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Harvesting mushrooms with foodies

Because of what you do you get to hang out a lot with food affecionados: chefs, caterers, providores, producers, distributors, believers and amateurs.
The common threat is the love for produce, its possibilities and the discovery of natural ingredients at our door steps.

It is Mushroom season and you have started running harvesting tours, where you take people [...]

Making a cookbook about foraging? yes please

Here’e the work of a group of people from New York, who with verve and good humor is offering a new way to look at the botany living around us.

Great the statement “So why the focus on foraging? Well, we have to say a bit about spurse. We’re a collective of systems thinkers, and designers [...]

On hoW to pRepAre prIckLY peAr

Nopal, or prickly pear, has many uses, the most common being culinary. Mexican and South American cooking frequently calls for this versatile vegetable, and it is gaining popularity for its practicality and health benefits. Nopal is high in soluble fiber and low in calories at just five per ½ cup.

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Instructions

Things You’ll Need
Gloves (optional)
Paring knife
Vegetable peeler

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the served meal

the served meal, originally uploaded by the weed one.

The steak came from a friend about to go in holiday, either you took it or it would have been wasted.

The greens were foraged on a bike ride along cooks river, they are Warrigal greens (Tetragonia tetragoniodes) and Fat hen (Chenopodium album)

They made for a fantastic festive meal

See [...]

taralli al finocchio selvatico

Taralli con Finocchio selvatico

1 tbsp chopped fennel leaves
500g plain four
55g fresh yeast
125ml olive oil
1 tbsp black pepper
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
salt [...]

on fairy rings, endangered ecosystems and four-leaf clovers

The rain gave reason to mushrooms to flourish this season.
Our urban parks are filled with the most prolific displays, like this one, a fairy ring of Blewits (Lepista Nuda and Lepista saeva).

Cab’s Wild Food Page, a UK based foraging site, says of this mushrooms:

Probably the most popular wild mushroom in many parts of the Midlands in [...]

Dandelion Paellata, a Weed Recipe

Lucas and Lizzy came for dinner, so you made-up a recipe using Dandelion and whatever you had in the cupboard.

It turned up to be a cross between a spanish vegetarian Paella and a frittata, therefore the name, Paellata.

Ingridients:
4 cups of Dandelion leaves, chopped
4 eggs
1 cup of rice
1 onion, chopped
3 cloves of garlic, chopped finely
6 medium [...]

Weed Meal

Day 6,
you and Tom went to the island today, a wide stretch of sand deposited by the river.
You spear-headed this walk primarily to follow a tip-off of a Prickly Pear (Opuntia Spp.) bush.
“you get to the end of the track, where the rocky expanse is. There, on the left, there’s a group of she-oaks. Just under, [...]