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Green shooting stars!

Wild garlic time again!  Hooray!  It's fresh, it's greener than green, and because the leaves are so young they are super strong in flavour!  The pesto I made nearly knocked my socks off so I went a bit easy when adding it to the tagliatelle.  I had no idea what we were going to have for supper tonight, until we went for a walk this afternoon!  A bit of divine intervention there I reckon.

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  1. That looks really yummy...perhaps you should take people on foraging walks?
    I had to laugh as I got to the first picture and spent a few moments looking for an animal amongst the leaf litter and green stalks....then decided to press READ MORE....wild garlic. Ha Ha directed at me.

    Supper looks really good! xx

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    1. Well to be fair 'look who's back' does sound like a person or living thing! I did deliberate over that for a while. Maybe I will change the heading! It hasn't sat well with me from the start! xx

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  2. No! Don't change it...who doesn't love one of those 'find the' in amongst a pile of leaves, a wood pile or a tree. It's quite a cunning way of making the reader, read! Great work xxxx

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