wild food

LINKY.V.18

anybody here remotely interested in the topic.write back and i'll start talking more specifically.

Mr Magnolia

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The Hill Billy

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Minder

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Nevyn

Also know as hunting and foraging.

smashey

Venison.

Mr Magnolia

Thaedydal wrote:

Also know as hunting and foraging.

Thanks Thaed. I was wondering.

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LINKY.V.18

Minder wrote:

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ok then well for example yesterday i went out and and picked some early blackberries and some nice chanterelles.made soup with the mushrooms and i'm making the first of my blackberry jellies.i'm not telling ya my 'shrooming secret spot because i'm pretty sure others already go there,although i've never come across them.and although i suppose going to a butchers and getting a bit of wild pigeon is technically wild food,it's only really interesting to talk about it here if you shot it yourself.so what about you guys?what do you do.write back.:)

NextSteps

I love nettle soup.

The Hill Billy

LINKY.V.18 wrote:

although i suppose going to a butchers and getting a bit of wild pigeon is technically wild food,it's only really interesting to talk about it here if you shot it yourself.

I don't quite agree with you there LINKY. I regularly get pigeon (& pheasant when in season) from a neighbour. (He has a habit of leaving them unannounced in a bin liner on our doorstep which has scared the bejaysus out of Mrs Billy several times. ) Just because I didn't shoot the pigeon myself doesn't mean that I don't appreciate where it comes from & doesn't make it any less interesting from a culinary viewpoint.

Though I'll concede that buying pigeon breast fillets from a butcher isn't quite as much fun & messy as plucking & drawing the birds yourself.

Minder

I have lived in the UK for twenty years and recently moved to Kent - am interested in making the most of the great variety of wild food available on my doorstep.

We have an abundance of cobnuts now and the sweet chestnuts are not long away from dropping. We have several damson trees in the garden. The local golf courses are good for rabbits. But I would really like to find a good spot for an eel basket - one where I can put a basket out and stand a good chance of it being there when I come back !!!

CJhaughey

Not many eels around these days, water pollution has seen the end of many populations around europe, even Lough Neagh has seen big reductions in the eel catch in the last few years.
Wild food though is fantastic, Fish, Fowl and Fungi Oh yes I nearly forgot Venison and rabbit is hard to beat.