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Wild & Raw Sea Beet & Sorrel Houmous

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Just finished eating a wild sea beet & sorrel houmous with raw sprouted chickpeas and tahini, combined with ground cumin, olive oil and tamari.

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Pickled Ash Keys

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Ash Keys (Fraxinus excelsior) provide a unique taste sensation. If you’re into Slow Food then this is certainly a slow recipe as it takes three months before you can indulge your taste buds.
One thing to make sure is that you pick your Ash Keys when they are very young, and the small seed within the [...]

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Raw Wild Garlic Houmous

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If you love houmous and love Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum), then you have got to try this Raw Wild Garlic Houmous Recipe. It will have you purring with delight.

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1930’s Nettle Beer Recipe

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The following Nettle Beer recipe was created by Maude Grieve back in the 1930’s. Maude was a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, as well as an extremely respected herbalist with an encyclopedic knowledge of medicinal plants.
During the First World War she wrote and published pamphlets on the cultivation and uses of herbal medicines. [...]

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Nettle & Ground Elder Gazpacho Soup Recipe

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I try and eat as much of my wild edible plants in their raw state as possible. In this wonderful raw soup recipe, the vibrant flavour of Ground Elder (Aegopodium podagraria) goes perfectly with the Nettles (Urtica dioica).

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Noble Peasant’s Nettle Soup Recipe

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Most people often think of soup when they talk about Stinging Nettles (Urtica dioica). For those of you that have been going on at me to give you a Nettle soup recipe, here it is.

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Stinging Nettle, Carrot & Apple Juice Recipe

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Juicing raw plants is one of the quickest ways to introduce nourishing nutrition into your body. This power-packed raw juice recipe made from Stinging Nettles (Urtica dioica), Carrots and Apples is the perfect get-up-and-go wild food drink first thing in the morning.

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Lady’s Smock & Three Cornered Leek Salad

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In this simple wild food recipe, I combine Lady’s Smock with Three Cornered Leek and tomatoes for a quick and easy side-salad.

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Ground Elder & Tempeh Recipe

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Ground Elder (Aegopodium podagraria) is a current staple wild food for my family at the moment. It’s prolific, and well worth harvesting. Try this quick vegetarian recipe, that I rustled up last night.

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Pickled Buds of Alexanders Recipe

Pickled Alexanders Buds have a heavily-scented flavour, unlike anything you have most probably tried.

Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum) are an ancient food source that goes back to Roman Times, and this is one of those recipes that you either love or it doesn’t do much for you. Personally I love pickled Alexanders buds with a strong, hard [...]

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