Outdoorsy shite. Foraging for food.

[FryingNemo]

I am sad today as I have finished the last of frozen blackberries I foraged last year. However, I am excitedly looking forward to this year's foraging.

What are you foraging for and how do you eat it? I'm thinking of nettles but have never cooked them before. Any suggestions?

blackberry vodka - take about half a litre of vodka, transfer to a cleaned, empty 750 ml or 1l bottle, add oooh about 200g caster sugar and stuff in some blackberries up to the neck of the bottle. frozen or fresh seems to make no diff.

shake, store somewhere cool, garage/shed, shake when you remember, strain out after a few months (6 min if you like smooth, less time if you don't mind harsher)

boozy fruit v good for trifle/with ice cream

yum

Wild garlic is delicious. I'm after crayfish at the moment. It's tricky, I have to identify my trapping spots, get landowner permission, then apply to the river authority for a license and if I get it, I need some otter proof, traps which meet river authority standards! (I'm not even sure we have otters round here!) it's all very complicated, but will be worth it if I ever catch any!

Lim, recipe for you.

Firstly, you need a clean screw top glass bottle, such as a cheap wine bottle.

Fill this to the brim with raw or frozen blackberries. Then pour caster suger in to the brim. Then pour in vodka, cheap is fine, right to the top, and screw the lid on. Put it in the cupboard and shake it every day for three weeks.

By then, it should be the colour of Ribera. Strain it through a sieve, into a clean glass screw top bottle, and put it into a cool dark place. Keep until wanted, I don't know how long that is because mine never makes it past a month. It gets drunk.

Anyone know where I can find wild garlic in bedfordshire? preferably within reach of Sandy please?