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SMOKEY, CHARRED, FERMENTED OYSTER MUSHROOM, WILD GARLIC, 3-CORNERED LEEK & MISO BURGERS

13 February 2024
A fermented mushroom burger, with wild sauerkraut, blackened beetroot, miso and all the deep flavours…

Winter chanterelle flatbreads with parasol mushroom butter

8 February 2024
End of January and I'm finding Winter Chanterelles. Thats a 5 month season...

🌲 DOUGLAS FIR 🌲

3 February 2024
One of my favourite ingredients the Douglas fir. Also those little mice are so cute

SCARLET / RUBY ELFCUP

26 January 2024
This is the prettiest find of the year so far. The spore shooting elf cup…

SAFE IDENTIFICATION – Cow parsley versus Poison Hemlock

13 January 2024
Identification is key. Find the fun in identification first before consuming anything!

(MISO-MARINATED) LIONS MANE

5 January 2024
Cultivated Lions Mane is a meaty mushroom that can be cooked like a steak. Marinated…

BIO-PROSPECTING – CLONING LOCAL OYSTER MUSHROOMS

30 November 2023
Having met a mushroom farmer (Robbie - https://www.basilsfungifarm.com) we decided to clone a local oyster…

GIFTS CREATED FROM CHRISTMAS CONIFERS

28 November 2023
How to eat your Christmas tree is a great book... I present how to drink…

TRUFFLE TOPPING TREAT ON MUSHROOM MEDLEY

24 November 2023
I got every bit of funghi involved on some velvety hummus. Nothing better!

Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda)

21 November 2023
This is a striking colour, fragrant, late autumn/winter, delicious mushroom that must be cooked and…

Magpie Inkcap (Coprinopsis picacea)

15 November 2023
The Magpie Inkcap is a stunning mushroom and generally quite solitary. I found a load…

Young Fly Agaric vs Common Puffball

13 November 2023
🍄FLY AGARIC (Amanita muscaria)🍄 - avoid mistaking for a puffball and spore development video❗️

Sweet Chestnut & Boozy Berry Compote

10 November 2023
Sweet Chestnut Nut Butter is a nostalgic delight. With a glug of rum, pinch of…

Roasted Sweet Chestnut & Celeriac Soup

9 November 2023
Sweet chestnuts are delicious and I have a few processes when roasting them. Here is…

Shaggy Inkcap (Coprinus comatus)

25 October 2023
The Shaggy Ink Cap reminds me of ghosts from pac man. Here is a little…

Orange Oak Bolete

18 October 2023
The Orange Oak Bolete is a wonderful quality mushroom but very hard to distinguish from…

Beefsteak, Ecology, Responsibility

10 October 2023
Finding beefsteak is always fun. Often people overlook the number of relationships happening all around…

CEP TAKEOVER

8 October 2023
CEPs of all varieties are popping all over. Not all the best... much dehydrated.

Brown Birch Bolete (Leccinum scabrum)

3 October 2023
A common mushroom often overlooked. Young and firm is great in the pan and older…

PARASOL SCHNITZEL with potato & oak leaf gherkin salad

2 October 2023
Probably my favourite process for cooking the Parasol. But be aware of the risks of…

🌱 FERMENTED WILD GARLIC FLATBREAD🌱

1 October 2023
The full process for making the punchy fermented wild garlic flatbreads. Always available on my…

Parasitic Bolete (Pseudoboletus parasiticus)

30 September 2023
A rare find here on the common earth ball. Uncertainty in the community about whether…

👌🏻Fermented Blackberry & Fire Cider Vinegar Fruit Leather👌🏻

29 September 2023
Fruit leather is an age old method of preserving fruit. Here is my method trying…

Witches Egg -> Stinkhorn mushroom (Phallus Impedicus)

8 September 2023
Curiosities in the woods like the witches egg are always fun and gross at the…

Girolle & Brown Birch Bolete Bhaji

6 September 2023
Girolle & Brown Birch Bolete Bhaji with Damson & Fermented Blackberry Chutney. Need I say…

Damson & Fermented Blackberry Chutney

5 September 2023
When you find damsons you think gin, vodka or chutney. Thats me anyway and as…

Girolles / Chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius)

5 September 2023
Having a bumper year with mushrooms here we found yet more girolle. Gonna make a…

Porcini Poutine

2 September 2023
Found a massively overgrown Porcini. Made some breakfast and a deep "gravy

🌱Water Pepper aka arse smart🌱 (Persicaria hydropiper)

28 August 2023
Water pepper is the cousin of Vietnamese coriander and has a potent peppery mouth tingling…

Meadowsweet AKA Queen of the Meadow, Meadsweet or Mead Wort (Filipendula ulmaria)

21 August 2023
Meadowsweet is a wonderful ingredient. I love the flowers for the vanilla and almond flavours…

Common Mallow (Malva sylvestris)

13 August 2023
In my opinion the most versatile underutilised plant thats everywhere... common mallow.

🐛🌼Cinnabar Caterpillar🌼🐛

2 August 2023
Whenever I see these caterpillars I just love their story of building a toxic armour…

🙏🚶👌🏻RUSSULA SPOTTING👌🏻🚶🙏 THE BRITTLEGILLS

28 July 2023
I love these mushrooms that are often overlooked in the UK whereas whilst travelling throughout…

🍹FULL YEAR NEGRONI🍹

17 July 2023
My year long drink development is full of wild fruit & bitters. The left over…

BURDOCK (Arctium minus / Arctium lappa)

1 July 2023
Most people think of the fermented root drink Dandelion & Burdock when mentioning this very…

Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

30 June 2023
Common Yarrow has a huge amount of uses and history. I love to talk about…

Common Hogweed (best bits) & Giant Hogweed + Hybridisation

28 June 2023
I love using common hogweed, especially the unfurled flowers. Giant Hogweed is a risk and…

👌🏻📅FLAVOUR FRED SUMMER ON TOAST📅👌🏻

21 June 2023
Peak of summer - a collection of ingredients gathered and put on toast in the…

🌹💐 DOG ROSE PETAL CHEONG 💐🌹

16 June 2023
Dog Rose petals are abundant and the flower once pollinated they just fall off. Here…

🫙🍋ELDERFLOWER & PRESERVED LEMON PICKLED RADISHES & ELDERFLOWER SHRUB🍋🫙

11 June 2023
Elderflower and preserved lemon shrub. Great for drink and pickles

🍍🌱PINEAPPLE WEED & ELDERFLOWER TEPACHE (+ friends) 🌱🍍

7 June 2023
Using wild flavours to re-create a drink that dates back to the Mayans (Tepache). Pineapple…

🌱SWEET WOODRUFF 🌱 (Galium odoratum)

31 May 2023
My favourite flavour and the many ways I love to use it (with slight caution)

PHEASANT BACK / DRYADS SADDLE – on the grill

26 May 2023
This spring/summer funghi is a lovely large find. Here is a cooking technique that I…

Elderflower and why I love elder

17 May 2023
THE SEASON - late spring into summer It is a beautiful day, walking through meadows…

♻️FULL ON FERMENTED SPRING MUSHROOM SEASONING♻️

15 May 2023
An absolute flavourbomb using black morels and St. George's mushroom - arguably the best dry…

Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

10 May 2023
The common dandelion is often thought of as a weed. I like to talk about…

🙏 MOREL & MAIPILZ KIEV 🙏 WITH WILD GARLIC PESTO Part 3 of 3

8 May 2023
Morel & Maipilz kiev with wild garlic pesto. The most seasonal treat and I can…

🍽️🌱MAIPILZ / ST. GEORGE’S MUSHROOM 🫠👨‍🍳 MOREL & MAIPILZ KIEV: Part 2 of 3

8 May 2023
The St. George's mushroom aka "Maipilz" is another spring funghi. Susy stole my finds and…

💫💥THE BLACK MOREL💥💫 MOREL & MAIPILZ KIEV: Part 1 of 3

8 May 2023
Found a black morel and it blew my mind. I decided to make a 3…

☠️LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY☠️

7 May 2023
Lily-of-the-valley is in an episode of Breaking Bad. It also looks slightly like wild garlic…

BLUEBELLS

3 May 2023
Synonymous with British ancient woodlands the Bluebell is so beautiful. Fairies love it to having…

🥂🌺Flowering Currant & Rhubarb Shrub🥂🌺

24 April 2023
The flowering currant has always reminded me of cat wee. Amazingly I just haven't ben…

🪵Oak Mazegill🪵

19 April 2023
Not an edible mushroom but a wonderful bracket. The Oak Mazegill is such a beautiful…

🌱🧄WILD GARLIC MAYONNAISE 3 WAYS🧄🌱

11 April 2023
Using the wild garlic oil here is 2 ways to make wild garlic mayo and…

🌱🍋🌶️ WILD LEAF CHERMOULA RECIPE🌶️🍋🌱

7 April 2023
Using the wild garlic oil, preserved lemon, pickled cucumbers, fermented chillies and the freshest greens…

🌱WILD GARLIC OIL🧄

5 April 2023
First in a series of wild garlic posts to bolster the 6 processes from 2022.…

🌱🤏🏼SAFE NETTLE TOP PICKING🤏🏼🌱

30 March 2023
Picking nettles safely is of the utmost importance. So here is how to do so.

🥢🍣PICKLED MAGNOLIA PETALS 🥢🍣

14 March 2023
I love magnolia not only for the fact that it has been dated back to…

🥢WILD TURNIP CAKE – FLAVOUR FRED STYLE🥢

3 March 2023
I love turnip cake from the chinese. With a shortage of fruit and veg and…

☠️🪦 POISONOUS YEW TREE ☠️🪦 (Taxus baccata)

2 March 2023
This ancient, morbid yew tree has history in a multitude of cultures, religions and myths.…

🌈🍧 WILD LAYERED DESSERT 🌈🍧

28 February 2023
A layered dessert really should be a trifle. This could have been but sadly it…

NEW NETTLES & NETTLE CHALLAH

23 February 2023
I love baking and I love foraging so this is where I get using my…

VELVET SHANK vs ENOKITAKE

19 February 2023
Velvet shank is a common wild mushroom in the Flammulina sp that has always been…

LORDS & LADIES aka CUCKOOPINT / ADAM & EVE (Arum maculatum)

12 February 2023
Lords and Ladies, Cuckoopint (Arum maculatum) has a bunch on uses and also dangers. It…

JAPANESE QUINCE ♻️ ZERO WASTE ♻️ ORNAMENTAL FLAVOURS

3 February 2023
Japanese quince is my favourite fruit to forage in urban environments. Its often a hedging…

Vacuum Distillation – Spring Leaf Liqueur “LIQUOR SILVARUM”

26 January 2023
I make wild booze and one of the ways I preserve the flavour is using…

🍄👕 MUSHROOM JUMPER 👕🍄 with @queer.as.funghi

20 January 2023
We went on the hunt for the infamous mushroom jumper in Epping forest. Just a…

🍫🍄🌶BIRCH POLYPORE CHAI CHOCOLATE FONDANT 🍫🍄🌶

15 January 2023
The Birch polypore is an incredible medicinal funghi and Susy makes into a chai. Always…

NEW (Y)EAR JELLY JAFFAS

3 January 2023
Jelly ear mushrooms are not really a texture that fits with western cuisine. So after…

OYSTER MUSHROOM JERKY RECIPE

31 December 2022
It was not long after storm Eunice and we needed some 2 week seasoned disease-free…

♻️ KVASS USING BREAD CRUST, SOURDOUGH DISCARD, BEETROOT ♻️

26 December 2022
It was not long after storm Eunice and we needed some 2 week seasoned disease-free…

🍔 FILTHY FORAGED MUSHROOM BURGER 🍔

29 November 2022
For me this is a great example of how to use up loads of your…

🌲 NOBLE FIR MOLASSES 🌲

23 November 2022
I fermented the cones of a Christmas tree to make a fantastic "molasses" to use…

CONFIT GARLIC RECIPE 🧄🧄

23 November 2022
Quite simply how to make confit garlic and its a must have for me so…

MEDLAR STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING aka “TUDOR-ARSE FRUIT”

15 November 2022
The medlar has many interesting names based on its appearance and also to needs to…

ALBINO WEREWOLF MUSHROOM

31 October 2022
The Helvella crispa or the white elphins saddle has a compound in it used to…

Nettle Gnocchi

30 October 2022
Love nettles and here is my process to make vegan nettle gnochhi. Fantastic flavour and…

Cézanne Exhibition at Tate Modern – “With an apple, I will astonish Paris”

30 October 2022
Working with Square Root Soda's I was lucky enough to make a drink with them…

Porcini, CEP, Steinpilz, Penny Bun (Boletus Edulis)

27 October 2022
Porcini, CEP, Penny Bun, Steinpilz - epic flavours from this wonderful choice edible mushroom

Pine Bolete, Gozney Dome, Ezme @nomadicdinners

21 October 2022
The pine bolete is not that common where I am based so when I found…

🍄🍄 FLY AGARIC (Amanita Muscaria) 🍄🍄

19 October 2022
The worlds most photographed funghi? All the bits I love about it

PONTACK SAUCE – elderberry sauce dating back to 17th century

17 September 2022
Time to ferment elderberries and make a tangy sauce historically served with game. Don' think…

The Wildest Bloody Mary

2 September 2022
Arguably the best and wildest Bloody Mary out there (in my opinion)

Courgette Baba Ganoush

11 August 2022
There is a point in the year where courgettes are abundant so why not get…

Crunchiest pickled cucumbers

8 August 2022
Who doesn't love pickles? Using oak leaves and blackberry leaves it helps add extra crunchiness…

Red Wine Pickled Blackberries

2 July 2022
With most wild ingredients there generally is a glut so best to have as many…

Making Medieval Ink – Oak Galls

11 May 2022
How to make medieval ink using oak galls and a bit of rust... or iron…

Shiitake Inoculation

13 April 2022
It was not long after storm Eunice and we needed some 2 week seasoned disease-free…

Common Mallow 3 Ways

28 March 2022
The mallow family have an interesting texture and ability to thicken as it is mucilaginous,…

Wild Garlic 3 Ways Part 1

3 March 2022
Wild Garlic is very popular and in this 3 part series I'll be posting methods…

Winter Mushroom Farewell Dinner

2 February 2022
To celebrate the end of winter mushrooms and test out my Private Dinner offer we…

Breaded Winter Chanterelle mushrooms: with tips on foraging, preserving & flavour

19 January 2022
Foraging for mushrooms is fantastic and opens your mind to the nature that is all…