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Wild Food Recipes

Pickled Sea Kale

Pickled Sea Kale is one of the delights during the Forager’s year. Although scarce throughout most of the UK, down in Dorset there is four miles of the stuff. So only make this Sea Kale recipe when you find a glut of the plant.

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Ground Ivy Tempura

Voted the best plant to fritter by some local Devon foragers recently, Ground Ivy tastes awesome when prepared as tempura. Try this Ground Ivy recipe over an open fire on lazy Summer days with your family and friends.

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Sea Aster & Tomato Soup

To me Sea Aster is one of the best estuary greens. This Sea Aster recipe looks more like a gazpacho, however the delicate flavours of the Sea Aster are complimented really well by the sweet, sunny taste of the tomatoes. I fed it to a friend who usually turns her nose up at a lot [...]

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Buttered Sea Sandwort

Sea Sandwort is a scrummy little green that I like to serve on its own. I have heard it goes well in soups and broths etc. Use Sea Sandwort as a replacement to peas and other tabletop greens etc.

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Brined Alexanders

Brined Alexanders? Sounds really weird… all that salt etc. But not so, because this Alexanders recipe turned out a treat. Let the Alexanders sit in the cupboard for a couple of months before using. I make wild relishes with them.

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Pickled Wild Garlic Bulbs

My heart jumps for joy when I see the first shoots of wild garlic (Ramsons) appearing, it calls in the beginning of Spring and finally the return of the sun. There is so much you can do with wild garlic, but this simple wild garlic recipe will have your taste buds perking up at the [...]

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Dandelion Vinegar Recipe

Nothing beats the delightful taste of wildcrafted dandelion vinegar, mixed in a salad dressing it really zings up your wild green salads. Make this dandelion vinegar recipe early in the Spring before the dandelions have started developing.

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Eva’s Warm Dandelion Salad

Today was so sunny, and the Dandelion leaves looked so lush my daughter decided (after being inspired by Master Chef of which she is a total addict) to create a dandelion salad using the remaining ingredients of our fridge. Definitely a dandelion recipe that I’ll be repeating!

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A Wild Winter Herb Salad Gathered On 11th January 2011

My lover has just come back from working a few hours in my friend’s organic market garden. She tells me that they are struggling to find enough stuff to fill their salad bags. After all 2010 has been the coldest winter in a hundred years! Not so for the hedgerow salad bags I gather, which [...]

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Sea Beet Feathers & Foam

Recently I had to ‘off’ a damaged pheasant that I had found in the road. I hung it up for 4 days before calling up my mate Jon to invite him over for some feral food telling him I had some foraged pheasant and sea beet.

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