Author: Tanja Gangar
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Wild Garlic Soup Recipe
Wild Garlic Soup Tans Way Taking a long walk on A beautiful Easter Sunday from my mother’s house in Kent. The usual picture postcard scenes of lambs and bunnies bounding across bright pastures of greenness, yellow primroses, celandines, and catkins. As we strolled through the woodland, stepping in time to birdsong, James scoured the ground…
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Wild Mushroom Lasagne Recipe
Wild Mushroom Lasagne Recipe Last Summer and Autumn my partner James, a master mushroom forager, was enjoying a particularly bumper season, bringing to the kitchen table, the most extraordinary array of wild fungi. So much so that we found ourselves often working late into the night, pickling, brining, blanching, freezing, slow cooking and even drying…
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Dover House Chutney Recipe
This recipe my mother used to make every year from the glut of apples from the old fruit trees in her garden. My sister and I used to moan about having to spend ages peeling and chopping for her pressure cooker but once Christmas came this delicious chutney always was the most luxurious accompaniment to…
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“If you can breathe, you can do yoga!”
Krishnamacharya …. as stated by the grandfather of modern yoga, Kryshnamacharya was trying to make the modern world aware of what is true; yoga practice is not just a physical experience on the mat, it’s about using the breath to stay present and not be distracted by your thoughts. It’s an ancient mindful practice that is designed…
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Enjoying the Fruits of the Larder
Last night I came home after a very long day at the work, Winter’s cold edges continuing to prickle the air and the evenings still very gloomy and dark. I made a quick stop at my local mini market to pick up a pint of milk and a bit of cheese from their cold shelves.…
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Wild Wine Presentation at Charleston Trust
Friday 15th July. 2.15pm For the Festival of the Garden at Charleston Trust, the Resilient Life team discussed the benefits of nature’s living larder and outlined creative ways to balance our lives in harmony with the seasons. We gave a demonstration on Wild Wine fermenting, from start to finish, and how to use foraged ingredients…
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Free Greens
My Dear friend Vicky, Thank you so much for your lovely letter, yes it feels like an age since we were in the woods camping and preparing food from our allotments. I love the way we combined delicious recipes and ingredients without any pre-discussion…but I think that’s what happens when you use seasonal food as…
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Art for Resilience
“… the true purpose of art is one of resilience… In other words, art expression and the creative process are really manifestations of the drive toward health and well-being” –Cathy Malchiodi PhD I’ve always loved making things out of found materials, painting furniture and customising clothing and mending things. Even before I went to art college…
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Creative Resilience & the Magic of Charleston Farmhouse
” . . . It has a charming garden, with a pond, and fruit trees, and vegetables, all now rather run wild, but you could make it lovely”. Virginia Woolf In the winter of 1916, the artist Vanessa Bell asked her sister, the writer Virginia Woolf to help her find a country retreat for herself…