Best wild food of the year

[Tony]

I want to know what was the best wild food people have had this year :?: :?:

 

[Tony]

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

 

[Roger Gregory]

Wild raspberries, they seem to be quite rare so they are an absolute treat.

Blackberries are always good, so are wild strawberries.

Roger

 

[Tony]

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

 

[Roger Gregory]

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]

Irritating bird pie :twisted: with thick pastry. Had to cook it myself because the missus didn't want to know, typical

 

[bagman]

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

 

[MartiniDave]

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]

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

 

[martin]

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.

 

[Raz]

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!

 

[martin]

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.

 

[george]

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]

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]

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]

Hi...

Blackberries.......... :biggthump :biggthump
They're just the best. Best raw.... i think! :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... :***: !!

 

[Adi007]

I'm partial to the odd beech leaf!

 

[TheViking]

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

 

[RovingArcher]

A Valley Quail wrapped in bacon and slow cooked over an open fire with rose hips on the side.

 

[martin]

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.