Stinging nettles are normally a wild vegetable for the springtime and early summer, but you can sometimes find them out of season
That's what I did - and I used them to make nettle gnocchi
Sunday, September 20, 2009
By Mike on Sunday, September 20, 2009, 20:41
Stinging nettles are normally a wild vegetable for the springtime and early summer, but you can sometimes find them out of season
That's what I did - and I used them to make nettle gnocchi
Sunday, May 24, 2009
By Mike on Sunday, May 24, 2009, 20:49
Chickweed is a fast-growing plant, common on cultivated soil - it's one of the plants we spend time and energy weeding out of our salad gardens - and yet it grows lush and green when planted crops such as lettuce may struggle.
We should probably just eat the chickweed.
Monday, May 4, 2009
By Mike on Monday, May 4, 2009, 19:38
We went for a walk and picnic in the New Forest - I added a bit of freshness and zing to my sandwiches - in the form of bittercress.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
By Mike on Sunday, May 3, 2009, 21:43
3 May 2009 - Several times in the past I've intended to try eating hogweed, but have arrived too late to get the tender young emerging shoots - this time, I got the timing exactly right.
Monday, April 20, 2009
By Mike on Monday, April 20, 2009, 21:13
Spring has very much sprung - and the Cuckoo Flower is out.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
By Mike on Sunday, March 15, 2009, 21:11
"Kissing's out of season when Gorse is out of flower" - so they say. This is a wild food article about gorse flowers, which can be found at pretty much any time of year...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
By Mike on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 21:45
While we were out walking at Keyhaven, I happened to notice large amounts of Crow Garlic
Saturday, May 31, 2008
By Mike on Saturday, May 31, 2008, 21:51
I've heard so many people speak positively of stinging nettles as a food, but for some reason that I cannot properly explain, I remained very wary of the idea - imagining they'd be very nasty and just waving away all the positive reports as wishful thinking or something.
But eventually, curiosity got the better of me and I decided to give them a try.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
By Mike on Sunday, April 20, 2008, 23:57
Garlic Mustard (Also known as Hedge Mustard, Sauce-All-Alone and Poor Man's Mustard) is a common plant of hedgerows, roadsides and wood edges - and the diversity of common names suggests this has historically been a widely-consumed wild food. So... what's it like?
By Mike on Sunday, April 20, 2008, 23:35
I went out looking for morels, but found none. My trip wasn't entirely fruitless though, as I happened across a small patch of St george's Mushrooms.
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