Tag: winter

There’s nothing better than coming in from a day of hunting mushrooms, prepping the ingredients, popping in this pie, warming up in the bath & then coming down to a piping hot wild mushroom & chicken pie. I must admit, it always tastes better when you’ve picked the mushrooms yourself…

Gorse  / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible   Common Names Gorse, Prickly broom, furze Botanical Name Ulex Europaeus Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Fabales  Family – Fabaceae Physical Characteristics for Gorse  Gorse is a woody shrub that can grow to be 0.5–2.5 m tall  Leaves…

This is a really nice way to get some use out of the very common Acorn and use up some of those bananas that you had forgotten all about. With this Banana bread made with acorn flour!  Ingredients: 1 cup of leached acorn flour  2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups…

Elderberries contain a huge amount of flavour notes, making them perfect for Elderberry Wine, they also contain suitable amounts of tannin to make them especially good when turned in to a delicious deep, earthy and fruity red wine. Best served with game meats or as a night time tipple. Furthermore…

This cake is a classic for me, the roasted dandelion root imparts everything that’s brilliant about it – it doesn’t have the acidity of regular coffee and therefore isn’t over powering as a flavour, however it has a reminiscent flavour of chocolate without having to put any in to the…

  Elderberries best suit savoury foods and this sticky elderberry cabbage is the perfect accompaniment for a Sunday roast. It’s best to freeze the berries in early October and use them when needed. Makes enough to serve 6 as a side. Ingredients: Large Red Cabbage – thinly slice 1 tbsp…