Here's something I've been putting off for a long while - deliberate consumption of insects.
But the time has come! - so I caught, fried and ate grasshoppers.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
By Mike on Saturday, July 27, 2013, 21:57
Here's something I've been putting off for a long while - deliberate consumption of insects.
But the time has come! - so I caught, fried and ate grasshoppers.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
By Mike on Thursday, August 26, 2010, 23:47
While enjoying a sunny day on the beach at a sandy bay in Gairloch, on holiday in the Highlands of Scotland, we stumbled upon some cockles completely by accident.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
By Mike on Saturday, June 12, 2010, 09:11
Turn over any rock at the seaside and you're quite likely to find these little critters - they're Common Periwinkles - otherwise known simply as winkles. They are very commonly eaten - so let's see what they're like.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
By Mike on Sunday, August 16, 2009, 21:22
A couple of trips to East Wittering, Bracklesham Bay - in search of the brown shrimp.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
By Mike on Saturday, August 9, 2008, 14:43
Time to get a bit more adventurous with this wild food thing - I'm going to try eating snails.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
By Mike on Sunday, July 15, 2007, 21:59
We went crabbing down at the pontoon at Manor Farm Country Park and brought back a bucket of shore crabs to make soup.
Monday, June 4, 2007
By Mike on Monday, June 4, 2007, 21:39
June 04 2007 - kids have a day off school today, so we piled into the car and drove up to Oxford, where the river Thames is suffering from an invasion of foreign crayfish - the American Signal Crayfish - which is not only out-competing our native crayfish, but acts as carrier for a disease that kills the native crustaceans.