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.

Wild Cherry Bakewell Cake

One of my favourite storecupboard treasures.. Wild Cherry Jam! The process of collecting and de-stoning thousands of little wild cherries...

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Cream of Nettle Soup with Garlic Mustard Oil

What an exciting time of the year early spring is. Mother nature begins to wake from her winter slumber and the green shoots and new...

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The White Dead Nettle and a delicious Quiche Recipe

I just love to have something in the fridge that I can grab on the go. Like most people weekdays are fast and furious and the time...

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Foraging Wild Herbs and three easy Wild Herb Recipes

Don’t you just love the spring, the expectation of summer to come and the new growth and green of the season is such a fresh reward after...

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Jack by the Hedge Panna Cotta with Pea Cream, Cleavers and Crispy Bacon

OK, so this recipe is a show off dish, Its a dinner party dish, and its a look what I can do with Wild Food dish! Its not a recipe of my...

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Wild Garlic Focaccia Bread Recipe

Yes, yes, and another very loud yes. You'll love this recipe if you are a lover of Italian food, Bread making, have a glut of Wild Garlic...

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Chicken Thighs with Morels

Only available on the rare occasion that you have a good glut of Morel mushrooms... I know it rarely happens, but if you are to stumble...

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Stinging Nettle and Potato Cakes

Prompted by a request for Stinging Nettle recipes, it wasn't until I looked at this blog I realised that I had been neglecting writing...

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Grey Mullet with Sea Spinach Gnocchi, Pea Puree and Sea Vegetables

One of the greatest things I look forward too as spring develops into summer is the coming of the Grey Mullet. Grey Mullet are a warm...

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Wild Strawberry and Rose Meringue Roulade with Crystallised Rose Petals

Listen, I want to own up on this one. I have a patch of wild strawberries in the garden, unfortunately where I live in Essex there simply...

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Grilled Mackerel Fillets, Horseradish Potato Salad and Wild Gooseberry Pickle

Summers here and the once underrated mackerel is back on the menu. People have woken up to the health benefits of oily fish but also the...

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Buckwheat Pancakes with Blackberries and Honey Crème Fraiche

Blackberry is back on the menu, and a quick check to see if they were ready and I had just enough for a great breakfast!! Weekend...

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Dover Sole with Chanterelle Mushrooms – Recipes

One of the best fish in the sea combined with one of the tastiest mushrooms from the forest floor, how could you go wrong? Well the...

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Blackberries or Bramble, the humblest of fruits

The humble Blackberry or Bramble, easy to identify and the starting point for even the newest of foragers, but what do we really know...

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