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Foraging & wild food cookery & cocktail courses, walks & talks.
Wild food & drink recipes.
Nature conservation, botany geek, writer.
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Chanterelle lasagne ✨🧡✨ Yum ~ summer 'shro

Mix wild cocktails with me!🍸🌺🌼🌿 Hens

🌹🌸 Elderflower and rose Turkish delight 🌸

🌿🍄 Oyster mushroom & black bean tacos 🌮🌿
DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO PHOTOGRAPH A TACO with one hand while holding it in the other??!! It's NOT EASY I can tell you! All the filling wants to fall out! 😅😆

Anyway sorry for shouting 🙈 just had to get that off my chest 😏

...So lucky to find oyster mushrooms (well James found them 🕵🏼‍♂️) they're such a good texture for something like this, pan-fried until just turning crispy, and being mild-tasting they absorb flavours brilliantly. I hope this looks as good as it tasted. Pretty darn good! All the umamis and meatiness but no meat.🤤

Encased in a tortilla: 🌮
Wild oyster mushrooms marinated in spices and garlic with a dash of soy and balsamic.🍄
Black beans & sweetcorn with tomato puree.🌽
Young ground elder leaves.🌿
James' mum's lettuce 🥬 (thanks Margaret).
Fresh tomato salsa.🍅
Tahini drizzle.🥄
Edible flowers: Green alkanet and catsear petals 💠

#wildfeast #oystermushrooms #vegantacos #wildfood #wildmushrooms #wildfoodlove #wildtacos #foraging #foraged #forager

Yay! 🙌 Wild oyster mushroom tacos coming up....

Camping cocktails: Dirty Elderflower Mojito✨🌿

Evanescent elderflower.✨🌿 Every year she deli

Wild hop shoot risotto with chanterelles 🌱💛

HELLOOOO chanterelles! 🌟💛 👋 I see you pee

The first bluebells are here! 💙 East Sussex is

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

Beautiful blackthorn blossom 💮 Bursting into bl

Turkeytail / Trametes versicolor 🦃 An attractiv

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

🍃🧀Stilton and wild garlic scones🧀🍃 Her

Wild Awake Ireland cocktail ☕☘️ I've named t

Stilton and Wild Garlic Scones 🍃🧀 Served wit

🍒 Storm the Sazerac⚡ It was Absinthe Day yest

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

A cheeky acorn brew 🌳🧺☕ Hello 👋 hope yo

Three-cornered Leek / Allium triquetrum 🌱 ...th

Pretty pancakes with blossom syrup 🌸💗🥞 Ma

🌲🍒Black Forest🍒🌲 Wild cherry and choco

🍃🚦Green Light🚦🍃 Have you ever used cle

Winter wild herbs and greens!🌿🍃🥗 I've jus

🌼White Goddess Fizz☀️ Celebrating the ancie

Three-cornered Leek Guacamole 🥑🌱 Foraged thr

Douglas Fir Soda 🌲🌸 Fresh, sparkling and sop

Beetroot, lentil and horseradish soup with wild ga

Vegan Wild Garlic, Hazelnut & Raw Kale Pesto 🍃

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