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Wild Food and Foraging Blog
Welcome to the Wild Foodie's Wild Food and Foraging Blog. Here we love to share information on the wonderful flora and fauna available to the wild cook. Blogs and guides about wild edible plants and foraging for wild food. Find recipes, identification tips, foraging stories and adventures alongside seasonal suggestions and foraging calenders and so much more.
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Prawn and Marsh Samphire Pasta Recipe
The weather was glorious this weekend and I spent most of it on or near the water. I had been fishing for a Mullet, Bass… Even a small...
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Smoothound Coconut Curry with Lemon Pilaf Rice
Smoothound is a strong flavoured fish and can be matched with other strong flavours. This is recipe is a version of a South Indian...
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Fillet of Grey Mullet with Wild Fennel Potatoes and Sea Vegetables
Amazingly you never hear about Grey Mullet, not on the TV cooking programmes nor is it commonly on the restaurant menus. Even when I...
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Cromer Crab Cakes with Wild Fennel and Samphire Mayonnaise
Listen, I know that I bought the crabs.. I did however forage the samphire and the wild fennel – the wild fennel came from just outside...
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American Style Pancakes with Wild Soft Fruits
The most important meal of the day – breakfast! And this sweet treat won’t let you down. The pancakes are light and fluffy and full of...
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Wild Duck with Blackberries
This recipe utilises one of those great pairings. Blackberries and Duck! Although not as famous as other pairings such as Pork and Apple,...
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Rosehip Slice or Pie Recipe
Here’s an unusual old English recipe that uses Rose Hips (any of the edible hips can be used). The rosehip tart is brought up to date by...
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Wild Blackberry Clafoutis Recipe
I just can’t find enough ways to enjoy one of the most plentiful and superbly flavoured berries. That's why I have written so many...
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Hawthorn Berry Chutney with Thyme
I was always told as a child that all red berries were poisonous.. Potentially a life saving lesson for a very curious child who was...
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Wild Damsons and a Damson Custard Tart Recipe
Wild damsons, yellow or deep purple bullaces, wild plums or even feral greengages in fact any of the wild stoned fruits will work with...
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Roast Grouse with Chicory and Elderberry Sauce
What can you say about this recipe.. Mouth wateringly satisfying! You can use any game bird with this dish as Elderberry matches with all...
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Lavender and Bilberry Cheesecake
You are going to like this recipe.. If you love cheesecake, prepare to have a new favourite. The full bodied sweetness of these little...
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Sloe Gin
Sloe Gin, the ruin of old women.. Or tasty cooking ingredient? Either way one thing is for sure, its fantastic taken out in a hip flask...
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Hot Yellow Bullace Chutney
I am spoilt for choice where I live for these fantastic little wild fruits. Every hedgerow seems to have damson, bullace or wild plum,...
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Trio of Blackberry Desserts; Blackberry Sorbet, Blackberry Mousse, Soused Blackberry Crumble
The blackberry or bramble. I like to cook and write recipes about more unusual foods and secret tastes long forgotten but there is...
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Spaghetti Tetrazzini with Bay Bolete Recipe
So its Mushroom season and I stumble across a new piece of woodland that is densely populated with a member of the Bolete family – the...
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Horse Mushrooms and how to cook them.
Horse Mushrooms always get my heart pumping. You normally see them before any other mushrooms floating above the green grass like huge...
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Any Fish Stew
The reason that I love fishing is the surprise.. You simply never know what you are going to catch. In the winter most sea fisherman are...
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Wild Rose Petal Jam Roly Poly
Its Mid-Winter, the nights are cold there isn't many fresh foods around let alone wild foods.. And my stomach yearns for the Spring to...
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Venison Stew with Wild Marjoram Dumplings Recipe
Winter is all about hearty foods and puds. It's a time to pillage your summer and autumn Wild plunders and preserves and cook next to a...
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