Any foragers on here?

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I love the idea of foraging, it can be hard work or you can stumble on something delicious by accident.

I'm thinking of doing a course for these guys, http://www.fathen.org

Sounds pretty amazing as to what I could learn, also having taken up fishing recently I'm enjoying the spoils of my days out.

Went surfing with my boy today (he's 6 and just joined a local surf life saving group) and there had obviously been some big surf as the beach was covered in fresh seaweed, on exploring it was full of fresh wild muscles, so tonight we are having steamed muscles with white wine and onions with crusty loaf.


Any other keen foragers here on overclockers?



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Not yet, I've done the usual blackberry and mushroom picking before. Planning to expand, away with work for two weeks, but when I get back planning to get some fishing kit (see thread in GD) and also purchased

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The course sounds very good, seems to be more focused on plants. Be nice as they show pictures of a breach to do a bit of seafood like clams and other easy catch seafood.
 
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Glaucus is looking into getting into foraging and fishing. I'd love to go on a course like that, but don't think it's particularly popular in inner city Glasgow! When in the countryside, I do eat berries and fruits as I'm walking but haven't ever gone out with the intention of getting my dinner.

I've always wanted to make elderberry wine and nettle champagne though.
 
Read the thread title as "Any foreigners in here?" and was expecting lols

My wife has been known to collect nettles for the awesome soups and curry she makes
 
I have the edible seashore book its a good read! The other will be mine when I get round to ordering.
 
I enjoy foraging for seafood, usually in a remote car park wer-haaaay

Foraging is one of those things that's very much a zeitgeist fad, but in reality most of the time you waste foraging negates the cost saving, not to mention the fact that most of it tastes like buttholes. Albeit you get some fresh air and have a nice walk, but probably several dogs have urinated on your din-dins. Larvely.
 
Well that's one way of looking at it...but there is quite a few hippy types that are self sufficient down here in Cornwall and from what I've tasted none of it tasted like buttholes hehe. What I'd like is to go fishing, find some beach side herbs and cook them together, sounds perfect to me.
 
Loads of blackberries around here during the autumn time so I forage quite a few of those, mushrooms (including magic ones!:p) quite plentiful also. Got an egg plum tree in the garden but I can't say I'm a massive fan of them, the wasps & birds tend to eat most of 'em anyway. There's probably loads of other edible stuff lurking in the hedgerows and fields but I haven't yet reached the level of hunger that would drive me to investigate more thoroughly, the way the bank balance seems to be going these days though means I may have to brush up on the old foraging skills at some point.:D

edit/ If I had a gun I'd could hunt pheasant, rabbit, squirrel, even deer, it's all virtually right on the door step. Foxes and badgers around too but not sure what they'd taste like!:eek: Not much of a fisherman myself, but The River Avon is 100 yards away so I dare say I could catch a trout or 2 if the need arose, river caught fish has always tasted a bit earthy to me though so I've never gone out of my way to catch my own.
 
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Yep, pick up a few things throughout the year. In no order:

Blackberries (mainly for blackberry wine)
Elderberries (elderberry wine)
Sloes (sloe gin)
Chestnuts (roasted)
Cobnuts (add to cakes, muesli etc)
Crab apples (added to wine and cider for tannin)
Apples (though they are scrumped from work and from a friend's neighbour)
Elderflower (elderflower cordial and elderflower champagne)
Nettles (will get this year for nettle beer or nettle champagne)
Cherries (eat as-is)

Before we moved, we had the local area cased out for all the fruit trees, blackberry bushes and chestnut trees. We probably won't get a great stash this year until we've found all the good local spots, but I've found the local blackberry spot, I know where the chestnut trees are and I can get elderflower, elderberry and the crab apples at work. There are awesome fat crab apples outside Herne Hill velodrome.

Robbie G said:
Usual rubbish from Robbie G
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Yawn. Why don't you stop posting in the food forum? You never have anything useful to contribute.
 
Jonny69 said:
Yawn. Why don't you stop posting in the food forum? You never have anything useful to contribute.
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I most certainly do thanks very much. I've started plenty of decent threads and contributed in a variety of ways. You are simply too immature to deal with a different opinion, which is fine, but stop dragging me into your issues and post somewhere else instead yourself.

Or perhaps all food threads should only be full of people with exactly the same view? Precious :rolleyes:
 
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If I had a gun I'd could hunt pheasant, rabbit, squirrel, even deer, it's all virtually right on the door step.
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You don't need a gun for pheasant, just a cheap bottle of whiskey to soak the grain (overnight), then feed it to the birds.

Caught many pheasants that way.:)

Used to get pheasants in my garden, started with ordinary grain for a few days to get them use to feeding (word soon got around), then start using whiskey grain.

works with alcohol-soaked raisins as well.

Easy to catch them,as they are unable to fly.
 
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Nightglow said:
You don't need a gun for pheasant, just a cheap bottle of whiskey to soak the grain (overnight), then feed it to the birds.

Caught many pheasants that way.:)

Used to get pheasants in my garden, started with ordinary grain for a few days to get them use to feeding (word soon got around), then start using whiskey grain.

works with alcohol-soaked raisins as well.
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Maybe I'll try that one day, bought a pheasant from local farmshop the other day, not something I normally buy/cook but thought I'd give it a go, didn't turn out too well. It was very dry and every other bite I was chewing on lead shot!:eek: (amazingly I didn't break any teeth). I enjoyed the flavour of the meat though.
 
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Maybe I'll try that one day, bought a pheasant from local farmshop the other day, didn't turn out too well. It was very dry .
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Best part of the pheasant are the breasts, covered with bacon & plenty of butter & make sure they are well basted when cooking, otherwise it's rather dry.

Pheasant stew is nice, but legs can be tough & dry as old boot leather.

You want to try Pheasant breasts in Cider.:)

Recipe here: http://www.countryside-alliance.org.uk/gte/file/recipes/pheasant/gte-pheasant-6.pdf
 
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Robbie G said:
I enjoy foraging for seafood, usually in a remote car park wer-haaaay

Foraging is one of those things that's very much a zeitgeist fad, but in reality most of the time you waste foraging negates the cost saving, not to mention the fact that most of it tastes like buttholes. Albeit you get some fresh air and have a nice walk, but probably several dogs have urinated on your din-dins. Larvely.
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I am unsure why you would even post this utter, utter tripe. It's certainly lower than your usual standard of nonsense.

Foraging has been around as long as we have existed. It has perhaps been dressed up in an odd way of late, but the idea of looking for food to eat is not new, and I am amazed you think it is. How odd.

You even suggesting dogs have urinated on your dinner just shows your level of understanding and maturity on such a varied, rewarding and challenging endevour.

If you don't have anything useful to say, keep schtum!
 
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