here's a recipe that's all but free,all the main ingredients can be found free in the hedgerows and woods at this time of year.
You will need:
2 fresh rabbits
4 good hand fulls of fresh nettle tops
a good sized bunch of wild garlic:
a small handful of wild violet leaves:
a little seasoned flour
a little cooking oil or lard
2 pints of chicken stock or 4 oxo's.
prepare yer rabbits and joint them:
then toss them in the seasoned flour til browning,place them in a casserole dish,now deglase the pan with the stock and set to oneside.wash and chop the nettlesand violet leaves,(violet leaves will thicken the stock as arrow root or cornflour would) add to the casserole dish,chop the whites of the wild garlic and then add too including the garlic flowers.
now pour the stock over and place in a moderate oven for 2 1/2 hours.
serve with a salad of young primrose leaves , cowslip leaves , dandelion leaves and hawthorn shoots,some boiled bull rush roots would be a free potato substitute. its a good free meal!
as with all wild gathered foods be sure you know that you have gathered the correct plants.
wildman
damn good post fish! i'm a forager myself. just looking at this post makes me hungry! so what time is dinner? let me know and i'll jump in my private jet and be there in time for dinner!
HA! i don't even have a damn car, much less a jet. never hurts to dream though does it.
tc,
wildman
mayfly
Well WM, With a back yard like the one u have, a vast one at that and all u cna eat, i wouldnt be worring about the jet...
fish
ille save you some WM!!
steve
sounds like a really tasty meal fish.
Baldryk
That sounds good,ive got more wild garlic than i can handle at my place,lovely.
never hurts to dream though does it.
