Denis and I stayed in a cottage on a farm in Bedfordshire that was surrounded by rapeseed fields. Lovely! We always seemed to meet the same male pheasant coming out of the field every morning as we left on our explorations.
In Canada it’s called Canola, and was bred here to be able to produce (a healthy) oil for human consumption. The name was changed to be more marketable, and is widely used in Canada because it’s a good unsaturated cooking oil, but I don’t think as much anywhere else.
The colour’s beautiful, the smell awful! A chef on Woman’s Hour was reccomending cold pressed rapeseed oil for salad dressings, says it’s delicious. Must be cold pressed.
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Denis and I stayed in a cottage on a farm in Bedfordshire that was surrounded by rapeseed fields. Lovely! We always seemed to meet the same male pheasant coming out of the field every morning as we left on our explorations.
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I’m not too keen on the smell though! We have a male pheasant regularly patrolling our garden, but I’ve not seen him in the rape.
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awww, don’t ruin the lovely scene but telling me it smells bad…lol
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Just gorgeous. I love the colors!
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I’ve just returned from rambling on the Sussex Downs where we saw plenty of this!
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In Canada it’s called Canola, and was bred here to be able to produce (a healthy) oil for human consumption. The name was changed to be more marketable, and is widely used in Canada because it’s a good unsaturated cooking oil, but I don’t think as much anywhere else.
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The colour’s beautiful, the smell awful! A chef on Woman’s Hour was reccomending cold pressed rapeseed oil for salad dressings, says it’s delicious. Must be cold pressed.
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I agree, the smell is not too pleasant but the colour against the blue sky is lovely.
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Simply gorgeous even if everyone says it smells bad!
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