Well, spring has well and truly arrived - the clocks going forward coincided with Mothering Sunday and a weekend full of warm sunshine. My Mother's Day involved a gloriously long lie in, a bottle of Wicked Wolf gin (Mother's Ruin, classic) and a lovely, blustery walk on the beach with my Mum. Lots of cuddles with Imogen, lots of cups of tea and rounded off with a brilliant slow roast leg of lamb.
We're trying to learn how to eat more seasonally and this week have been planning the vegetable garden and sowing lots of seeds. Spring is tricky though, we just don't have the space that things like rhubarb and asparagus need, so rely on the greengrocers having a steady supply from local producers. Rhubarb has already arrived and I'm counting down the days til local asparagus turns up too!
So here's four of the best things we've been eating and drinking lately... starting with Sunday's lunch!
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