Spent a weekend in the woods and collected a few mushies plus some fresh squirrel! I've also had a bumper crop of sweet chestnuts and walnuts from trees down the road. So i had a superb stew made largely from wild local food, apart from the flour (Waitrose farm in Hampshire), thyme (Dennis' allottment), salt (Maldon's, Essex), oil (olive but local rapeseed would be perfectly good substitute. I just happen to have a five gallon bottle of olive oil that was given so am making good use of it!) and carrots (Abel & Cole). Here is my recipe for squirrel stew, incorporating Tristram's suggestions about the first stage for the meat: Preparation stage: 1 squirrel, skiined and prepared ( see Flickr for details of how to do this) A few ounces of flour with salt and thyme mixed in Oil For the stew 1 or more penny buns (cep mushroom) A few spiny puffballs Handful of Amethyst Deceivers Handful of sweet chestnuts , peeled Handful of walnuts Water 6 medium size Chopped carrots Sp
Fuck me, you lot want to get a life!!
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ReplyDeleteHello guys, a German bookseller of my acquaintance told me about your challenge. Just had a look - really interesting. Sounds like you are having a lot of fun with this, East Anglian sugar beets - who would have thought it?
ReplyDeleteApologies if you have covered this, but have you looked into organic food delivery? Able & Cole offer a good weekly delivery. I have no idea if they would meet your challenge criteria.
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Rab in Edinburgh
Hi rab, great to hear from you and thanks for the tip. I actually emailed Abel & Cole about it and have had a friendly reply but they can't help much as they have to ALSO be organic. Similarly the local health food shop (Oliver's) were very friendly and responsive but couldn't offer much and asked us to tell them about any suppliers we discover. Apparently there just aren't that many organic farms in the SE. Of course our diet makes no restirctions on how the the food is produced, just where.
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