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Wild Garlic and Blue Bells

Wild%20Garlic%20walk%2C%201.jpg We read with interest that the winner of TV Master Chef, Mat Follas is due to open his new restaurant in his own Dorset town of Beaminster and where we moved to ourselves, just a few weeks ago! (Now Beaminster is our own adopted home town and his restaurant is a mere two hundred metres away.) Having cooked a meal for the final featuring his favourite wild ingredients, it comes as no surprise to find that Mat's new restaurant will be called The Wild Garlic. We'll look forward to taking a table in June when it opens....if there are any tables available to book!

Apparently wild garlic is not so readily available to chefs unless they have access to a vegetable garden or some in the wild. But as we went on our Sunday walk from our door across the Dorset countryside we came across such vast amounts of Wild Garlic growing at the sides of the paths, it's clear why Mat Follas chose it as the name for his restaurant. One path we took from Beaminster over the hill towards Mapperton had a half mile of its borders covered with the typical white flowers and broad slender leaves. I'm sure we smelled of garlic after the walk, without even eating any. We will soon be experimenting by chopping the leaves (not the bulb) into our own cooking. It smells slightly sweeter and more gently than normal garlic. We'll try it this weekend as we receive our first guests at our new home.

Further on the walk on the hills above Maplash the path meandered through some woods with the most wonderful bluebells. It was like an enchanted garden. There is nothing to lift the spirits more than such a quiet and beautiful spot, with sun glinting through the leaves, to reconnect with the soul and enjoy nature. I freed my neck, smiled and walked on through....