Before reading another word I want you to promise me you will only go foraging for these fungi with another EXPERIENCED forager. I went out last week with a friend, David, and returned to his home to make some delicious foraged rolls for the family…
Posts Tagged ‘foraging’
Don’t Blewit – Get Clued up on Mushrooms!
Posted in 1, Going Wild, Seasonal Hedgerow Finds, Yorkshire Treasures, tagged Blewit Mushrooms, Field Blewit, foraging, foraging for mushrooms, Nettle recipes, Sausage Rolls with Blewit and Nettle, Wood Blewit on 11/05/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fresh as a Springtime Wood Sorrel Sprig!
Posted in 1, Going Wild, Seasonal Hedgerow Finds, Timesaving Tips, Yorkshire Treasures, tagged Chris Bax, forager finds, foraging, Haribo, mackerel, Noma, Rene Redzepi, taste the wild, Whitby Seafish, wood sorrel on 06/03/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Wild Cooks,
Spring is a here and the nature we all love is budding into life again after a relatively mild winter. Wild garlic shoots are peeping out, but today is all about wood sorrel and as Rene Redzepi (Chef owner of the world’s finest restaurant, Noma) recently said, “wood sorrel is the glue that holds my kitchen team together”! Another local character here in Yorkshire and a foraging buddy of mine, Chris Bax, calls it the “Haribo of the forest”!
I Cannot Believe it’s Not Conkers!
Posted in Going Wild, Seasonal Hedgerow Finds, Yorkshire Treasures, tagged casserole, conkers, foraging, ground ivy, oxtail, rosehips, sloe berries on 16/11/2011 | 2 Comments »
Has the world gone mad? I cannot believe that this autumn kids are not allowed to play conkers in school because of health and safety! Conkers has to be one of a Forager’s favourite games so I invented my own version of conker fun with the family…
Hob Knobbing with Jay Rayner
Posted in Going Wild, tagged ampleforth, critic, foraging, ginger pig, jay rayner, tim wilson, white swan on 08/12/2010 | 2 Comments »
It is not often you get an invite for dinner from a friend, sit next to a national food critic, and (as a chef) live to tell the tale afterwards!
