, or the first attempt thereonto.

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The process of making colcannon, one of the very few traditional Irish dishes that’s still fairly widely eaten.