Okay a few things are not foraged, but i grew them, or I got raw from the dairy farm. But today was an extremely busy day! I have taken over my friends farm,,called Renfem Gard, or Five Foxes Farm. So after a day working in the fields, on my walk home, i wondered what the heck i was going to have for dinner. Well while i was away, Phillpe (our frenchman) went fishing and caught 3 small cods. So I picked on the way home as i walked along the beach, and this is what I come home with. Okay, lets start at the radishes,, those are from my little garden next to the house, working our way up, next to that is wild lettuce, wild sorrel leaves (what was left after i used the most for dinner), dandelion leaves, angelica leaves and stalks (the stalks taste just like celery), chickweed in the center, and some wild ramps, also there was parsley and tarragon that i grow. I made a nice green salad out of that and topped it off with oil, salt and brown vinegar. Before all that I had to use up the last of the potatoes that was from last yrs. harvest. So I made a potato and wild sorrel soup, with angelica stalks, ramps, chives from the garden and wild caraway leaves. I made homemade bread the other day, called fullkorn, or what would be the equivlent to a 9 grain bread. And the cod is wrapped in ramp leaves, and stuffed with dill from the garden, butter i make from raw milk, salt and pepper. There you go, dinner complements of Mother Nature herself. Ahhhh, she treats us so good.
Good grief, I got all hungry again now! You're very good at picking as you go, I'm awed. I think I need to re-learn a few of my former skills, I can feel the interest awake, thanks to your inputs.
It all looks delicious, I would love try everything. I won't go into how little of that my family would eat but they could go pick up burgers while I feasted. Do you have a recipe for the soup or did you just throw a little of this and a pinch of that in the pot? I love a good potato soup.
Thank you Droopy,, KB come home today from work with an issue of Ottar, the little magazine here. After i got done cooking, and all of us eating, he says,,,ohh yeah, i think you might like this. I can say it is well written about Norways wild plants and what to do with them,, I'm still reading it, but if you can get a copy of it called, Spiselige Planter, issue 3, 2008,,its well worth it so far. It might help you down that way. ohh yeah the wild sorrel we know as the sour grass.
It is a little of this and a little of that. No set recipe, just water potatoes, sorrel and the rest, some butter, salt and pepper, and raw milk. Thats it. I do wish more people would try to eat from nature, they would be so surprised how much tastes just like the store bought produce, but better, and fresher... Thanks Toni,, if i ever get back to America soon, I promise i will make you a full foragers dinner of somekind... remember my son will be stationed back in Az. And my daughter now moved to the Gulf in Alabama....It could happen,,,lol.
Can't decide which floors me more, the meal you made or the fact that you made it after a full day's work!
heh heh heh... good one, Critter! I was thinking the exact same thing. Well Biits--who's to say that a person can't forage in his own garden? You did well and I've been waiting and waiting and waiting for another one of your foraging posts. It's just so interesting to see what you pick to eat and how nice it looks once made. I really like the foraging posts.
lol,, thanks all,, Its chopping and throwing it all together, not alot of work involved at all. Plus i have 2 other people i can order around if their brave enough to step into my kitchen when dinner is being made!
Oh I love to forage also Biita, but I can never get as many greens as that! I do eat the dandelion, but can't eat the angelica that I grow in the garden as I am so alergic to it, the same as I am to parsnip foliage and it causes me huge burns. I tend to forage more for fruits, things I recognise. I need to get me a good foragers guide and start being more adventurous.
