Posts tagged “wild food

in season

Posted on August 20th, 2012

Earlier this week I wrote about eating in season, and I mean really eating whats in season, not whats available all year round in your supermarket. It makes sense to me to do so, you’re eating whats the freshest at that particular time of year…not what’s grown thousands of miles away and requires refrigeration or treatment to get to the stores shelves. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea I know, but I enjoy the approach of the long wait of a full year until the ingredient returns to the season. I’ll cook it when I can either grow it, forage it or legally hunt it. I work for many of meals, I don’t work to earn money to buy all my ingredients, just some….the…

it’s wild and brilliant

Posted on May 3rd, 2012

Bear with me guys. I know this time of year I go on about wandering through the forests looking for the autumn culinary delight that is the wild mushroom, but I can’t help it. It’s a real love of mine. I look forward to it so much, and when it arrives I truly cherish it like god loves the poor. At the beginning of the season I tend to cook the mushrooms in the most basic of ways with minimal added flavours. This way I get to close my eyes with each mouthful and enjoy that woody earthy taste of the Saffron Milk Cap and the slimy ‘porcini-esqness’ of the Slippery Jack. As the season continues I start adding extra flavours like chorizo, salami…