This recipe was inspired by the Wild Gourmets and we first tried it on our fantastic trip to the Isle of Arran with Arran Bushcraft & Survival. They taste absolutely wonderful and are a good source of carbs. Ideally you want to harvest them at the end of the plant’s first year or the start […]
We used a mixture of shop bought and foraged mushrooms when we made this. If you aren’t completely, absolutely, 100% certain about your fungi identification, don’t use foraged mushrooms! Ingredients 1kg of mixed mushrooms A large knob of butter A large splash of olive oil A red onion, finely sliced 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped […]
I’ve written before about natural tinders, and I’ve got a few new ones to add to the list. On our recent (and totally awesome) trip to the Isle of Arran with Arran Bushcraft & Survival, we found ourselves in some different habitats and found some new natural tinders on our wanders. The main camp was based in a conifer […]
This straightforward recipe originally came from Marcus Harrison. There are heaps of plums on the farm and so Nicola and I collected a bag full over the weekend. We’ve had it with a stir fry and it was fantastic. Ingredients 1kg of plums 600ml of water 300g of sugar 1/4 tsp each of ground ginger, […]
We made this delicious blackberry ketchup on our last Wildfoods & Woodland Cooking course at the beginning of October. Really tasty and it went really well with pigeon breast. Ingredients Blackberries ½ pint Cider Vinegar 1/3 cup Water 2 tbsp Brown sugar 1/3 cup Butter 1 tbsp Lemon Zest 1 tbsp Chinese five spice ½ […]
On our last Carving course Miles, one of the participants, asked me if I could send a list of the various carving and bushcraft tools that we’d been using over the weekend. Instead I thought I’d write a post covering some of the bushcraft tools we use on a regular basis. This first photo below shows […]
