what have you been foraging?

[woodstock]

Today Fi and I had a stroll along the beach found some sea beet,samphire, a I phone which on the way to return it to the owner we picked some St Georges mushrooms and found a dead fox which was just about edible but we had nothing to carry it home in.

 

[punkrockcaveman]

Been a while since I've updated this thread but I've been in contact with lots of wild food since! Sea bass, pouting, dogfish plus sea beat and sea lettuce from a trip to Cornwall, and from local haunts nettle, rosebay willowherb, silverweed and dandelion root, jack by the hedge, thistle root and ramson flowers. Plenty of trout too, finally got round to building a hot smoker. Hot smoked trout is fantastic!

 

[Robson Valley]

Still early here. Most fruit shrubs are just done flowering so there will be a dozen different things to pick, starting about 6 weeks from now. Pick til you're bored.
I've repurposed several old gasser BBQ as smokers (ribs, chickens, corn, potatoes, etc.) with apple wood that everybody likes.

Would very much like to see how you set yours up. Mine require about 10 minutes with a pair of bolt cutters.

 

[KayakFisherFinland]

Spruce syrap is next on the list, the new growths are just the right size.

 

[punkrockcaveman]

Too early for fruit here too, elderflowers have started coming out recently.

Nice! I've only used pear wood so far, from two attempts. My smoker is so simple you wouldn't need a pic, but I will try later. Essentially just a large steel cooking pot, chips in the bottom, piece of willow jammed accross high up to form a hanging bar, then I sit it on top of a pocket wood burner stove

 

[Robson Valley]

Clever trick, PRCM. Wasn't expecting field kit. Easy to imagine how well that works.
I can taste some trout, seasoned with some sort of fruit-wood smoke.

 

[Janne]

I am off now to forage at my local coffee shop, Paperman's, for a bowl of Todays Special soup, a full fat Pepsi and a Doppio Espresso with a tiny dash of hot Soy milk.

 

[baggins]

Loads of Elder flowers this weekend, now full of elder and lmd cheesecake, mmmmmmmmmmm, cheeeeesecake!
Also have some hogweed flower heads, wild rose flowers and some fairy ring champignons. Loads for goodies.

 

[woodstock]

Second lot of snails nearly ready for the table.

 

[Olly]

Elderflowers for elderflower champagne ...

 

[Toddy]

Elderflowers here too. Some to dry for tisanes, but heads dipped in batter and quickly fried, and given a quick shake of sugar, make a really tasty pudding.

This past few days I have had…
wild strawberries,
pignuts,
lesser celandine,
wild onion bulbils,
bittercress,
dandelions,
dockens,
bistort,
chickweed,
sticky willie (aka cleavers?)
fat hen (very young, very tasty )
wood millet seeds,
pendulous rush seeds,
tea from blackcurrant, strawberry and raspberry leaves,
wild oregano,

I love this time of year

M

 

[JamPan]

Seeing although it's been so humid in Yorkshire recently, there was a good stock of oyster mushrooms in the local forest on Friday evening. It also felt like I was getting pelted by small green pine cone cores from the squirrels too.

 

[Toddy]

Oh nice Oyster mushrooms are good food

M

 

[baggins]

Woohoo, got my first batch of blackberries today. Love them in jam, pies and made into syrups and flavoured vinegar. Looks like its going to be a good year for berries, the elders are already laden with a lot of fruit. Going to be a busy Autumn in the kitchen.

 

[Snufkin]

Scored a nice giant puffball on the way home from work on Tuesday. Just a little under football size. And a couple of birch boletus on my day off, I don't usually see them this early. Also a handful of wilding plums.

 

[woodstock]

Got a few kilos of red and yellow wild plums some for home brew some for jam.

 

[woodstock]

Today we collected about a kilo of samphire in about 15 mins, seems to be no sea buckthorn this year in our locality.