Burt Blank
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20 years ago when I first visited Croatia and Serbia with my wife I was fit so I did a lot of foraging. Now my wife will still go out and pick Wild Asparagus.
pick Wild Asparagus.
Mate I became addicted to breadfruit crisps/chips when I had a Guyanese girl friendWe do here in very rural parts of Sri Lanka. Various kinds of yam, herbs, and fruits are found in the wild here. Bordering my garden are 3 trees of Ceylon breadfruit (Artocarpus nobilis) which is a tasty curry when cooked properly, or a filling main if you can find enough of them. The seeds when roasted taste like peanuts but much more tastier. Ceylon breadfruit is a wild tree no one grows but everyone loves to eat, and rarely found.
Mate, I had this poster on my shed wall when we sorted them. When in doubt, throw it out.Only wild fruit usually, there are wild blackberries and a few damson trees in the woods but the crop was poor this year. I don't know enough about wild mushrooms to risk picking those. There is a local chef who's menu is all foraged.
I've also done silver birch as well... very nice once processed a touch. (Reduction was all I did but I do know it can be made into a wine or better yet a liquor).I forage. Chives, dandelion greens, wild blueberries, plantain (the herb)...
I will be tapping sugar maples for syrup come March.
Here where I live, there are many wild asparagus growing every spring, so we pick and cook a lot of them. We also have a big array of mushrooms, for example boletus like this one:View attachment 60714
I would like to know how do you cook wild asparagus. Thanks