What have you foraged?
Discussion
Morning all,
I thought it might be interesting for people to share what ingredients they've found in nature, as opposed to buying from a shop.
I've had plenty of Crayfish. Most of the waterways of the South East are utterly swarming with the invasive American Signal variety to the point where you can catch several dozen in a couple of hours just with the kids dangling bits of bacon on string into the water and a net to scoop them up with. They're exceptionally tasty too!
The other thing I used to get fairly frequently was wild Boletus mushrooms, but these seem far harder to find these days. My only bit of anti-EU immigrant sentiment being that the Eastern Europeans are far more into their wild mushrooms than most Brits, so there's far more competition for them these days!
I've also had blackberries and hurts, but tend to eat them on the spot rather than gather them and take them home. I've never tried looking for wild herbs or anything.
Anyone else found anything good they'd recommend looking for?
I thought it might be interesting for people to share what ingredients they've found in nature, as opposed to buying from a shop.
I've had plenty of Crayfish. Most of the waterways of the South East are utterly swarming with the invasive American Signal variety to the point where you can catch several dozen in a couple of hours just with the kids dangling bits of bacon on string into the water and a net to scoop them up with. They're exceptionally tasty too!
The other thing I used to get fairly frequently was wild Boletus mushrooms, but these seem far harder to find these days. My only bit of anti-EU immigrant sentiment being that the Eastern Europeans are far more into their wild mushrooms than most Brits, so there's far more competition for them these days!
I've also had blackberries and hurts, but tend to eat them on the spot rather than gather them and take them home. I've never tried looking for wild herbs or anything.
Anyone else found anything good they'd recommend looking for?
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