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DATE: 2018-05-05
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
It was the Dirty Weekenders' annual charity ceilidh last Thursday, and there was a raffle to raise money for the Scottish Wildlife Trust, so I decided to make some pesto as a raffle prize. I got all the leafy ingredients from Roslin Glen, which is a Dirty Weekenders project location, and one of my favourite places in the world.
I collected Allium ursinum (Ramsons), Allium paradoxum (Few-flowered Leek), and Allaria petiolata (Garlic Mustard), all of which are really easy to identify and in full growth at the moment (late April). I used the following recipe:
# Ingredients
Few flowered leek:
Garlic mustard:
Ramsons:
The finished pesto:
Bonus flower, a Grape Hyacinth (Muscari sp.):