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The first bluebells are here! 💙 East Sussex is

The first bluebells are here! 💙
East Sussex is one of the strongholds for wild bluebell woods! This is a native bluebell. So beautiful...(not edible).
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That is all! Enjoy Easter Monday 🐑
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#wildfeast #englishbluebells#hyacinthoidesnonscripta #bluebellwoods #bluebellseason #highweald

Salted chocolate cupcakes with sweet violet 💜🍫 Happy Easter/Ostara!🐇🐣 I do love a chocolate cake!
I used fresh sweet violets to decorate these which were made using a gluten-free vegan recipe from @bethkirby's localmilkblog. I omitted the lavender and added some violet syrup to the frosting instead, which I made with avocado (an occasional treat).
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I picked only a very small handful of sweet violets (and not from the wild) to make one little bottle of syrup. They're so special, I'm saving the rest of the deliciously delicate, violet-grey syrup to shine in cocktails.🍸
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Gorgeous sweet violets (Viola odorata) are our only scented violet species, and more abundant in some places than others. Overall, they're not especially common, so a very light touch is needed as these wildflowers face habitat loss pressures. Take care not to put them under extra strain from picking. Violets love shady, mossy lawns and my mum's planted some in her garden.💜
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Some think wild flowers shouldn't be picked at all. What do you think? I grew up picking wildflowers and learning their names from my parents. We care for the wildlife that we know and love! Foraging helps people notice, connect with and care for nature, which is why I teach foraging: to help spread that deep passion for our local wildlife. Since the pandemic, there's a surge of people new to foraging asking the names of flowers & fruit having spotted plants on their walks they hadn't noticed before.👀
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There are so many of us now, compared to the times when people relied on foraged food to supplement their diets. Which is another important reason to act responsibly if we take from the wild. We can give back too by allowing wildness into our gardens and deliberately planting native strains of wildflowers and trees...and litter-picking of course ~ I'm always picking up other people's litter while foraging...🚮♻️
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#conservationoptimism #wildfeast #sweetviolets #glutenfreebaking #vegancupcakes #veganbaking #seasonaleats #foraging #foraged #foragedbyfolk #eatweeds #foodforfree #forager #foragedfood #foraginguk #wildharvest #quietinthewild #wildfoodlove #wildfood

Shakshuka with wild garlic & wild spice 🍅🍃🍳
A spin on the traditional spicy Middle Eastern egg dish made a hearty brunch! As well as the usual onion, garlic and tomato, I added wild garlic three ways: fermented leaves; pickled seed pods; and tender, shredded leaves thrown in near the end of cooking.🌱
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Plus feta, finely chopped, tender Alexander's stems and a small, cubed leftover baked potato - an opportunity to save waste.♻️
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Spiced with foraged, ground hogweed and fennel seeds, as well as cumin, smoked paprika and cayenne.🌶️
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And garnished with fresh, chopped Alexander's leaves and three-cornered leek flowers. Alexander's can be tricky to pair with other flavours, but they add an aromatic freshness that works here.🌿
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The eggs were kindly given to me by a friend - laid by well cared-for hens living on an allotment. I promise to do posts other than eggs soon...but it is Easter!🥚
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#wildfeast #wildgarlic #alliumursinum #ramsons #wildgarlicseason #threecorneredleek #alliumtriquetrum #alexanders #smyrniumolusatrum #seasonaleats #foraging #foraged #foragedbyfolk #eatweeds #foodforfree #forager #foragedfood #foraginguk #wildharvest #quietinthewild #wildfoodlove #wildfood
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#wild feast #shakshuka

Local plaice and wild garlic butter 🐟🍃 Fish

Local plaice and wild garlic butter 🐟🍃
Fish Friday! These plaice fillets were so lush and simply made! I dipped them in seasoned flour and pan-fried them, plating them up with a generous knob of wild garlic butter, left to melt on top, and some wild garlic 'caviar' i.e. pickled seedpods.

I nipped out to my tiny garden for various tasty garnishes: Red deadnettle flowers, bittercress leaves, young ground elder shoots, young dandelion leaves and petals, plus some crunchy stonecrop (Sedum) which I blanched.

Served with some new potatoes and peas. So good! 🤤

Plaice here are cheaper if you buy them whole, although flat fish aren't super easy to fillet. Thankfully I've got a sharp filleting knife and managed not to make a complete hash of it! 😅😝

#wildfeast #plaice #flatfish #fishdish #lovefish #localfish #wildfeast #wildgarlic #alliumursinum #ramsons #wildgarlicseason #seasonaleats #foraging #foraged #foragedbyfolk #eatweeds #foodforfree #forager #foragedfood #foraginguk #wildharvest #quietinthewild #wildfoodlove #wildfood #sussexlife #sussexfood #sussexcountryside #sussexcoast
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Beautiful blackthorn blossom 💮 Bursting into bl

Beautiful blackthorn blossom 💮
Bursting into bloom now! 🤍 So delicate and lightly fragrant, understated yet abundant. Lining fields and roadsides, have you seen it yet? One of my favourite native blossoms and one of the earliest to flower. Snow white blooms appear on the bush's spiny reddish-brown branches before the leaves. 🌿
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It's a little wild plum ~ the same bush that develops sloes in autumn. The flowers are appreciated by honey bees and other insects and pollinators.🐝
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The blossom comes before hawthorn which isn't usually out until at least late April, after its leaves have emerged, and usually May. Hence hawthorn's other name of 'may blossom'.🌸
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There's a lot of blackthorn in my local hedgerows and I use some of the almondy-flavoured blossoms every year for making a delicately-flavoured syrup. I leave plenty behind, both for wildlife, and so I can collect sloes later of course!🍷
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The flowers make a gorgeous garnish too, but they don't last long and it's best not to eat too many fresh as they contain cyanogenic compounds which produce cyanide on eating.⚠️
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#blossomwatch #blackthornblossom #blackthorn #wildfeast #springforaging #edibleflowers #inspiredbypetals #wildfoodlove #wildfood #foraged #foraging #forager #findyourwild #quietinthewild #natureconnection #seasonalliving #prunusspinosa

Turkeytail / Trametes versicolor 🦃 An attractiv

Turkeytail / Trametes versicolor 🦃
An attractive bracket fungus, looking like its namesake. Thin, leathery and tough, it's not known as an edible, but it is known as a medicinal mushroom.
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I took some of these, leaving most behind. I chopped them into small pieces and simmered them in water for over an hour to extract their 'shroomy goodness. They make a tasty, savoury, mushroomy 'tea' which I'll have as a broth with some seaweed, ginger, miso and soy.
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Turkeytail is a common fungus, growing mainly on dead stumps and branches of deciduous trees in tiers of semi-circular fan shapes. Recognisable by its stripes, or concentric zones of colour, usually in shades of brown, grey, red, ochre, black, and even slate blue, with a paler creamy-white edge, and pale white/cream underside with tiny pores.
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It's said to be great for the immune system ~ which studies seem to support. It's sometimes used as a supplement alongside more traditional cancer treatment. It's thought that the mushroom may improve the ability of the immune system’s natural killer cells to attack cancer cells. Apparently the health benefits are mainly due to its beta glucans which work as immune system regulators. Clever little mushroom!🍄
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#medicinalmushrooms #turkeytail #wildfeast #mushroombroth #mushroomtea #wildmushrooms #mushroomsofinstagram #foraging #foraged #forager #fungihunting #fungiforaging #wildmushroomhunting #wildfood #wildfoodlove #foragedbyfolk #mushroomhunting #wildharvest #findyourwild #quietinthewild #natureconnection #foraginguk #trametesversicolor #immunesupport

Yolk porn with a wild supporting cast🍳🍃 It's

Yolk porn with a wild supporting cast🍳🍃
It's after the 9pm watershed and I love a bit of slowly dribbling yolk...🤭 Accompanied here by a soundtrack of starlings on speed.😆🎶
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That lush free-range (garden-laid) orange egg yolk oozing out onto the plate...perched on a bed of toasted homemade bread...smeared with a layer of hot, green pesto, with pungent wild garlic and nutty sunflower seeds. Garnished with cute little bittercress leaves and flowers.🌿
🤤 Pure delicious filth! 🌱
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Well probably pretty healthy to be honest! 😆😇
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My hunger and excitement seems to have affected my ability to keep my hands still while filming! 😝👋
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Thank you for the gorgeous eggs @jibboome ~ love you! 🤗
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#wildfeast #wildgarlic #alliumursinum #ramsons #wildgarlicseason #wildgarlicpesto #bittercress #yolkporn #seasonaleats #foraging #foraged #foragedbyfolk #eatweeds #foodforfree #forager #foragedfood #foraginguk #wildharvest #quietinthewild #wildfoodlove #wildfood

🍃🧀Stilton and wild garlic scones🧀🍃 Her

🍃🧀Stilton and wild garlic scones🧀🍃
Here they are again...well the last three as the others got eaten straight away! I couldn't find an existing stilton and wild garlic scone recipe, so I developed one based on other recipes, including the @nationaltrust's ~ as recommended by @felicitycloake. I'm sure these would be just as tasty made with cheddar as stilton.😋
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I'm a novice scone maker, I don't have anywhere near the baking experience of my mum, but they got the thumbs from her on Mother's Day so I'm very happy with that. 👍🥰
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As per my previous post, I served them in a savoury twist on the traditional cream tea, with cream cheese and chilli jam.🌶️
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If you have a go at baking these, let me know how they turn out ~ I hope you like them!🤗
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🍃🧀Stilton and wild garlic scones🧀🍃
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200g self raising flour
90g grated stilton
80g fridge cold butter (or half butter, half lard)
100 to 150ml milk
50g (a large handful) wild garlic leaves
1.5 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
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Heat the oven to 220 deg C/425F/GM 7. Lightly grease a baking sheet.
Wash the wild garlic well, pat or spin dry, and chop fairly finely.
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Chop the butter, mix together the flour and salt and rub in the butter with your fingertips using cold hands, as quickly and lightly as possible, until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
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Stir in the cheese and chopped garlic, then add just enough milk to get a soft dough. Knead very lightly on a floured surface and pat or roll out to 2cm thick. Cut into rounds using a 5cm cutter and put them on the baking sheet.
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Lightly knead together any remaining dough, pat to the right thickness and stamp out more scones until the dough is used up.

Brush the scone tops with a little milk. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until lightly golden and well-risen. Cool on a wire rack. Don't cut until cool - or they'll go doughy! Eat within a day or so.
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#wildfeast #wildgarlic #wildgarlicscones #cheesescones #alliumursinum #ramsons #wildgarlicseason #seasonaleats #foraging #foraged #foragedbyfolk #eatweeds #foodforfree #forager #foragedfood #foraginguk #wildharvest #quietinthewild #wildfoodlove #wildfood
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Wild Awake Ireland cocktail ☕☘️ I've named t

Wild Awake Ireland cocktail ☕☘️
I've named this locktail for my Irish foraging friends Lucy @wildawakeireland and Courtney @hipsandhawswildcrafts who are supportive peers, knowledgeable in wild ways, and generous with sharing knowledge and resources, be it basket weaving, kombucha-making, or sharing scobys and yoghurt starters.
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Happy St Patrick's Day, I hope you like the cocktail, lovely lasses!♀️💪🏻
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☘️ I've garnished my drink with an edible wood sorrel leaf which is thought to be the original 'shamrock' of Irish fame. It's fairly easy to find in shady woods and looks a bit like clover with 3 slightly hairy heart-shaped leaflets and a pink stem. It tastes deliciously sharp - a bit like lemon or sour apple peel.🍋🍏
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I've used may blossom syrup in this recipe too. The may bush or hawthorn is thought of as a faery tree in Irish folklore. Apparently faeries gather around them after dark, luring unsuspecting humans with sweet music, spiriting them away to another world. There are tales too of people coming to a sticky end if they damage hawthorn trees! 🪚🌳☠️
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☘️☕Wild Awake Ireland cocktail ☕☘️
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50ml @jamesonwhiskey (or other Irish whiskey).
60ml espresso-strength coffee
25ml stout or porter
25ml may blossom syrup
Garnish: wood sorrel leaf
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Stir all ingredients except the beer in a mixing glass with ice, strain into a glass. Dry-shake the beer (without ice) and pour over the drink..
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This is my wild take on the Eye Opener cocktail (so called because it contains coffee) created by Killian Lee for Jameson. I love Irish whiskey in cocktails - @slanewhiskey and @powers_whiskey are a couple of faves.🇮🇪
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@wild.cocktails #wildfeast #irishwhiskey #mayblossom #hawthorn #irishfolklore #stpaddysday #stpatrick #woodsorrel #foraged #whiskeylover #womenandwhiskies #wildcocktail #botanicalcocktails #diffordsguide #wildcocktails #foragedcocktails #cocktailsofinsta #wildfoodlove #cocktailsathome #locktails #wilddrinks #wildmixology #foragedmixology #wildbooze #craftcocktails #foraging
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Stilton and Wild Garlic Scones 🍃🧀 Served wit

Stilton and Wild Garlic Scones 🍃🧀
Served with cream cheese and chilli jam. When it comes to scones, I'm a big dollop of cream first with jam on top kinda girl...I'm not gonna apologise for that! ☺️
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I made these for my mum ~ a savoury version of the usual cream tea. The oniony-ness of the wild garlic with sharp strong stilton cheese, cool cream cheese and sweet, spicy jam ~ an unusual and delicious mix of flavours! These have all scone now (see what I did there 😆), but they've set my taste buds off and I'm craving jam and cream scones too.🍓
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Big thanks to my lovely friends in the @highwealdaonb team for my mushroom mug! 🍄🥰
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#wildfeast #highweald #wildgarlic #wildgarlicscones #alliumursinum #ramsons #wildgarlicseason #seasonaleats #foraging #foraged #foragedbyfolk #eatweeds #foodforfree #forager #foragedfood #foraginguk #wildharvest #quietinthewild
#cheesescones #wildfoodlove #wildfood

🍒 Storm the Sazerac⚡ It was Absinthe Day yest

🍒 Storm the Sazerac⚡
It was Absinthe Day yesterday!🧚‍♂️ The classic 'Sazerac' is basically an 'Old-fashioned' cocktail with a splash of absinthe. An Old-fashioned being traditionally whisky or brandy over ice, with sugar or syrup, and bitters. It's spirit-forward balanced with a little sweetness.🍬
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The richness of wild cherries and sloes shine in my wild Sazerac, with complementary herb and spice notes. If you don't like neat whiskey, you might love the complex flavours in my fruity whiskey cocktail! 🥃
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I don't have any absinthe in my drinks cabinet, but I do have some sloe-infused ouzo (sloezo 😁) ~ both drinks contain anise. I also used @jimbeamofficial bourbon, infused for several months with wild cherries, and sloe & apple syrup instead of plain syrup.🫐
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I added a few drops of my mugwort-infused vodka too. Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is a wild aromatic herb commonly on lowland road verges and field edges in the UK ~ see a dried sprig garnishing my drink. It's a close relation of wormwood (Artemesia absinthium) which is a necessary ingredient of absinthe.🌿
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🍒 STORM THE SAZERAC⚡
The Sazerac originated in New Orleans in the 1850s. It's traditionally made with cognac or rye whiskey but I've used bourbon. You could also use Angustora instead of the creole bitters.
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• wild cherry-infused bourbon
• sloe & apple syrup
• @thebittertruthcompany Creole bitters
• sloe-infused ouzo
• mugwort tincture
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Stirred with ice, strained into a glass and garnished with a sprig of dried mugwort.
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In the early 1900s, women weren't generally allowed into bars in Louisiana. In 1949 the MD of the newly opened Sazerac Bar in @theroosevelt_no hotel (still there to this day) decided to abolish this rule and welcome women ~ apparently they came in their droves, literally 'storming the Sazerac'!⚡
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@wild.cocktails #wildfeast #sazerac #equalityforall #neworleansculture #foraged #sloes #wildcherries #whiskeylover #womenandwhiskies #wildcocktail #botanicalcocktails #diffordsguide #wildcocktails #foragedcocktails #cocktailsofinsta #wildfoodlove #cocktailsathome #locktails #wilddrinks #wildmixology #foragedmixology #wildbooze #craftcocktails #foraging

Wild greens soup with wild garlic gremolata🍵🌿
It seems like spring has really sprung! The birds are singing their hearts out and it's warming up. Lots of wild greens are starting to show now...Have you tried wild spring greens in a healthy soup? It's really simple to make.🎶🐦🌞
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I added fresh, new shoots of wild greens: sea beet, nettle tips and Alexanders to this soup. Made with foraged and leftover veg, it was practically free! I pimped it up with a swirl of creamy local @northiamdairyltd yoghurt and blobs of wild garlic gremolata, and ate it with James' homemade wild garlic bread.😋
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I made the zingy, green gremolata with finely-chopped wild garlic and Alexanders leaves, foraged pot marigold (Calendula) petals, lemon zest, wild garlic salt and black pepper.🌻
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For the soup I used a base of leftover, cooked potato, carrots and kale. I fried a few chopped (white) garlic cloves in a little wild garlic butter, then added the washed, wild greens to wilt them. I chucked in the leftover veg, some veg stock and a dash of mushroom ketchup, simmered it all gently for a few minutes. Then blended the soup and seasoned it with black pepper.🥔🥕🍃
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#wildfeast #wildgarlic #alliumursinum #ramsons #wildgarlicseason #gremolata #alexanders #seabeet #nettles #greensoup #seasonaleats #souplover #soupseason #winterforaging #souplife #lovesoup #foraging #foraged #wildfood #wildfoodlove #foragedbyfolk #eatweeds #foodforfree #forager #foragedfood #foraginguk #wildharvest #quietinthewild

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☀️🌱Signs of Spring🌱☀️ Wasn't it spri

☀️🌱Signs of Spring🌱☀️
Wasn't it spring-like on Sunday? I found these pretty wild primroses, with their buttery-yellow faces, cheerily peeking out of a hedgerow. They're one of the nation’s favourite wildflowers.💛🇬🇧
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The primrose is one of the first native blooms of early spring and the Latin ‘prima rosa’ means first rose. It grows in open woodland, shady hedge-banks, road verges and railway embankments. The flowers are an important nectar source for butterflies and bees.🦋🐝
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The pretty flowers and the young leaves (rather spicy) are edible. Although I don't pick primroses in much quantity from the wild ~ I prefer to take a few from gardens, with permission, provided they haven't been sprayed with chemicals. You can buy native primroses for the garden as perennial plug plants or in pots.🍃
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As with any native plant, you should only take flowers and foliage from the wild where there are large patches of the plant, and pick in moderation so that plenty is left behind, being careful not to damage the plant and surrounding vegetation.🌱
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Wild primroses are widespread in Britain, they're not threatened and can grow profusely in some places. But they also face pressures from habitat loss, poor management of woodland and waysides and the spread of some introduced plant species. There's some evidence that primroses might be sensitive to air pollution and climate change. So bear this in mind and be aware how plentiful they are in your area.🌍
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When I do pick them, I do it like this so that if the flower has been pollinated it can still form seeds: Grasp petals gently at the top of the tube and pull them from from the calyx (the green whorl at the base of the petals), leaving the calyx, as well as the other flower parts, the stigma and style, behind i.e. the bit in the centre of the tube where pollen is deposited, and the slender stalk that connects to the ovary.
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⚠️ Handling primrose could cause skin rashes for some people.
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#wildfeast #primrose #wildsalad #springforaging #edibleflowers #inspiredbypetals #wildfoodlove #wildfood #foraged #foraging #forager #findyourwild #quietinthewild #natureconnection #seasonalliving

A cheeky acorn brew 🌳🧺☕ Hello 👋 hope yo

A cheeky acorn brew 🌳🧺☕
Hello 👋 hope you're having a lovely lockdown Saturday evening. I'm calling this a brew, although it's often referred to as 'acorn coffee'. But it tastes nothing like coffee to me! I think it tastes nutty and biscuitty ~ specifically Rich Tea biscuits! I made photographer @bethsteddon and I this comforting brew in the woods, with roasted, ground acorns. It felt right to drink it under the trees.☕
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Huge thanks to the talented Beth for the photos ~ she's skilled at capturing the more natural moments and making the most of beautiful, natural surroundings.🤗🌳🍂
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I dry my acorns first, sometimes for a few months, then shell and skin them. I give them a 20 minute cook in water to get rid of some of the tannins, then drain and grind them. They then get a roast in the oven until brown and another grinding, then roasting, until dark, but not burnt. I keep the grounds in an airtight jar and usually use a cafetière to steep them and make the brew.🧺🫖
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Three-cornered Leek / Allium triquetrum 🌱 ...th

Three-cornered Leek / Allium triquetrum 🌱
...the whole plant is edible, in season now, and not too tricky to identify. The leaves are long and strap-like, a bit like bluebell leaves which are also shooting up now. It's more prevalent south of Oxford in England and Wales, and on the east coast of Ireland, but less frequent in Scotland. Find it near habitation, in parks and gardens, and on roadsides, hedge banks, field margins and waste ground.
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Three-cornered leek is a Mediterranean plant, introduced around the 19th Century. It spreads very easily and can crowd out less vigorous wildflowers like bluebells and primroses. It's an offence to cause it to spread in the wild though, so forage abundantly but carefully!🧺
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Use the leaves like chives, spring onions or leeks ~ chopped in mash, blended with butter or in pesto, soups and tarts. While young and tender, they're great sliced raw into salads or home-made coleslaw. I love them in a healthy guacamole ~ recipe link in bio. The edible flowers make an attractive savoury garnish too.🍃😋
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Unlike the leaves of bluebells, which are poisonous, three-cornered leek leaves have a ‘keel’ coming from the centre of the underside, making them triangular in cross-section. Hence ‘three-cornered’, *swipe* to see this in the second image.📐
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It's closely related to onion and garlic, and smells of onion when bruised or picked. The bell-like flowers shown here start to appear around now, looking similar to white bluebells (*swipe* for photo), but with a narrow green stripe down the centre of each of the six petals.🤍💚
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Take care not to confuse them with the snowdrop or summer snowflake (Leucojum aestivum) either. Both are poisonous and flowering now with green and white petals. *Swipe* for photos.⚠️
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Link in bio for my guac recipe, the health benefits of three-cornered leek and more identification tips.☝️
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#wildfeast #wildfoodlove #alliumtriquetrum #threecorneredleek #healthyfoodie #vegetarianfood #foraging #wildfood #wildcraft #eathealthyfood

Pretty pancakes with blossom syrup 🌸💗🥞 Ma

Pretty pancakes with blossom syrup 🌸💗🥞
May (hawthorn) blossom brown sugar syrup is delicious and rich - it's a bit like a floral maple syrup and perfect for pancakes! I'll share my video on how to make it when the hawthorn tree flowers again in early May. I garnished this stack of frilly-edged pancake beauties (made by James a couple of years ago) with some gorgeous cherry blossom.🍳
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I love a savoury pancake too, and last night I made a creamy sauce for James' pancakes with rehydrated foraged ceps, wild garlic, ground ivy, thyme, local cream and mushroom stock poured over small chunks of brie as a filling. I didn't take a shot, so instead my second pic is a pancake from a previous September, with a filling of foraged field mushrooms, cream, garlic, onion and lemon juice, strewn with a few common sorrel leaves and red clover florets.🍄😋
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⚠️ It's best to limit some raw edible flowers like cherry blossom to small amounts, and they may be best avoided if you're pregnant or breastfeeding.
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#wildfeast #pancakeday #pancakelover #abitlate #foraged #mayblossom #hawthornblossom #sugarrush #hawthorn #foraging #wildfoodlove #wildfood #mushroomforaging #fieldmushrooms #agaricus #wildmushrooms #sorrel #commonsorrel #redclover #edibleflowers #vegetariansofig #foodforfree #foragedbyfolk #eatweeds #forager #foragedfood #foraginguk #wildharvest #quietinthewild

🌲🍒Black Forest🍒🌲 Wild cherry and choco

🌲🍒Black Forest🍒🌲
Wild cherry and chocolate booze with a touch of fir and vanilla grass. Topped with a float of lightly-whipped local cream for ultimate indulgence and lightly sweetened with my cherry blossom syrup. A decadent, warming cocktail inspired by gateaux and forests.🇩🇪
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Valentine's schmalentine's...just a normal day here really. But I did enjoy this drink which I made mainly for myself.😏 Hope you've had a lovely day and treated yourselves...by heck we all need it don't we?! 💝🌹
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Pouring a cream float takes a bit of practice but it's not difficult. Hold a small spoon upside down just over the top of the drink and slowly pour the cream onto the upturned spoon until the drink is covered.
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My drink contains:
• Wild cherry-infused vodka
• Douglas fir-infused vodka
• Vanilla/sweet vernal grass vodka
• Cacao nib vodka tincture
• Cherry blossom syrup
• Double cream from @northiamdairyltd
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Shaken with ice and strained into a frosted glass with a (lightly whipped) double cream float and a bit of rose sugar sprinkled top.
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🍃🚦Green Light🚦🍃 Have you ever used cle

🍃🚦Green Light🚦🍃
Have you ever used cleavers in a cocktail? Maybe this'll start a trend! My beautifully green gin sour cocktail has refreshing cucumber, honeydew melon and grassy notes. So spring-like! 💚
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Cleavers, also called stickyweed or sticky willy, are among the earliest green shoots of the year. I use them this early in the season to bring a delicate taste, with a mild sweetness, to drinks.
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With its clinging leaves and stalk, and little round ‘burrs’, cleavers is probably best known for sticking to clothing and animal fur, and as a straggling garden ‘weed’. Its tiny, prickly hairs give it a rough, sticky Velcro-like feel and allow it to climb. Apparently geese enjoy eating it, hence the name 'goosegrass'.🌿
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@thebotanistgin with its delicate complexity and green, herbal freshness is perfect for this cocktail.
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🍃🚦GREEN LIGHT🚦🍃
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I make the cleavers juice by chopping freshly-picked, young cleavers, blending with a little water and carefully fine-straining to use straight away. With a potent herbal juice like this, around 60ml is enough according to herbalist and forager @monicawilde. Make the honey syrup by adding just enough warm water to dissolve the honey.
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50ml @thebotanistgin
50ml fresh cleavers juice
15ml honey syrup
10ml fresh lime juice
Half an egg white (or 15ml aquafaba)
2 mint sprigs
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Muddle one of the mint sprigs with the gin in the bottom of a cocktail shaker, add the rest of the ingredients and shake with ice. Strain into a shaker without ice and shake as if your life depends on it! Fine strain into a glass, and garnish with a charred lime wheel, a mint sprig and fresh cleavers.🍸🍈🌱🌿
Cleavers has blood thinning and potential uterine stimulant properties, so may not be suitable for everyone.
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Winter wild herbs and greens!🌿🍃🥗 I've jus

Winter wild herbs and greens!🌿🍃🥗
I've just eaten an exciting 💯% wild salad from freshly foraged greens, full of vitamin C and other nutrients and antioxidants!💪🏻
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Spring is on the way so keep your eyes peeled now for all the tasty, nutritious edible wild plants starting to send up new shoots! 🌱👀
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*SWIPE* to see labels for all 15 different greens and flowers I foraged at the weekend in the basket above.🏷️
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My flavoursome wild salad had the punchiness of wild garlic and lemony common sorrel, the earthy tastes of ground ivy and red deadnettle, the bitterness of dandelion and wintercress, the freshness of cow parsley, and the crunchiness of the youngest broad-leaved dock leaves...All against a background of the slightly blander sow thistle, nipplewort and lesser celandine leaves.😋
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Most of the leaves that didn't go into my salad were made into a delicious, mixed wild herb pesto. Except the cleavers which were infused in a bottle of soda for a refreshing drink, and the wood avens leaves which were fried as crisps. I used the sweet violets in vodka and the lesser periwinkle flowers as a pretty cocktail garnish.💜
⚠️ NB Lesser periwinkle is a flower I only use in very small garnish amounts. Use with caution as large quantities of the plant are poisonous. The fresh flowers are mildly purgative (laxative), although lose this effect when dried.
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🌼White Goddess Fizz☀️ Celebrating the ancie

🌼White Goddess Fizz☀️
Celebrating the ancient Gaelic festival of Imbolc and the first signs of Spring with a new cocktail. It's named after Celtic goddess Brigid, who's honoured at Imbolc and represented by white for purity of new life. Floral, fresh and tangy with a foamy head, this is my riff on a classic Ramos Gin Fizz cocktail.🍸
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🌱The elderflower (homemade cordial & liqueur) in my drink honours the Sun, and the fresh, new shoots of cleavers (infused into soda water for several hours) mark the coming of Spring. Dairy foods traditionally featured at Imbolc feasts to symbolise rebirth at a time when animals are pregnant. I've used yoghurt as a lighter alternative to the usual cream in a Ramos Fizz, you could use any natural yoghurt.🥛
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❄️It was our first snow of the year and we took Sparky dog for an icy walk. Although the land is 'wrapped in winter', there are signs of Spring. Snowdrops, primroses, dandelions, daisies and sweet violets are flowering. Green shoots of cleavers, celandine, red deadnettle and cow parsley are appearing, and I harvested a handful of wild garlic. Here's to spring and new beginnings!🌱
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☀️35ml @needle_gin
☀️5ml elderflower & lemon liqueur
☀️25ml elderflower cordial
☀️25ml kefir fermented yoghurt
☀️20ml egg white (or aquafaba)
☀️10ml fresh lemon juice
☀️10ml fresh lime juice
☀️0.25 tsp orange flower water
☀️Cleavers-infused soda to top up
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Shake the first 8 ingredients hard with ice, strain back into a shaker. Dry shake (without ice) for as long as you can. Pour slowly into a tall, chilled glass at the same time as the soda, in a single stream. I decorated mine with a lesser periwinkle, a flower I only use in small garnish amounts.⚠️Use with caution as large quantities of the plant are poisonous and the fresh flowers are mildly purgative (laxative).
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Three-cornered Leek Guacamole 🥑🌱 Foraged thr

Three-cornered Leek Guacamole 🥑🌱
Foraged three-cornered leek is a perfect ingredient for healthy guacamole 😋...raw onion and garlic can overpower the delicate taste of avocado.
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Served here on Christmas tree-shaped tortilla chips 😃🌲
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Link for recipe, and three-cornered leek identification tips, in bio.👆
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Douglas Fir Soda 🌲🌸 Fresh, sparkling and sop

Douglas Fir Soda 🌲🌸
Fresh, sparkling and sophisticated! If you don't happen to have conifer syrup handy 😉 elderflower cordial would work instead. Kudos to anyone doing dry January ~ not long to go...
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This conifer-based drink is very low in alcohol, but not completely alcohol-free as it contains a few drops of bitters, but you could leave them out.🍹
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The best time to pick conifer needles for syrup is in spring when the bright green, new tips emerge. I'll post a syrup recipe when the time comes. You can use larch, spruce and pine needles as well as fir, even baby cones. Just be sure you can tell them apart from the yew tree, which is one of our native evergreens, but the needles are deadly poisonous.🌲
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The bubbles are important! I find sparkling water, or soda suits the delicate flavour of foraged syrups and cordials better than still water. Partly because carbonated water is slightly acidic, but perhaps also because the bubbles carry aromatic compounds up to the nose which intensifies perception of flavour!👃
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DOUGLAS FIR SODA 🌲🌸
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Soda water to taste
50ml Douglas fir syrup (or elderflower cordial)
Squeeze of fresh lime (strained)
Dash of orange flower water
Couple of drops @thebittertruthcompany orange bitters
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Chill your glass, add a handful of fir tip ice cubes. Pour the syrup into the glass with the bitters and orange flower water ~ no more than half a tsp as it's strongly perfumey. Add soda and lime juice to taste. Stir slowly to help prevent the bubbles from escaping. Garnish with lime and blossom.💮
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Beetroot, lentil and horseradish soup with wild ga

Beetroot, lentil and horseradish soup with wild garlic & ground ivy pesto 💗🍃
Do you like beetroot? You need to read this, even if you don't! Remember I mentioned coal-baking a ginormous beetroot grown by my kind neighbour? I made some of it into soup, cooked with onion and garlic, simmered with green lentils in stock flavoured with thyme and bay, and whizzed up (remove bay first - I sometimes forget 🙄) with horseradish and a dash of vinegar.🔥
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I swirled thick, creamy local yoghurt from @northiamdairyltd mixed with more horseradish sauce on top, and dolloped it with fresh, green pesto made from aromatic, wild winter leaves.🌱💚
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I made the pesto with the very first tender wild garlic leaves, some earthy ground ivy leaves, a squeeze of lemon, some nuts, cold-pressed rapeseed oil and finely grated cheddar from @quickescheese. Sooo flavoursome! 🧀
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For more on tasty 'ground ivy', which is not the same as the three-lobed *non-edible* climber many are familiar with, search 'Wild Feast ground ivy'.🔎
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Served this with James' @guineapigs_country_guide homemade bread ~ he's gone all posh and started adding spelt flour to it! 😄🍞
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**VERDICT** couldn't get enough of this soup ~ and that's from someone who doesn't love beetroot!! 😆 Thank you @harmarbrown ~ if you happen to have more, I'll make you some, it's addictive! Truly #nutritiousanddelicious 😋🥄💞
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Vegan Wild Garlic, Hazelnut & Raw Kale Pesto 🍃

Vegan Wild Garlic, Hazelnut & Raw Kale Pesto 🍃
As it's Veganuary, why not give my yummy vegan version of wild garlic pesto a try? Vibrant, seasonal and nutrient-dense with vitamins A, C, K, E and B, antioxidants, calcium, iron and potential anti-viral properties. Beneficial for the immune system and hard not to eat straight from the jar! 💚
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The first tender wild garlic leaves are the best! If they haven't appeared in your area yet, it shouldn't be many weeks before they do. If you prefer that punchy raw wild garlic flavour toned down a little, as I do, try some fresh, British curly kale in your pesto. It's not cabbagey or at all bitter when whizzed up with fresh wild garlic. 😋
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Find the cheesy version on my website, link in bio.
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WILD GARLIC, HAZELNUT & KALE PESTO 🌱🌰🍃
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40g fresh, wild garlic leaves, washed
40g curly kale leaves (or blanched nettle tips)
60g halved hazelnuts and/or other nuts or seeds
4-5 tbsps cold-pressed rapeseed oil (approx)
1 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
2 tsps white wine vinegar
1 lemon, juiced
Ground black pepper
Salt
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📖 Method (makes around one small jar):
Wash the curly kale, trim away the thicker parts of the stalk and chop roughly with the wild garlic leaves. Dry fry the nuts/seeds to toast them.
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🍋Whizz the leaves in a blender with the vinegar, half the lemon juice and enough oil to loosen the mix. Add the nuts/seeds and nutritional yeast, blend until smooth enough for your liking. Stir in more oil as needed, the rest of the lemon juice to taste, and season with salt & pepper. Enjoy!
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⚠️ Make sure you store it in the fridge and use within 2 weeks to keep safe and avoid potentially serious food poisoning that can be associated with fresh plant material in oil.
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Crabbie Burns Cocktail 🍎🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
A Burns Night toast to the good health of all you lassies and lads....slange var! This is my take on the Bobby Burns, a boozy 1930s cocktail, which is itself a spin on the Manhattan cocktail. My version uses the delightfully fruity crab apple-infused whisky that I made last year. It's a sweet, spicy and herbal drink with the fruitiness of apples and the bitterness of Italian red vermouth.
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Do you celebrate Burns Night? I lived in Aberdeen for a while and miss Scotland and my friends there.🥰
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I also made a Whisky Mac (second pic) ~ my warming wild version is made with crab apple whisky, ginger wine and a few dashes of green walnut & walnut leaf tincture for aromatics, bitterness and a little nuttiness. The Whisky Mac is a cocktail going as far back as Victorian times. According to @diffordsguide it's named after a Scottish general at the time, Major General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald. He was the son of a crofter, who rose through the ranks and was said to have invented the drink while serving in India.
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CRABBIE BURNS 🍎
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35ml crab apple-infused whisky
(I used @whyte.mackay blended Scotch)
35ml @Martini Rubino vermouth
17.5ml @benedictineliqueur
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Stir with ice, strain into a chilled glass and garnish with a slice of crab apple.
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Something to look forward to...💝🍃🧺 I'm of

Something to look forward to...💝🍃🧺
I'm offering foraging course gift vouchers for Valentine's, by post or email.
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Give the gift of a memorable and fun foraging experience, just for your beloved, or as something to enjoy together when lockdown ends.
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Vouchers are available for my £45 Foraging & Wild Food courses, held within 15 miles of Hastings in East Sussex. To order, see link in bio.
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Courses allow for social distancing in small groups on a foraging walk, with outdoor wild food tasting, and lots of ideas on how to identify, prepare & cook foraged ingredients. Course dates and locations to be announced in February. 🌳🌱🌿

Get in touch if you have any questions 🙂 sarah@wildfeast.co.uk
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📷🍄 Photo: Beautiful little 'scarlet elf cup' fungi ♥️ also known as elf caps, moss cups or fairies’ baths! A fairly uncommon 'cup fungus' that grows on mossy, fallen twigs and branches in damp places in woodlands, ditches and by streams.
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WILD GARLIC'S HERE!! 🌱💚 Celebrating my very

WILD GARLIC'S HERE!! 🌱💚
Celebrating my very first wild garlic leaf of 2021! 🙌 Have you spotted any yet? In its favourite habitat here - a wooded stream bank. There's mainly pointy shoots here so far - swipe to see them all punching through the leaf litter! 🍂 But the earliest leaves are starting to unfurl beautifully too in less shady spots of East Sussex. Yay, spring's on the way! 🌞🎉
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When the leaves get going in your area, there's a wild garlic and nettle pesto recipe on my website with both vegan and dairy versions, link in bio.🍃
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⚠️ Make sure you know how to tell wild garlic shoots from those of other early bulbs and tubers, many of which are toxic ~ the 4th pic here from @eduliswildfood shows 'Lords and Ladies' leaves too. The smell is the main giveaway. More on wild garlic ID via bio link.
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Bluebell shoots open up with the narrower leaves forming a star shape. Daffodil shoots are more flattened-looking, as are snowdrops, which tend to be more blue-grey in colour too. Crocus shoots have a bundle of leaves per shoot, like a bunch of grass. Lords and ladies' leaves unfurl in a single 'scroll' (as do Lily of the Valley's). As you can see from my first photo, wild garlic has two scrolls! Check out my friend Lisa's post for a great description and photos of this @eduliswildfood.👩🏻‍🎓
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Wild pizza toppings!🍕🌿 The Italians traditio

Wild pizza toppings!🍕🌿
The Italians traditionally use nettles in many ways...in pasta dough, stuffed pasta, gnocchi, and more. All great ways to use nettle, but I 💚 nettle on pizza too!
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I use nettle in pesto to blob on my pizza, I blanch and chop nettle leaves to layer under mozzarella, or put whole, fresh leaves on top of pizza, drizzled with a little oil to make them crispy and delicious once cooked!
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What do you love to do with nettles? 🍃
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As well as air-dried ham and mozzarella, my pizza is topped with:
• Homemade tomato sauce flavoured with foraged ground fennel & Alexander's seeds.
• Wild garlic & nettle pesto.
• Sliced porcini (frozen).
• Fresh, crispy nettle leaves.
• Fresh chopped three-cornered leek leaves after cooking.
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Fire-cooked bacon & hawthorn ketchup buttie 🥓🔥
Happy hump day! Weather's a bit dire, eh?! 🌬️🌧️ I got James and I a Christmas treat ~ an online cooking over fire course from the experts @thesaltboxuk. Feeling inspired on a drier day, we did a bit of cooking using a firepit that James made from an old smoker BBQ, using the cylinder body to keep the fire off the grass.
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SWIPE to see skewer-cooked, outdoor-bred, smoked bacon, brushed with hawthorn ketchup, which we put between slices of homemade bread drizzled with the last of my hawthorn berry sauce.🥓🥓🍞
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As the fire died down, I rubbed pieces of a beetroot (kindly given to me by my neighbour @harmarbrown) in oil, added myrtle leaves and fir needles, wrapped them in foil and roasted them on the hot coals in the twilight.🌚
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I've got a confession...I don't cook over fire a great deal! Do you?? I'd love to be more adept at it, but to be honest, I'm more comfortable using a hob and an oven! 🙈
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Building a fire and cooking over it is quite a skill, and you need to get permission, or to consider where fires are allowed. But I do enjoy outdoor cookery and I've vowed to get more adventurous with wild food over fire this year! I'm looking forward to learning more from Christian and Beckie @thesaltboxuk.😀🪵🔥
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Wild Spiced Berry Mulled Cider 🍺🍏🍎 A toas

Wild Spiced Berry Mulled Cider 🍺🍏🍎
A toast to your good health, and that of the apple trees, with a delicious, traditional 'wassail' winter warmer, recipe below. 👇🏻Cheers! Have you celebrated wassail before? 🍻
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Wassailing is an old English ceremony to encourage a bountiful apple harvest (see my last post) - but you can toast any crop or livestock. A hot, spiced, sweetened cider or ale was traditionally served from a large bowl and passed round for each person to raise a toast, shouting 'WASSAIL!', meaning 'be healthy'.🌳
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My wild wassail contains cider and crab apple juice (pressed for me by the lovely @eve_apple_press), warmed with wild spices and elderberries or blackberries ~ both high in antioxidants and said to be great for the immune system. Fir sprigs bring tasty citrus notes.🌲
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🍎WILD SPICED BERRY MULLED CIDER 🍎
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Sometimes cooked crab apples were floated in the wassail bowl, they'd burst and the fluffy flesh was called 'lamb's wool'. See previous post about finding winter crab apples.
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• 1 litre local apple cider.
• 0.5l to 1l pressed local apple (or crab apple) juice.
• 150g elderberries/blackberries, fresh or frozen.
• Glug of wood avens (clove root) syrup to taste
(or 3 cloves, a cinnamon stick & sugar or honey).
• Large sprig of fir (or zest of an orange).
• Large pinch hogweed seeds.
• Large pinch fennel seeds.
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Put ingredients in a pan with a lid, bring to a simmer, then heat very gently for 40 mins to an hour. If you can wait, it's best left to infuse overnight and reheated the next day. Strain through a sieve to serve, and enjoy!
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Drop in some roasted crab apples (or a few cored cooking apples) for the 'lamb's wool'. Bake at 170°C with some brown sugar sprinkled on top for 20m or so, until soft. Discard the skins, mash the apple pulp until smooth, and whisk into the cider.
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Happy Wassail from Sussex! 🍻🍎🍏 These are

Happy Wassail from Sussex! 🍻🍎🍏
These are crab apples roasted with a little brown sugar to drop into my wassail winter warmer, keeping alive a tradition that's hundreds of years old. You can still find crab apples in winter ~ the tannin and acid levels in these sour little fruits help preserve them and you can make tasty things with them (just cut out any scabby bits)! Visit my blog for crab apple ID tips and recipes ~ link in bio.👆
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Have you heard of wassail and wassailing? Let me introduce you if not...'Wassail' is a hot, mulled drink, usually made with cider or ale. To celebrate this time and extend the winter festivities a bit, I make mulled cider with local apple juice, wild berries and wild spices. Recipe to come tomorrow...🥃
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In Southern England, 'wassailing' is a ceremony going back to at least the Middle Ages, held at dusk around Twelfth Night (today on the old calendar), to awaken the apple trees and scare away evil spirits to encourage a plentiful harvest in the year ahead.👺
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Countryfolk gather in an orchard, sing and drink wassail to toast the health of the trees. The trees get a bit of the drink too, and slices of toast are speared on the branches to feed the good spirits. "Health to thee good apple tree..."🌳🎶🍞
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The apple trees are beaten with sticks to get the sap flowing, noise is made to wake the trees and shoo off bad spirits, drums are banged, pots and pans clanged, and sometimes a gun is fired overhead! 🥁
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Pink Meadow Grasshopper 💞🦗 A Grasshopper coc

Pink Meadow Grasshopper 💞🦗
A Grasshopper cocktail to kick off 2021 was suggested in @diffordsguide's last news email so I decided to make a foraged/wild version.
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The 'White Grasshopper' is a modern cocktail described by Difford's as 'creamy and indulgent but not sickly sweet, with delicate chocolate, rose, mint and zesty orange', created by world renowned Italian bartender Salvatore Calabrese @cocktailmaestro.😋
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Inspired by the White Grasshopper, I came up with this luscious cocktail using four vodkas infused with foraged ingredients, liqueur, cream and wild rose syrup. It's creamy and delicately floral with vanilla, almond, gentle mint and citrus oil notes, herbal complexity and cacao bitterness. Oh and it's pale, blush pink. Gorgeous, and you won't need dessert! 🌹🍃🍊🍫
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The 'Pink Meadow Grasshopper' is actually a rare, vivid pink colour form of the (usually green) meadow grasshopper. I'm sure they've been spotted around here before ~ I'd love to see one! We've 11 native species of grasshopper in the UK. They like to hide in tall weeds and grasses, so consider leaving some places uncut and untamed if you have a garden and want to attract them.💚🦗
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My Grasshopper contains:
Wild cherry-infused vodka
Japanese rose petal-infused vodka
Wild mint-infused vodka
Cacao nib-infused vodka
Lemon balm-infused vodka
@licor43uk (vanilla liqueur with herbs & spices)
Single cream
Wild rose syrup
Egg white
Grapefruit & orange zests
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Shaken with ice then dry shaken and fine strained. Garnished with early cherry blossom petals and heather. Rose petal sugar rim inspired by @cocktail.vision.
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Wild rum infusions.🌰🥃 Damson and chestnut...

Wild rum infusions.🌰🥃
Damson and chestnut...I'm about to strain these autumnal liquors which have been infusing since October. I've had a sneaky taste already. Delish... they'll make some cracking cocktails! 💥🥃🍸
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James foraged the chestnuts up the road and I cooked them by boiling for a couple of minutes after piercing the skin, before peeling the outer and inner skin while still warm. I infused them in golden rum with some sugar.🍂🌰
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The damsons we picked from a local hedgerow, and I've infused them in white rum.🌳💜
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Manoj Sharma
August 18, 2017 at 10:00 pm
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cooking is my passion and a hobby for me, besides, i love to eat lots of foods-
Sharleen Mccalebb
January 11, 2019 at 4:13 pm
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Thank you for this post, very informative.

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