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Wild and Foraged Spring Salad
One of the joys of Spring is greens. In most cases greens, especially with young greens, they are best eaten raw. Wild greens have strong...
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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.
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Wild Garlic Pesto Recipe
Wild garlic, also known as ramps or Allium ursinum, has a long history of culinary use, including its incorporation into pesto recipes....
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Dogfish in Beer Batter with Chunky Chips and crushed Peas and Homemade Tartar Sauce
Ever seen this in a restaurant? Or even in a fish and chip shop? No you wouldn’t of.. But you might have eaten it! Dogfish known to most...
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St George's Mushrooms in a creamy sauce with Wild Sorrel on toast
If you are lucky enough to have found a patch of these delicious mushrooms why not try this simple but yummy recipe. Fancy growing your...
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Wild Boar Sausages with Garlic Mustard Polenta and St George Mushroom Sauce
Do you ever just crave something?? I had been to a farmers market and clearly the Wild Boar sausages that I had bought had been calling...
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Pan Fried Cod Fillet with Garlic Mustard Mash and Wild Sorrel Sauce
This is a recipe that I created a while back but didn’t write up. I wish I had done it sooner as it is simply brilliant and delicious,...
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Smoothound and Chorizo Pasty
Do you know when your just on the verge of a great idea and you just can’t quite finish it off in your mind. Well I did on Saturday...
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Prawn and Sea Vegetable Frittata Recipe
The day before I had been fishing, although I had caught no sizeable fish for the pot I did manage to make some time to forage some...
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Iced Rose Tea, Lime Blossom Tea, Lavender Hot Chocolate
What could be more luxurious than making delicious drinks from flowers. Not just healthy drinks, but simply divine drinks! Why not spoil...
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Lavender Scones with Lavender Honey Cream
Scones and Lavender, what could be more quintessentially British! This recipe makes an incredibly light dough, mainly due to the sour...
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Gooseberry and Elderflower Fool
Sometimes you just don’t have time to go out and make an elderflower cordial so here is a dessert that uses Elderflowers in their natural...
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Pickled Dandelion Buds three ways
Dandelion buds or the unopened flower buds are readily known as a wayside nibble. These bitter tasting and soft textured buds lend...
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Elderflower Champagne Recipe and problem solving flat Champagne
Elderflower champagne is a sparkling, mildly-alcoholic beverage made from elderflowers, sugar, lemons, and water. It is a traditional and...
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Wild Rose Petal Jam Recipe
The wild rose or the dog rose blooms are simply underrated. In the UK, they line our roadsides and when they all bloom together light up...
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Ras el Hanout with Rose Petals: Make your own spice mix
Here’s one you probably won’t have tried a Moroccan spice blend called Ras el Hanout. This translates to ‘top of the shop’ or as we might...
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Wild Raspberry and a Wild Raspberry and Thyme Flower Custard Tart
This is a seriously fantastic recipe and an unusual combination that I am sure the more you think about the more you’ll think.. Hmmmm...
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Dandelion Flower Schnapps and Schnapps Recipes
Time for something a little more adult.. So you want to make hard liquor do you! Well with this recipe you can use either fresh dandelion...
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Any Flower Syrup Recipe
Any flower means any edible flower of course, but there is also another stipulation.. The flower of choice has to have a definitive...
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Wild Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe: The Ultimate Version!
This dish in luxury in every sense, your going to need to forage a lot of wild strawberries and everything is full fat. Not everyone is...
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Wild Cherry Jam Conserve
Back from a weekend away in the UK and the weather was still all good - amazing. Just enough time to check on a group of wild cherry...
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