A week in my house eating just foraged food

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Im on woodlouse patrol tomorrow half a pint is required I quite like them myself , today was very cold here I took a group up at the red lion and it was bitter

[Xylaria]

Common ink caps, I have made a mushroom pate with them. it looks like laver bread but it tastes all right. These are the ink cap you cant have with alcohol.


Well I cant fault the view.

Some winkles huddled together probalbly for warmth and my extremely cold foot.

This laver. I going to cook mine for short while, not make laver bread.

Velvet tough shank, I took the biggest and left the tiddlers for another day.

Haws, not common this time of year most have been eaten by birds. Not the best tasting fruit in a british hedgerow but it has a nutritional value all the same.

More ink caps but this time they are mica ink cap or there abouts. the bits on the cap that are vital to get his little fella down to species had fallen off. It is edible, as so are its relations.

Nice bit of watercress. Had in a soup yesterday.

Today I made stew with some left over veg stock, the bladderwrack and then thickened with bulrush root. It was very filling.

[Xylaria]

Today was an easier day. this morning after a not inspiring breakfast of apple pulp and sprouted roasted wheat. I found the wheat last week growing on wasteland outside some houses, I know what ergot looks like, but generally wild cereals should collected with care because of this. I spent the morning in the kitchen making a mess. I stewed up the half the bladderwrack in the pressure cooker, with some leftover veg stock and the "stogy hairballs" leftover processing the bulrushes. The resultant soup was very filling. there was that much of it, that is basically what I have eaten today. The bulrushes where split open and the inner scraped out, they were then crushed in basin of hot water. This results in a grey goo. when i have done this in the past after a few days of drying the grey goo become a hard grey cake. In an attempt to improve this i added the haws i picked yesterday in a deseeded pulp. This gave a pale brown goo. well after much reducing and oven cooking this is now a pretty tasteless paste.

Pulping bulrush roots

The resultant goo after haw pulp is added.
In the afternoon we collected thistle roots, sorrel and crab apples. We did hunt for woodlice as well but didnt get very many. I have just baked off the last of the bladderwrack into crisps.

[JonnyP]

Fantastic.. You are an inspiration Fi..

[Xylaria]

Originally Posted by JonnyP

Fantastic.. You are an inspiration Fi..

He foraged some road kill, a blue tit.

Do woodlice hiberate?

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What I foraged today

[JonnyP]

Originally Posted by Xylaria

He foraged some road kill, a blue tit.

Do woodlice hiberate?

No, don't think so.. I saw plenty of them about yesterday when we took an old wall down. Try peeling the bark off old logs lying about outside. They love places like that.

[Xylaria]

Originally Posted by JonnyP

No, don't think so.. I saw plenty of them about yesterday when we took an old wall down. Try peeling the bark off old logs lying about outside. They love places like that.

The ones we found were really deep in the wood, and dopey. Generally unpeel bark and they are legging it everywhere.

[Xylaria]

My breakfast laver, bulrush paste, thistle roots, and velvet tough shank fried in ramson butter.

it felt like enough until my daughter got up and cooked cheese on toast.

[scrumpy]

Did you share the bluetit or did Mick make a feast of it for himself?

Surely the old man can catch a rabbit or a couple of pidgeons with his air rifle?