UK Wild Food Foraging with some game, wild brewing, recipes, herbal remedies and some adventures in there too. The travels of a foodie hunter gatherer around Sussex learning the skills needed to forage in the UK and create the best wild food dishes. Courses available through Hunter Gather Cook website
...Or fillets of Perch in a
Nettle Puree, sometimes it just sounds better in French.
Below is the recipe I made from the lovely fish Rick caught me. It was sods law that the camera ran out of battery just as I plated it up, so you'll have to use your imagination. I can assure you it looked and tasted great though! I plan to make it again soon and will put up a picture but will definitely use more Perch fillets next time as it wasn't big enough to share.
I’ve never been much of a fisherman;
in fact, I’ve never caught a single fish.In theory, I’m all for sitting quietly by a river or lake with a rod and
line with only my thoughts for company, but in practice, I find my limited
patience is not well suited for the sport.
Fortunately for me, my good
friend Rick is very patient and a
seasoned fisherman to boot.Rick
graciously agreed to help me catch some fish from a stretch of Ouse not far
from my house.I was the one tasked
with dispatching the fish as Rick is more of traditionalist when it comes to
fishing and usually puts them back.
Below, is a timelpase of
Rick expertly catching 3 Perch for my dinner, whilst I tried to entertain
myself as best I could.
06.07.12.
One winch at a time in the Monkey Woods.
A
friend of ours, Nick, is fortunate enough to have five acres of woodland in a
very picturesque part of Sussex.
It’s a great place to spend time sitting by a fire and cooking the odd sausage
in the summer months. Sadly, of
late the experience has been less than pleasant; we’ve been forced to sit feeling
sorry for ourselves under tarpaulins - trying to pretend it’s not raining.
We
had had almost given up the woodland dream, when Nick met Sandy at a gypsy themed party.
Nick, being a sensitive soul, fell hopelessly in love with her at first sight.
Sandy the caravan - www.hazydayscaravanhire.co.uk/
OK,
so I know caravans aren’t all that cool, but you haven’t met Sandy. As Sandy is already spoken for, Nick
decided he needed one just like her in the Monkey Woods. So along came the Compass 342, fresh
from the fields of Kent.
Admittedly
she’s no Sandy but we’re working on it.
Four
of us met at the gates to the Monkey Woods in anticipation of the delivery of
the Compass. After 15 minutes of
good progress with the four of us pushing and pulling, the poor compass was
thoroughly stuck in a rut. With
the promise of a free meal, I shot off home to grab a winch and dragged her up
onto even ground where she sits proudly as queen of the woods.
So
now we can escape to the woods, whatever the weather and the sound of the rain
drumming on the roof is rather nice, actually. Watch this space for some foraging experiments from the caravan kitchen.
