Life & Cooking

Scotch eggs are a perfect way to incorporate wild garlic, you can get creative with what you add to your sausage mix but let the wild garlic be the dominant flavour and you won't regret it. ingredients: Eggs (extra for coating) Sausage meat wild garlic Oil (I used duck fat but any oil that can handle high heat will do) Bread crumbs Boil your eggs for 7 minutes (8 min for hard boiled) then add to cold water to stop them cooking. Chop the wild garlic and add to the sausage meat, you can add what you like at this stage... get creative. Cut some clingfilm and lightly oil the surface, flatten out your sausage meat, add the peeled egg and make sure it's completely incased in the meat. Coat in beaten egg and then breadcrumbs and repeat for an extra crunch. Heat your oil until a cube of bread turns golden brown in 1 minute and then add your eggs and cook for 6 minutes until they also turn a nice golden brown. Place on kitchen roll or a wire rack to cool slightley and then serve. These will keep in the fridge for a couple of days and make great picnic food. ENJOY!

The Strid is a small stretch of river on the River Wharfe which runs through Strid Wood at Bolton Abbey in the mighty North Yorkshire. This stretch of river fascinates me and scares me in equal measure, it can look tranquil and unassuming and that's what makes it so scary. This is the sort of river I'd usually swim in, and if it wasn't for the warning signs and the common knowledge of how dangerous it actually is, I'd have my budgie smugglers on ready for my last ever dunking of the junk. I hope you're keeping out of trouble and looking after one and other.