wild man, wild food
Fergus Drennan (Wild Man, Wild Food) is a professional forager whose diet consists of about 50% wild food. His website features such delicacies as a recipe for pan fried squirrels. Mmm.
Fergus and some sloes
Intrigued by Fergus's unique view on where to find fine ingredients, our recipe inventors headed off to the Kent coast to meet him and learn more about the unusual foods that are growing on our doorstep.
hunting for seaweed
It was a long day which consisted of foraging for, among other things, seaweed, samphire, sloes, rosehips and seabuckthorn berries.
seabuckthorn berries
Lucy, samphire and seaweed
The day ended with a squirrel-free bonfire on the beach, cooking up all the food that had been foraged. And we returned to Fruit Towers full of slightly odd ideas about what to put in our next smoothie. We'll let you know if we manage to crack a seaweed recipe.
Seaweed is supposed to be really good for you, so if you did manage to get it into a nice-tasting drink, that would be ace!
Posted by: Caroline | September 25, 2007 at 12:20 PM
the squirrel recipe has made me sad. my colleague Tall Sam calls me squirrel, so the ingredients have made my blood run cold.
nice photos though!
Posted by: Chloe | September 26, 2007 at 01:41 PM
MMmmmm squirrel!
Posted by: Stephan | September 26, 2007 at 02:51 PM
Sea buckthorn is supposed to be very rich in vitamin C, so if you could find a way of using that it would be great (and good for food miles too!)
Posted by: Seakay | September 26, 2007 at 04:35 PM
yum yum i could just drink a seaweed smootie!
Posted by: emz | October 21, 2007 at 08:18 PM
Squirrel is very tasty, although it's better to slow cook itas it can be a bit tough. Don't know why more people don't eat it.
Posted by: Layla | October 23, 2007 at 10:44 AM
Hi There
I got a good squirrel recipe here, great in autumn when the nuts are ready:
http://picklemyfancy.blogspot.com/2007/10/squirrel-nut-stew.html
It is sort of sad but its no different from eating lamb or cow or chicken, except that it is unfamiliar and we think of squirrels as 'free' so its sad to kill them, whereas a cow, well its only purpose is to be eaten, right? so thats ok.
Posted by: Sarah Dixon | August 05, 2008 at 02:12 PM
^^ more people dont use it because its not readily available, unlike other meats which are sold commercialy.
A sea buckthorn smoothie would be great because that stuff is unbeleivabley healthy.
Posted by: A man | October 11, 2008 at 10:15 AM