Wild Food

[mistergixer]

Any 'wild food' fans on here - i class wild food as anything you've caught/harvested yourself (excluding home-grown veg, herbs, eggs etc), and not bought from a shop.

I've currently got around two dozen signal crayfish sitting in buckets of clean, slightly salted water in my garage to purge.
A *ahem* friend of mine trapped them in the local canal using crayfish pots baited with catmeat.

Here's an idea of how they look now:

https://www.wyeuskfoundation.org/images/signal_crayfish.jpg

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2u_mR5UJLLw/S_bAmryUiHI/AAAAAAAAG8w/lDp_Jcgbsd8/s400/SignalCrayfish.JPG

Nasty looking little buggers, highly aggressive too!
In a few days they'll be boiled up and looking like this:

https://www.boisdale.co.uk/members/images/American%20signal.jpg

https://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m230/Gareth_Lewis/Crayfish%20Supper/SignalCrayfishsupper010.jpg

I shall be feasting upon them, along with some new potatoes, crusty bread & butter, lemon juice and lots of garlic mayo.

Yum yum!!

So, any other primitive hunter-gatherers on here?
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

It's shroom time. So i have been blinging my pizza with field mushrooms.
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[warped one]

I found a few of those like buggers in the back of the work L200. I crawled under the lid opened up a Hilti Hitbox stuck my hand in for a tape, then got nipped by the little shit.

How do you catch them?
We have a really good place a short trip down the road I I love the taste of them.
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[WishayKillie]

I once ventured into Barlornock at the Red Road flats (Google it) to get a fish supper. That was a fairly wild experience .


I once ate a trout I caught when I was 12. Only other thing was the guys at work in Vietnam used to fish for squid during the night then it would always be on the menu at dinner time, and lunch time and breakfast
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[mistergixer]

[smegballs]

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Liberty caps were also out, but i prefer to eat my pizzas, not stare at them for hours giggling.
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[Raffles]

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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

@smegballs. Gawsworth in Cheshire.
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[Chris750]

To catch crashfish we used to get a peice of mesh (an old oven tray, barbeque cooking tray anything like that).
Tie string to from each corner on to something like a small peice of wood so it hangs horizontally then a longer peice of string so it can be lowered down.
Tie a couple of sausages to it and then lower onto the river bed, wait 5-10mins and pull it up. If they are in there you will catch them. I have also even seen a bloke doing it with an old bike wheel but never tried it myself.

[hmmmnz]

im not a fan of the rubbery little beggers,
but i do like rabbit, venison, possom's pretty good if cooked right,
i like quail, but they are such a pain in the arse to eat, wood pigeon is pretty tasty at certain times of the year... mmmm berry meaty goodness and i do like a bit of wild pork and puha

if you ever come to nz make sure you check out the wild food festival its a good weekend
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[mistergixer]

I'm partial to shooting rabbit (although as mrsgixer has pet rabbits, i'm banned from doing any home butchery/cooking of rabbit in the house).
I'll also eat most sea fish that i catch on the rare occasions i get to go sea fishing, as there's not much sea around Buckinghamshire - never eaten any freshwater fish other than eels, wasn't too keen on it though.
Whilst out spinning for Pike yesterday (whilst my friend did the crayfish trapping), I somehow managed to hook the most enormous freshwater mussel! Fuck knows how, the probable chances must be enormous!
Anyways, i just chucked it back in again, as i have no idea whether it was edible, and if it was edible whether it would have tasted of anything other than silty mud. I was still surprised at having landed shellfish on a fishing rod.

@Chris750 - there were a couple of teenage girls on the same stretch of canal the other day having good success with 'drop-netting' - personally, due to the ridiculous illegality of it, i prefer trapping.

I'm now thinking i've got too many to eat in one go, i think i might save a dozen and go Cajun and make a big pot of Jambalaya with some spicy sausage, lardons and chicken. As i'm the only one in the house who'll eat any 'seafood', i can make it as spicy as i like!

Double Yum!
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[Chris750]

Is it illegal? Didn't know that. Why?

[Charlie]

I'll eat blackberries, raspberries, strawberries. We have used sloes, damsons for gin and the damsons for jam. Dad goes trout fishing so get one or two occasionally. Also do game shooting so; pheasant, duck, wood-pigeon, rabbit, grouse, snipe, woodcock and teal. Dad prepares all the birds and has done the gin, the jam is done by my girlfriends Mum.

I can't complain! I love my food, especially good food
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[mistergixer]

[Tonka]

[Ariel Badger]

[FURBAR]

Food from canals ....
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

How long does it take for heavy metals to be purged?
Don't know anyone who has eaten swan mussels, especially not from a canal Sure they'd be fine if sourced from a clean pond.

As for the shrooming. There is a disused raliway line near me and that's where i've gathered Chanterelle, Cep and (hopping over the fence) some puffballs.

The little book 'Food for Free' i lost many years ago, but it opened my eyes.

Pat
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