Wild And Free!

[Chipchopper]

Tonight its steak and chips with mushrooms from the lawn.
ummmm!

What you got ?

[Cloverjo]

I made an apple and blackberry crumble. Apples from my dad’s trees and blackberries growing wild in my garden. I don’t eat it myself, but I love making it.

[Cloverjo]

Are you sure the mushrooms are ok to eat, chipchopper?

[237SJ]

Was going to have chicken with some sort of coconut and lemongrass mix that I brought back from somewhere in the Far East which expired in June 2019 but fancy a pizza instead. Have made the chicken dish to freeze. It smells really nice but when you want a pizza, you have to have a pizza.

[Jackdaw33]

//...when you want a pizza, you have to have a pizza.\\
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A variant on, "When you gotta go, you gotta go".

[diddlydo]

Loads of wild and free stuff out there at the moment - blackberries, elderberries, cobnuts, bullaces - there for the taking!

[Tilly2]

I don't know what to do with Elderberries, apart from make wine. What else can you do with them?

[237SJ]

I`ve been looking for elderberries to make wine with - can't find them anywhere around here.

[Tilly2]

You're in the wrong place, 237. :-)

[david small]

Fish pie from Iceland.

[237SJ]

Tilly - I know. Someone told me where there were some growing about 4 miles from here so we might go and have a look.

[Tilly2]

My dad was an avid mushroom picker. He would get up early and go out collecting them and come back and cook them for breakfast. I used to trust his judgement but I'm afraid that I have lost the wherewithal to recognise a field mushroom from a not so friendly fungus.

[237SJ]

We used to pick mushrooms in October if I remember rightly. You might be Wild and Free if you got them from your lawn now

[Vagus]

We had sausage baguettes followed by strawberries, Madeira cake and cream. With a few margaritas to whet the appetite.

[Chipchopper]

Cloverjoe, Yes 100% sure they are edible, I would'nt touch them otherwise.
Learning which ones are poisonous is more important than vice versa.
Much more flavour than those sold in shops!

[pastafreak]

Tonight it was shell on garlic and chilli red shrimp fried in butter, with avocado,tomato and red onion salad, creme brulee for afters, jammy red roo to drink.

[Rosie29]

Sounds a beautiful birthday dinner Pasta - hope you enjoyed it.

[woofgang]

Tilly they are full of vitamin C. You can make a syrup with them. Add a little food quality glycerine for a soothing syrup or mix with hot water for a comforting drink.

[Chipchopper]

Sounds like all good stuff going down!
I polished it off with a tub of Ben and Jerry's, so I'm full and satisfied now.

[Tilly2]

Thank you, Woof. I'll have a look at that.

Chip, do tell how you know what you're doing with mushrooms.

[alavahalf]

All picked fresh this morning..
Carrot, french beans, onion, chard, fennel,
peas, spring onion, sweet pepper, basil, coriander, shallot, chilli pepper... that's before I made the stir fry sauce.
Chilli, ginger, garlic, sesame oil, lime juice and honey.
Pudding.. Apple raspberry, blackberry and pear crumble, all picked yesterday !
Forgot to mention.. a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc .
Does that cover me for my 5 a day ?