Old Style vs the USDA head-to-head challenge...

ceridwen · 31 May 2008 at 5:37AM

The site I mentioned earlier is:

www.wildmanstevebrill.com/

and there is a page on his site I mentioned earlier in the thread (page 30 of this thread, post 592 gives the direct link).

Twas on there - unless I am much mistaken.

Also try googling "knotweed edible". Various things come up, eg:

www.nps.gov/archive/hocu/html/plants.html

When I say "googling" - thought: presume you use Google as your "search engine"? Defo recommended as the best - what do you think is one of my ways I find all this stuff? heh, heh

weezl74 · 31 May 2008 at 8:58AM

Ta Ceridwen!;) We need you to keep us daft pair on our toes... Your blog's growing well, I like it a lot. Keep trying to leave you a message, but my browser doesn't display the security word right.:mad: D'oh!

Are you still thinking of going on a foraging course? I'm REALLY tempted to try it!
Don't know how I had the roots in my head! Right, stems it is. Rhubarb - esque crumble here I come! Today's the day!

ISOM, i've never heard of spanacopita, it sounded like an unpleasant symptom to me :rotfl:(Perhaps if we pick the wrong thing today, we'll have a nasty attack of spanacopita?)

curleygirlie, Hello and welcome on board! V. impressed with you for reading the whole thread, much stamina required!!!! Ta for the lovely sounding recipe, will try it.

queen of string, returning at 10.30 pm from bike ride, oooh you sound like you've got loads of 'get up and go'! I wish I could send you some of my seedlings to get you started, I've got loads! Gonna donate some to ISOM's allotment, but there's plenty more. Perhaps you and OH could cycle to Cardiff....?

Love to all,

Weezl x

In_Search_Of_Me · 31 May 2008 at 9:09AM

http://www.indobase.com/recipes/details/spanakopita.php
here we go!
Thankfuly the sun is shining! I'm just up and having a cuppa before a hive of activity

Cat litter trays to empty, washing to hang and clothes to be put on plus a mum to arrive! Guaranteed the moment I step in the shower lol!!
Ta for linky C...thnk of us at 10.30...eating cake before a forraging we go!! Where be linky to blog & info re forraging courses...I'd love to do a Hug F-W one...maily cos hes dead gorgeous but also cos hes interesting but HAS cost me a bomb in having to get organic meat, milk etc...mind you it does taste better!!

weezl74 · 31 May 2008 at 5:30PM

we came, we saw, we foraged (veni vidi foragi???)

A very amused man and his concerned and troubled friend at ISOM's old allotments steered us towards the knotweed. One laughingly said he'd look on the news to see if I'd died (!) and the other urged me to burn any leftover bits....

Now the man on ceridwen's ace link, seems to have been harvesting giant knotweed which is about an inch in girth for the young tender roots, therefore his suggestion to peel them made some sense.

Ours was a max of 4mm thick and mostly one or 2 mm thick, I honestly couldn't face peeling: there'd be nowt left. They are washed and chopped and merrily boiling away, and do smell rather like rhubarb. I shall probably blitz with sugar and then strain it to remove woody bits.

Will let you know how we get on.

N.B if this is my last post, suggest not eating knotweed!

Love and trepidation,

Weezl x (with a hint of bear grylls and ray mears...)

germish_se · 31 May 2008 at 6:13PM

Hmm, intrigued by the knotweeds...
How long do we wait before we know this was your last post though?

In_Search_Of_Me · 31 May 2008 at 8:12PM

oh no...shes not been back...now I know she was still alive at about 6 and have seen said knotweed bubbling on a weezl stove and it does smell of rhubarb but (if I may say?!!) looks like....boiling sticks! umm...hope its yummy weezl - post back to say you are still in the land of the living!
Just make spanacopita with my very own made up recipe (pinched a bit from a few recipes and cobbled)! Mum says its one of the nicest things shes eaten...aww bless! Will post piccie if & when I have energy...its all run out now! Basically you get a tin of spinach (I got one of the big ones from Indian shop for 79p), a small tub of plain cottage cheese, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, a block of feta cheese and a pack of filo pastry and approx 2 oz butter...
Drain spinach and put in pan (wok in my case) and bubble as much water off as you can. While thats doing chop the feta into cubes & drai water off cottage cheese if there is any. Then add feta & cottages cheese to spinach & mix in and add nutmeg. The simmer gently to get all water out. While thats simmering paint butter er the bottom of a square low lipped tin (or other shape but low lip is imp!) and then place filo on a damp tea towel, brush top one with melted butter on the sheet and place into the tin, buttering & layering until the base is covered. I did bits outside too and then folded them over when I then put the spinach mix in and then put a few sheets on top...you must butter each sheet & work quite quickly as it dries out. Then bake for 40 mins on medium (will check & edit later - I think I did 280) ad then cut into squares and eat! Can be eaten hot or cold! I had mine with chopped beetroot & cottage cheese! nom nom as weezl would say and added bonus is its quite healthy and despite looking fiddly only takes 1/2 hr to make

MRSMCAWBER · 31 May 2008 at 8:18PM

In search of me

That sounds lovely... I have a cookery book i got whilst i was in Kefalonia last year so let me know if you ever want that recipe...or any others..it is lovely -although some ingredients are hard to get here ...poop

In_Search_Of_Me · 31 May 2008 at 8:26PM

ooo mrs M whatcha got?!! I just sort of cobbled as all the recipes had a bit but not another of ingrediets I have IYKWIM!
Just watching Neil Diamond with mum! He's coming to Cardiff and were debating whether to go!

funkyfunkymonkey · 31 May 2008 at 8:38PM

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

ooo mrs M whatcha got?!! I just sort of cobbled as all the recipes had a bit but not another of ingrediets I have IYKWIM!
Just watching Neil Diamond with mum! He's coming to Cardiff and were debating whether to go!

You've got to go, I saw him live probably 15 years ago, he's brill :j

FFM

MRSMCAWBER · 31 May 2008 at 8:39PM

Hi there ..
On the pie front we have :-

courgette pie
cheese pie
spinach pie
spinach + cheese pie
chicken pie
leek pie
onion pie
greens pie -probably another nettle adaptation there;)
lamb pie
yannina cheese pie
minced beef pie
salt cod pie

I'm planning on working my way through as many recipes in this book this summer.. I came back from there loving very simple food..a few good ingredients, not messed with to much... before if it didn't have a dozen ingredients and 2 hours of faff i didn't think it was cooking:doh:
We are saing at the moment hoping to go back to the same place again next year :T
let me know what recipes you want and i will post them or PM them so i don't interupt the thread

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