So you’ve been out and found a whole load of wild mushrooms, firstly you need to make sure they’re edible – have a quick look at our intro guide here or you can look at our entire mushroom guide list here. If you’re still not sure why not join us on a…
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This Wild Mushroom risotto recipe is full flavoured, creamy and delicious. The best thing about this recipe is that you can add whatever wild mushrooms you find to flavour it. Wild mushrooms will add the most amazing, deep and flavoursome sauce to this recipe. This dish will reflect the place…
Fruit Leather always reminds me of chewy sweets and is the perfect thing to take out on a long walk as a snack. Rose hips are high in vitamin C and were often collected during times of famine to increase peoples intake of vitamins and minerals. Flavour-wise I always describe…
This risotto recipe is full flavoured, creamy and delicious. The best thing about this recipe is that you can add whatever wild ingredients you find to flavour it – meaning it will reflect the place you forage from and ingredients you can pick easily. Think chopped dandelion leaves, a sprig…
This Elderflower Cheesecake recipe is a fantastic way to enjoy the seasons most fine elderflowers with a refreshing floral and intense musky flavour that will finish off any meal perfectly. Click here to see our Elder Foraging Guide Ingredients for this Elderflower Cheesecake Recipe: 1 x Pack of Digestives –…
We recently had our first “Forage & Feast” foraged picnic of the year, and as luck would have it, the wild garlic (Allium ursinum) had just begun to come through locally. So, my talented wife Samantha decided to incorporate the wild garlic into a very simple recipe for sausage rolls.…
I found wild poppies growing nearby, in a safe and un-polluted local environment and they looked amazing, so I left them alone; Until they’d gone to seed that is! Once they’ve gone to seed and the seed head is ready to disperse its seeds, they’re fair game. So what to…
Identifying trees in Winter is hard. It isn’t too bad in Spring, Summer and Autumn; But during the winter, when there are no leaves, flowers or fruits on show, it’s pretty tricky. Its a useful skill however, that can really take your foraging to the next level… Why trees? What…
If you’ve been around foragers in winter, or been reading about it, or been foraging yourself, the chances are that you’ve come across the expression “bletting“; But what does it actually mean? Simple definition of bletting Well, at its simplest it’s a stage of fruit development in-between ripening and rotting.…