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I want to know what was the best wild food people have had this year :?: :?: :lol:
I want to see what my signiture looks like!!
I had blackberries today and some flounder yesterday fresh and tasty. Cooked it with rice, peppers, onion, garlic, chillies and a splash of soya sauce. Yum yum yum :lol:
Roger Gregory
24-08-2003, 22:10
Wild raspberries, they seem to be quite rare so they are an absolute treat.
Blackberries are always good, so are wild strawberries.
Roger
Too true, I have only come across raspberries a couple of times this year. Loads of blackberries and Dewberries though. We've had crumbles and pies a couple of times.
I think we are going to be making Rowan berry and crab apple jam this week, should be good. The hawthorn berries are coming on as are the elderberries. Autumn's coming and it's a fine time of the year to forage :P
Roger Gregory
25-08-2003, 10:02
I had a raspberry plant all picked out to return to, I'd only taken the ripest from it, then the Forestry Commission came along and cut it down, the buggers! They probably only use that gate twice a year....
In the spring I like a few ramsons, the flavour is much more subdued than garlic, and ramsons grow in their millions in the Cotswolds.
I've been picking sloes already this year, they seem to be ripening very early. I like my sloe gin and sloe vodka :)
Roger
bearblade
25-08-2003, 12:41
Irritating bird pie :twisted: with thick pastry. Had to cook it myself because the missus didn't want to know, typical :D
the blackberries this year are some of the best I have ever tasted.
We went down to the New Forrest for the weekend and had to stop for our son to have a wee :roll:
The bramble thicket in the middle of the field was fantastic :D
MartiniDave
29-08-2003, 13:21
A quick tip for you sloe gin/vodka lovers.
Put your sloes in the freezer for a day or so. Let them defrost and you can add them to the gin without all that tedious piercing. They seem to colour the gin much quicker this way.
Whatever way you make it it is good stuff though!
Dave
Roger Gregory
29-08-2003, 19:25
I usually freeze sloes for a couple of weeks before making sloe gin. I popped a couple of pounds in the freezer last weekend.
A couple of blackcurrants squeezed their way out of a freezer bag and dropped onto the kitchen floor. After a quick rinse under the tap I popped them in my mouth, mmmmmm frozen blackcurrant .......... Ouch! They were sloes, not blackcurrants at all, part of last year's haul which I forgot to label .....
Be organised in your foraging!
Roger
I found 3 wild cherry trees this year. One had passable fruit,one very sour and one very sweet. Some of my other favourite wild foods are elderflowers eaten straight from the tree. Perch from the river, this fish has very delicate sweet flesh but very tough skin and a lot of bones.
I wandered the full length of the river last Saturday.
Got up at 5am all ready to go, didn’t realise it didn’t get light till 6.30!
I could have had some more sleep
Caught 7 trout, and on my wanderings I found some wild mushrooms.
Got home, fried them it all up, stuffed them with some onions from the garden, and covered with lots of seasoning.
Tasty!
Got up at 5am all ready to go, didnt realise it didnt get light till 6.30!
Best time for fishing, first and last hour of the day. Trouble is best time for mossies too.
The mushrooms are great this year!
Yesterday on the way home from work I managed to collect about a kilo of Ceps (bolitus edulis) and found a great clump of Hedgehog mushrooms (Hydnum repandum).
Cooked them up with some bacon and garlic and had them for dinner :-D
Celtic Dragon
16-10-2003, 13:00
Sweet chestnuts are readilly available around my shoot, within about 5 mins I had about 1 1/2 lbs. Add this to free range bunny all year round, with the other bit thrown in when I can get it eg venison. I don't find many berries to use because the horses tend to beat me to them.
Simon
MartiniDave
16-10-2003, 13:31
The best so far tis year is a brace of french partridge. Lovely roasted!
Dave
P.S. Anyone got a good marinade for pheasant breast?
TheViking
05-07-2004, 19:42
Hi...
Blackberries.......... :biggthump :biggthump
They're just the best. :wink: Best raw.... i think! :wink: :mrgreen:
Just remember!: if you eat to many raw berries of any kind, your stomach will begin to hurt like a hot firetong in the a... :***: !!
I'm partial to the odd beech leaf!
TheViking
05-07-2004, 19:57
Hi...
What i meant was that i think blackberries is the best wild food you can get at any time at the year.... ;) ;D
In Denmark the blackberries are good in the beginning of october ;) :D
RovingArcher
05-07-2004, 21:35
A Valley Quail wrapped in bacon and slow cooked over an open fire with rose hips on the side.
Young thistle shots are very good. They taste like a cross between celery and peanuts. The small nut like pad at the bottom of a spear thistle flower are good, but they are a swine to get at.
Wild apples, rosted boletus, morel stuffed with chives and goats cheese baked
boiled chestnuts mmmmmmm I'm getting hungry
MartiniDave
06-07-2004, 09:56
Greengages! Lovely!!
Dave
Blackberries I found today were delicious (yes I know it's still July, try telling the local brambles :wink: )
David
Yeah ... they're early ... and delicious!!! :yumyum:
The mushrooms are great this year!
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I found a new patch of Giant Puffballs yesterday. I also came across Bay Boletus, Honey fungus and Field mushrooms. It does look like it’s going to be a good one this year for fungi.
Yesterday I was on my knees in the woods looking at a bay boletus which was just popping through the leaf litter when I noticed a little hole a ft away with wasps coming in and out. I thought if I’m careful they’d just leave me along... haaa
Being engrossed with my mushroom I didn’t notice the first wave of wasps sneak behind me and attack my foot. With the first sting and noticing three wasps on my foot I dropped all and legged it, only to get another sting on my elbow whilst running away. :aargh4:
When I went back to get my jumper which was dropped down the path whilst I was running away I was surprised with the amount wasps still on my jumper.
Respect to the little yellow wasp
Cheers
Den :-P
I found a new patch of Giant Puffballs yesterday.
ummmm.... they go lovely stuffed with cheese and herbs....
:-)
Ed
I love them cooked with the bacon in a sandwitch. Simple but so nice.
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Cheers
Den :-P
This was a photo before i murdered it with tomato sauce.
TOMATOE SAUCE!!!!!!!
Bloody heathen!!!!! :o):
Getting lost the other day I came across the best wild strawberries I've ever tasted. Being in the middle of nowhere (well not far off the path but nobody goes there and there's no cattle) they were still intact, and they were in a south-facing field so they got plenty of sun. Some were over a centimetre thick and they were the sweetest I've ever tasted, and each time we got going again we came across another patch :-P
I also love roasted chestnuts :-P
Les Marshall
30-07-2004, 20:55
I have some growing at the end of my garden, they really are tiny, but the sweetest I have tasted!