- Location
- London and Connecticut
I’ve just found a small chicken of the woods which I shall be dispatching this evening. It’s amazing what you can find in London if you keep your eyes open.
Food Foraging 2023
- Thread starter Christopher Topham-Smith
- Start date
- Location
- London
I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled on the Underground and at The Oval and Lord’s, yet not seen a single edible thing. The closest I’ve seen is England having Ireland for breakfast and Surrey snacking on Hampshire. Is there something I’m missing here Richard?
- Location
- London and Connecticut
I was too slow to photograph these oyster mushrooms in the raw, but here they are cooking down for a pasta sauce. Foraged from the wilds of Wandsworth Common.
- Location
- London and Connecticut
Bullace about to become jam - foraged in Wandsworth.
- Location
- Yorkshire
The heavy rains,humidity and cold evenings have caused an unexpected early flourish of local fungi.
I’ve not seen so many fungi so early.
walking the dogs this morning was rich pickings but unprepared and only pocket space available I collected the ceps.
I’ve not seen so many fungi so early.
walking the dogs this morning was rich pickings but unprepared and only pocket space available I collected the ceps.
- Location
- Nottingham
It's a great year for blackberries, thanks to the damp summer. I've made 7 pots of blackberry and apple jam. What to do with the rest?
- Location
- London
Eat a large bowlful at every meal. Cream and sugar optional but recommended.
- Location
- London and Connecticut
Maybe cook them down as a compote and eat with yogurt for breakfast (as I did this morning). That way they keep as well.
- Location
- Oxfordshire
Put them in the bath until tomorrow; write a poem about them going mouldy.
- Location
- St Andrews
Pickle some. They make a fabulous garnish with most types of game. I make a pickling liquor with red wine vinegar, water, caster sugar, star anise, cinnamon stick, pink peppercorns and bay leaf. Heat all of these elements until the sugar dissolves and then allow to cool. Put your blackberries (brambles in this part of the world) into a sterile/sealable jar and then add the pickling liquor and they will keep in the fridge for ages. Add a few to the plate with a drizzle of the liquor - they go brilliantly with grouse, pheasant, partridge and venison, in fact with pretty much any game.
- Location
- Kent
Wonderful David. Are quantities important? Of the ingredients I mean
- Location
- St Andrews
Joel, the recipe I use is - 200ml of red wine vinegar, 150g of caster sugar, 1 cinnamon stick, half teaspoon of pink peppercorns, 3 star anise, 1 bay leaf and 50ml of water. This is enough for 200g of brambles.
- Location
- Salisbury, Wiltshire
This has popped up in my vegetable garden and I was wondering if any of you fungi experts can identify it. Sorry about the photo quality. It seems like the cockerel who visits has had a peck.
- Location
- UK
Shaggy ink cap or lawyer's wig.
- Location
- UK
Picked from a single clump of hazel yesterday evening. Hopefully these buck the trend — Cornwall has a prodigious crop this year, but so far the vast majority have been empty...
- Location
- London and Girona
Medlars and wild hops here in Hackney. Any suggestions for what to do with hops? (I'm not going to make beer)
- Location
- London and Connecticut
Do you mean hop shoots or flowers Charles? The shoots are tasty served as a side dish or added to certain pasta sauces. Not sure what you’d do with flowers, but I’m sure someone’s thought of something.
- Location
- London and Girona
Flowers I’m afraid…
Two recent events in Australia that will decrease the foraging brigade here.
‘Oh my god’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery
Woman who cooked suspected poisoned meal details where she bought mushrooms
‘Oh my god’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery
Woman who cooked suspected poisoned meal details where she bought mushrooms
- Location
- Herefordshire
- Location
- London and Connecticut
The photo isn't totally clear, but I'd say no Steve.
- Location
- Herefordshire
Clearer if you click on it. Biggest mushrooms I have ever seen!
- Location
- London
- Location
- London
- Location
- London
