Foods for free. Anything you want to post about wild foods or foraging, hunting and fishing. Please note, this section includes pictures of hunting.
Sorry to say that Selfsufficientish or anyone who posts on here is liable to make a mistake when it comes to identification so we can't be liable for getting it wrong.
Do you eat it? do you love it?
I do and I do..........we've been pigging on it recently..........I generally make pesto with it and put it on home made pasta just makes me feel so luxuriously healthy. I also stuffed a trout with a variation of the pesto last week I made a tortilla with potatoes and wild garlic.........my Nieghtbours walking past remarked on the smell and said it smelt delicious.........this is an achievement...........They were French and I'm English............see the English can cook
Wild garlic is my favourite, use it in stews, salads. Bulbs go great in a stew. Or if your out in the great outdoors put a couple bulbs on the embers of your fire. Taste great.
Ive not managed to find any, can anyone give me some idea if Im looking for the right stuff? Ive been told it looks just like chives, sadly all Ive found so far is chives
Failing that, anyone know a source in or around trowbridge? Ta
There's stuff that looks like chives and I think (maybe wrong) that that is wild onion the stuff I'm talking about has quite broad leaves and a single clove as a root. We eat the leaves and the root the flowers are good in salad too. The nearest thing appearance wise is lily of the valley but don't eat lily of the valley cos I think it's poisonous. You can tell them apart because lily of the valley smells like flowers and wild garlic like well garlic. It tends to grow in woods/shadey and quite often near streams/rivers it seems to like dark damp environments.........you can smell it when there's a good clump and if it's growing it's usually in a good clump......
I found some today YAY - it smells gorgeous and I can't wait to use it... pesto sounds an interesting recipe... and glad to hear that it freezes Andy!!
Today I saw a bottle of sauce made by moniack something or other - lovely bottle and I have in the past eaten it... bit pricey at £3.50 so I decided I would find a recipe to make my own
Loads of interesting recipes here from wild garlic soup to chili spiked wild garlic!! mmmmm - think I had better take a few baskets out tomorrow. Are you 'allowed' to dig it up and replant some in own garden???
You are not allowed to dig up anything without the landowners permission. Even if there is loads of it all over the place and it would aid to biodiversity in an area and there is no-one looking and you don't disturb any of the other plants that could be rare. So no you are not allowed to dig it up. I tried asking south gloustershires permission to dig up burdock recently but was declined. I do live in the middle of about 5 councils though so I will keep trying.
I like the idea of wild garlic pesto, never thought of that will have to give it a go. Nice one.
