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Rosehip Steamed Pudding with Rose Scented Custard
When the autumn months get cooler, the culinary mind starts to turn back to comfort food. However a latent part of the mind, that seeks...
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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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Wild Rose Petal Water Recipe
Rose water has a long history of culinary uses, particularly as a flavouring agent. Its delicate floral aroma and taste make it a popular...
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Wild Rose & Pistaccio Turkish Delight
My favourite sweet as a kid. Turkish delight, also known as lokum. Turkish delight is a confectionery that originated in Turkey and has...
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Puffball Mushroom Pizza
If you love mushrooms, this is the pizza recipe for you. This takes pizza in a new direction and with the most curious of doughs....
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Mackerel wrapped in Horseradish Leaves with a Mustard Sauce
This pairing of wild horseradish and mackerel is well known, perhaps with apple too. However, the secret to this recipe is not to use the...
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Japanese Knotweed: From invasive weed to tasty dessert!
Japanese Knotweed is a fast growing invasive weed which can burst through concrete and masonry, causing significant damage to properties....
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Chocolate and Wild Hazelnut Cake
The race for Hazelnuts each year is a matter of timing. To late and those industrious squirrels will have them all and too early and the...
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Hedge Garlic Panna Cotta with Pea Cream and Cleavers Recipe
OK, so this recipe is a show off dish, Its a dinner party dish, and it's a look what I can do with wild food dish! It's not a recipe of...
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Wild Pheasant and Foraged Chestnut Stew
As it is Winter there isn’t many great opportunities to go out and gather wild foods, so I thought I would kick the Wild Food recipes off...
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Wild Venison and Chanterelle Mushroom Wellington
One of my favourite recipes of the Autumn is Wild Venison and fresh Chanterelle Mushroom Wellington.. Absolutely delicious!! Still...
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Sweet Violet Scented Creams with Crystalised Sweet Violet Flowers
I realised that I had been spending too much time simply providing you with identification guides and seasonal information.. As much as I...
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Jack by the Hedge or Garlic Mustard Chicken Kiev Recipe
So I had to go out and have a look around.. It’s that time of the year and I was wondering if any Morels were showing yet. Spring really...
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Stinging Nettle Gnocchi with Dolcelatte Sauce
Once you have cooked this recipe you are never going to look at a stinging nettle in the same way again. Admittedly, this recipe is an...
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Thornback Ray Meuniere with Nutmeg Mashed Potato
Fresh Thornback Ray wings or Roker sitting in the fridge, time to treat the fish as it should be treated. This recipe is a delicious...
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Wild Flavoured Pasta Dough Recipes
As you can tell, although I am a staunch British food fanatic and local food enthusiast, I also love Italian food… A lot of my recipes...
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Tortellini with Italian Cheeses, Lemon, Garlic Mustard with Sage Butter
I was recently asked on my Facebook page to write a vegetarian recipe.. A little difficult for a fisherman in the middle of a spring run...
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Skate Cheeks recipe with Chorizo, Peas Lemon and Parsley Linguini.
Skate cheeks… Near impossible to get and not many people would have had the opportunity. Unless you are blessed with an excellent...
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Fisherman's Pie with Sea Spinach
What luxury… After my fishing trip on Easter Monday I had some white fish fillets sitting in the fridge. I also knew that I had some...
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Chicken Breast with Morels, Madeira Cream and Pilaf Rice
What a great days urban mushroom hunting on Sunday.. I yielded 30+ morel mushrooms with a good proportion of them of a good size. The...
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Goats Cheese Soufflé with Sea Spinach
Continuing my one man mission to convince that this underrated leaf is superior to its inland loving cousin I have created this recipe....
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