supplementing Christmas dinner

[Tony]

Do any of you forage for anything for Christmas Dinner? I can't say we do, although there's a few pheasants out the back so maybe ......

It could be stuff you've gathered earlier in the year and you're going to use..Toddy and BR probably have chutneys or some other wonderful thing they'll get out, any others?

 

[John Fenna]

Sloe Gin and Blackberry Vodka after dinner, perhaps some Birchsap wine before.....

 

[Tadpole]

Do any of you forage for anything for Christmas Dinner? I can't say we do, although there's a few pheasants out the back so maybe ......

It could be stuff you've gathered earlier in the year and you're going to use..Toddy and BR probably have chutneys or some other wonderful thing they'll get out, any others?

I've a bottle of sloe port, a couple of bottles of raspberry gin, and sloe gin. but for the evening (I'm working during the day) we're having crabb apple and blackberry unside-down sponge, followed by chopped cobb nuts with melted brie on toast.

 

[Hugo]

For years now I have collected road kill pheasants, (used to shoot as well). I save some for Christmas dinner,. Lovely grub.
Only just finished last years scrumped apples, and this years as well, should have saved some for Christmas.

 

[MartiniDave]

Sloe port?
Never tried that, how is it made? A variation of the sloe gin method?

Dave

 

[Tadpole]

Sloe port?
Never tried that, how is it made? A variation of the sloe gin method?

Dave

Yes, I've never made it before, but I made a gallon of port and thought after the first taste it may be a bit insipid, so bunged in to a 2lt bottle a zilo of berries (they may be bullaces) and 500grs of sugar, it's been sitting in the dare for 4 months hopefully it will be ok.

 

[Melonfish]

i'm going to head out and see if i can't bag some pheasants this christmas and do a roast of my own, saves me attempting to eat the mother in laws turkey which ends up dryer then a packet of silica gel.

 

[Bushwhacker]

Not sure yet, I've got a Boxing day rough shoot so it could be anything.

 

[Cael Nu Mara]

venison shot by me
Pigs in pheasants (like pigs in blankets but with a thin pheasant blanket) Our pigs and pheasant shot by me.
sloe gin
and home grown veg


lovely


Sam

 

[gregorach]

Doesn't really count as foraging, but I've got a pretty promising crop of sprouts on the allotment, a sack of homegrown tatties, and several jars of pickled runner beans... Ma has already acquired a brace of pheasant, but I'm not sure exactly where from.

 

[tjwuk]

Christmas dinner as supplied by one of these, home hatched and grown,
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Usually followed, boxing day, or New Years day by a road kill Pheasant, (roads permitting) or rabbit supplied by some lamping!

Um um.

 

[Iona]

Mmmmm... getting hungry now!

Sloe and bullace gin... gorse wine (if it turns out to be any good!) crab apple and chilli Jelly for the cold meats, and the fruit from the rumtopf for desert. trying to think what else I could rustle up... still some wild herbs around so they'll get used somehow, and pasnips from the garden... oh and MASSES of dried cep from our bumper haul this year... not sure how they're going to feature, but I'm sure we'll find a way!

Love to hear of any ideas I haven't thought of...

 

[Chopper]

Do any of you forage for anything for Christmas Dinner? I can't say we do, although there's a few pheasants out the back so maybe ......

It could be stuff you've gathered earlier in the year and you're going to use..Toddy and BR probably have chutneys or some other wonderful thing they'll get out, any others?

You never know, some of the members may send you some samples of their foraging as a christmas thank you.