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…
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…
Whirlwind half term to Bristol…. loved it….great to leave the land of pasties and top up on a bit of diverse food and culture…wonderful dosas at the Thali cafe (twice), plates of gorgeousness at Flinty Red (Of course), tapas at the Clifton Lido, glass of Rioja and a plate of paella at El Rincon accompanied by live fiddle, trumpet and…
Wow. I've finally come to the end of the most manic work phase so far in the history of Fat Hen. It's been a fantastic Autumn with loads of interesting things happening. Food Fairs, Gourmet Weekends, Taster Days, Days for children, Production of endless jellies, fungi and seaweeds and a bit of t.v. Countryfile came down West to film a…
OMG – How scarey – I did my first public cooking demonstration at the Cornwall Food and Drink Festival in Truro on 25th September. I looked down at all the cooking kit I brought with me and wondered how on earth I was going to find the right things at the right time and god only knew if I'd get…
Off we went this morning, baskets in hand, children in tow, down to the woods on a mushroom hunt. A perfect Sunday morning jaunt with the kids and their two friends Jacca and Rosie. Rope swings, fungi in abundance, a flask of hot chocolate and a good old hearty walk on a misty moisty morning. We immediately had a great…
Once again the gods were looking after us last weekend. The weather forecast for last weekend was torrential, so when we had clear skies and baking hot sunshine we were pretty chuffed to say the least. Last week I foraged chanterelles, parasols, jelly ear fungus, black mustard leaves, alexanders leaves, sorrel, wood sorrel, navelwort, limpets, laver seaweed, fool's watercress, watercress,…
‘Tis now the season for the parasol on the West Cornish coastline… perched just above the rough unimproved coastal grassland, they are there for the picking… ‘Twas luck for me they were sitting pretty the day before Valentine Warner came to forage and cook with me for a new tv series on UKTV’s Good Food Channel, Coast to Coast (’twill…
7.15am on Monday 31st August I left home to set off on the longest cycle of my lifetime. Being a bit of an anorack when it comes to wild food, I couldn't imagine cycling to Bristol without somehow recording or collecting all the wild food I saw on the way. Since I was travelling alone with 2 panier bags…