Foraging Challenge

I like to do a little bit of Foraging - so count me in :-)


My favourite foraging is Rose Hips to make cordial and Bilberries- do you plan to do a Recipe daterbase ??

Aldahbra wrote: »

I have changed the link so hopeful it will work correctly now

I thought that it would be really useful to have a database of recipes and of items which are available in each month. If there is enough interest I will find out how to do this. I have never set up a thread before so I'm completely new at this.

Wow! That would be a cool idea:j

Sounds tricky but the old style recipe index is pretty useful!!

Thanks for starting up the thread. I was a bit chicken to go for it

I've just had a sea beet omelette. Made the usual way, but my foraged sea beets were finely chopped and added to the seasoned eggs then topped with cheese and whammed under a hot grill for the last minute or so.:)

A nice idea would be for folks to upload pics as much as poss. I love to see them and I get loads of inspiration from other's successes.

Hope you enjoy the rose petal jam recipe!
I can always repost it on here if others request it.

Shame the weather is so bad today. Too wet for serious foraging. I wanted to look for alexanders but it is torrential!

Maybe tomorrow!

I passed a little bookshop today and looked for Mayer's book and the hedgerow book but to no avail. Guess I will be browsing on eBay later. The Hedgerow book has rave reviews.

Jj

Does my hubby bringing home rabbits count? They grow wild

I love the idea of a foraging thread! I love foraging, but wouldn't say I do it as often as once a week.

My big tip for this time of the year for those who live near the sea is marsh samphire - absolutely delicious boiled or steamed served with a knob of unsalted butter! I'm hoping to do more seaside foraging, including being brave enough to make shore crab soup with all the shore crabs that the children catch and I've recently bought (but not yet tried out) a prawn trap, so I'm hoping to be eating foraged prawns soon too! I'm also interested in other seafood, but I need to wait until later in the year for that, and I need to learn a bit more about it too. The best book I've found so far for seaside foraging is "Edible Seashore", but I'd love recommendations on other books, as I'm still a beginner at the seaside stuff!

I do a bit of non-seaside foraging, for which "Food for Free" is my bible, but tbh I find a lot of stuff needs to be made into jams/jellies or wine etc, so I need to make sure I have enough time to deal with whatever we forage - I like to be 100% sure that I know what I'm feeding the family, so I tend to stick to the obvious - elderflowers/berries, blackberries, chestnuts,rosehips etc

We're just coming to the end of the wild strawberries in our garden at the mo (tiny and take ages to pick enough to do anything useful with, but a lovely strong scented flavour) so I guess that would be my foraged item for this week...