We wrote in a post last year about delivering a course for the Field Studies Council at Juniper Hall. This year we’re running four courses for them, the first of which is this weekend. We’ll be taking 8 people for a weekend of wild food foraging around Box Hill and can’t wait! They’ve produced a great flier […]
Nicola and I love to use venison in our meals. We’ve been meaning to try a slow cooked oriental style dish that we could cook in the woods; well Nicola has done it again and come up with absolute belter of a slow cooked sweet and sour venison. We’ve cooked ours in a pit oven, […]
Who doesn’t like prawn toast when they have a Chinese. Here we’ve added some nettles to the recipe, and it definitely is better for it. But don’t take my word for it – give it a try yourself, it’s really easy to make and tastes great. Plus nettles are good for you, so a win […]
Spring rolls are always a winner. For this recipe we’ve added some pigeon breast, and I have to say, they taste wonderful! Ingredients Pigeon breasts, sliced very finely 2cm piece of ginger, grated 1 red chilli, finely chopped 2 handfuls of ramson leaves and stems, shredded1 pepper, finely sliced 1 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp […]
We have loads of Herb Bennet growing in our beautiful ancient woodland. I knew that it had been used as a flavouring in Victorian times, but this recipe from Robin Harford to have it crispy fried as an alternative to seaweed is a real winner! Ingredients 6 handfuls of Herb Bennet leaves, chopped 2 handfuls […]
We made this ground elder and hogweed stir fry for the first time a couple of weeks ago. We were up at the camp and Nicola put this together from a few bits and pieces we had in the yurt and some ground elder and hogweed that were growing in our woodland. Ingredients 2 good […]
