Pieminister, the posh pie folk from Bristol came down to stay here with us for a couple of days earlier this year to forage for their new cook book (A pie for all seasons) and to use our place as a pie photoshoot location. It was a great couple of days and now their cook book is on the shelves. …
Back at the end of May Waitrose came to take photos of me foraging and cooking for a photographic feature on people who work outside with food. It will be in the August edition of the Waitrose magazine. "It won't take long" he said, and after 4 hours of posing supposedly naturally with my hat tilted at just the right…
Countryfile came down to film me again a couple of weeks ago. It was aired last Sunday 8th May. Follow this link for BBC I player to see the programme. It’ll be on i player for another week and is about 20 minutes into the hour long episode: Caroline on BBC Countryfile They ran a story about Japanese knotweed, how…
Just returned from Bristol last week after heading up there with a car full of freshly foraged ingredients for Flinty Red’s Wild Food Tasting Supper. It’s the second one we’ve done and was a roaring success. I did this supper in colloboration with Matt Williamson, chef of Flinty Red and Rachel Higgens, wine expert, who matched each course with an…
Come on a Wild Food Coastal Walk on Good Friday, April 22nd 2011 from the Gurnards Head, with Caroline Davey Followed by a 3 Course Wild Lunch in the pub, cooked by head chef, Bruce Rennie featuring wild seasonal local herbs, salads, vegetables, flowers & fruit Starter Vichyssoise of Alexanders Main Course Hake, three cornered garlic gnocchi, wild garlic (ramsons)…
Pieminister, purveyors of posh pies, came down to stay last week for a couple of days of pie making, pie eating, pie photographing and pie ingredient foraging for their new cookery book on pies. They’ve devised over 100 pie recipes for their book. I got involved with them to forage the ingredients for wild accompaniments for pies and for wild…
Last October I took Nick Baker, the naturalist, of ‘The Really Wild Show’ fame, foraging for a day which will be aired tonight on Inside Out. This is a regional BBC series, so you’ll get to see it if you are in the West Country. I got him to dig up burdock, painstakingly, with a crow bar, and I cooked…
Pasta drying on my clothes drier I had a great day last Wednesday foraging with Ross Bruce, the head chef of the Felin Fach Griffen. We went to my usual haunts and foraged laver, sea beet, fool’s watercress, alexanders, black mustard, three cornered garlic and navelwort. Who says there’s nothing to eat in the winter?? We brought it all back…
On the approach to Christmas my wild food activities ground to a halt and the focus changed to festive merriment. We hunkered down next to the new wood burner, with food and family in excess, celebrating in traditional Christmas fashion. All was well until Boxing Day. Having lost all but one of our ‘fox fodder’ hens (still laying but past…