Crumbs to Crunch

One of life's simplest pleasures is fruit picking. There is something so relaxing yet satisfying about going out with your friends or family and collecting some of nature's goodies. I've just been on holiday in Alsace and I went for a lovely walk in a forest that had an abundance of wild blueberries. We picked so many of these little beauties, I was pondering what to do with them until I remembered Blueberry Grunt (yes, it really is called that!) My Canadian friend gave me the recipe a couple of years ago but I never got round to trying it till now. Blueberry Grunt is a traditional dessert from Nova Scotia invented by early settlers. Its unusual name comes from the sound that the cooking pot makes when steaming the dumplings. As far as I can tell, this dish is essentially dumplings in a gorgeous blueberry sauce. If you think that dumplings sounds too stodgy for summer, have no fear because they puff up a lot so are quite light. The hint of orange give them quite a fr

Hurtling through the air on a zip wire 660m in the air, trekking through a sweltering rainforest and settling for the night in an old ship container . I felt like a proper adventurer, actually I was beginning to believe that I was the female Indiana Jones...in England. Preparing for the Sky Wire England is not known for its rainforests so this adventure unfurled in the Eden Project in Cornwall. It is an absolutely fascinating place and a great one to seek adventure on your home turf. I hopped from one world to the next in the space of a couple of metres. I started off in the classic British herb garden, then found myself surrounded by lemons in the Mediterranean biome and finally I entered the tropical biome.  The herb garden and the lemon trees seemed fairly familiar but the jungle was so exciting with new sights, smells and sounds. Dwarfed by majestic trees, crawled on by ants and splashed by waterfalls, each turn of the