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food + forage
Cooking, recipes, and foraging for supplies (and food!) is a way to reconnect with yourself and your art


Celebrating Imbolc | Sunshine Tarts
This year, we decided to celebrate Imbolc by making what the girls call “sunshine tarts” – pretty much they are lemon curd tarts, but I…
Elora Viano
Feb 12, 20242 min read


Making Apple Juice
In the autumn we harvested apples – so many different varieties – with our local Wildlife Watch. It was great fun learning about the different…
Elora Viano
Jan 16, 20241 min read


Painted Leaves
Autumn is finally here and I had the chance to finally do something I have been wanting to do all summer – paint some leaves!…
Elora Viano
Nov 24, 20231 min read


Strawberry and Lavender Jam Recipe
Every year we go to the strawberry patch at Syston Farms to collect bucket loads of strawberries. And, every year, we stuff ourselves until we…
Elora Viano
Oct 20, 20222 min read


Dandelion Cookie Recipe | Vegan
‘Tis dandelion season and that can only mean two things: Gardeners complaining about all the “weeds” cropping up in their garden and Foragers doing the…
Elora Viano
Apr 24, 20222 min read


Wild Garlic Pesto with Fresh Pasta
It is wild garlic season here in the UK, and there is a lot of tastiness out there for the picking! I suggest you steel…
Elora Viano
Apr 11, 20223 min read


Slow Cooker Chilli and Corn Bread
One of my favourite things in life is food. It always evokes a sense of nostalgia for me, of childhood comforts, teenage angst, university travels,…
Elora Viano
Jan 31, 20222 min read
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