Have you ever harvested wild food to cook?

[In_The_Wind]

We picked Muscadines to make jam.

What about you?

[B Calm]

1. Squirrels, rabbits, quail, venison, pheasants, fish,

turtle, mushrooms, and of course frogs.

[In_The_Wind]

9. I've enjoyed eating the fish I've reeled in.

Venison once graced my table. It was provided by friends as I've never shot a deer.
I've eaten frogs legs and (one time only) a rabbit.

[loli phabay]

13. rabbit is awesome, i have mayby a dozen coneys in my freezer at the moment

I also get a lot of venison and squirrels. Squirrel hot wings are amazing. Frogs legs are a staple at the bbqs we go to as are crawdads. If you look hard enough there isnplenty of food in the woods, from mushrooms to roots to fruits and nuts. Luckily i have lots of land to forage and grow on also a couple of river lots and ponds to get fish from. We also trade with others in our area for stuff we dont grow and vice versa. Also its a good thing to be able to cook from.scratch in order to get the best out of what you collect for example curried rabbit is spectacular as is raw bluegills marinated in soy sauce, lime juice and garlic.

[jakeXT]

2. Boletus mushrooms for pasta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_edulis

[Scuba]

3. Squirrel, rabbit, pheasant, grouse, duck, venison, morels, blueberries and watercress.

[hobbit709]

4. Berries, mushrooms, fish, critters.

Raw lizard don't taste half bad when you haven't eaten for two days in desert survival.

[magical thyme]

5. raspberries, blackberries, wild strawberries, dandelions

that's about it.

I'm tempted to try fiddleheads, but need training in knowing the good ones. I suspect they're all good around me. I have eaten fiddleheads a neighbor picked.

[Paper Roses]

6. I'm with you...except for the fiddleheads.

The look of them does not appeal to me.

[loli phabay]

14. are the fiddleheads you talk off baby ferns or something else, i have eaten the ferns type

[magical thyme]

15. yup. baby ferns. Maine delicacy...$5/pound in season at the supermarket!

[loli phabay]

17. five bucks wow, someone is making a killing.

[Denninmi]

19. They were $15 a lb at the local upscale market.

Pricey indeed.

[loli phabay]

7. just about everything there is out there at some time or another

Love wild rabbit.

[handmade34]

8. people used to call me "Euell Gibbons"

and mercilessly make fun of me

just a few…

highbush cranberries
dandelion (greens and fried heads)
Japanese Knotweed
wild blueberries, blackberries, etc
burdock
nettles
for tea: chamomile, mint, raspberry leaves,
chicken mushroom
tiger lily blossom
nasturtium
black walnuts
etc….

[In_The_Wind]

10. I'm impressed!

I guess I'm not much of a gatherer.
Hi-Ho ... it's off to the store I go.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. What? No wild hickory nuts?

Thinking about those commercials of his for Grape Nuts cereal in the 1970s and his claim that it tasted like wild hickory nuts.

EDIT to add the old TV commercial.

[handmade34]

29. can't say

I've had wild hickory nuts… but if they taste anything like grape nuts, no thanks

[MiddleFingerMom]

25. I saw a great funny picture of him once and the caption read...

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... "Even my wife tastes like wild hickory nuts."
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[handmade34]

30. and the teasing continues...

[Aristus]

11. I caught a 15" barracuda off the coast of Cancun once.

Someone else did the cooking though. It was a mean-looking cuss, but it sure was delicious!

[Iggo]

12. Fish, once.

Interesting exercise.

[livetohike]

16. Berries of all kinds, sassafrass root to make tea, day lily buds (taste like a cross of green beans

and asparagus), watercress, wintercress, morels (the only mushroom I safely recognize that is edible),young dandelion leaves, walnuts, beech nuts, hickory nuts....are the ones I have foraged.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. Grape leaves

They grow wild in some of the parks.

[In_The_Wind]

20. Yum! I love eating stuffed grape leaves.

[warrprayer]

22. Raspberries

Lots of em

[Mr.Bill]

23. Blackberries and walnuts.

Every year.

[femmocrat]

24. Blackberries and raspberries.

When I was a kid, my uncles used to go out for mushrooms. They would bring back bushels of them! The "womenfolk" would clean and can them. I loved them then, can't stand them now.

[noamnety]

26. hazelnuts, walnuts

strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, cherries, apples, fish, crabs, and some roadkill.

[Incitatus]

27. Only fish.

Mostly yellowfin tuna and mahi mahi.

[applegrove]

28. I once went for a walk in the deep woods with my cousin and an older

neighbour. We harvested fiddleheads. Which I liked when we cooked them at the time but which I now really dislike. Too earthy.

[Adsos Letter]

31. Trout, mushrooms, Miner's Lettuce, Wild Plums, abalone, blackberries.

Now I'm hungry.

[Broken_Hero]

32. Many kinds of fish

mostly salmon, cod, and trout. Also clams, bluberries, salmonberries, gooseberries, wild onions, black walnuts, rabbit, and deer.

[Locut0s]

33. Just berries which I posted about some time back...

Had to google Muscadines, cool. We have lots of fish, crab and other seafood which I could harvest around here but I'm not a big seafood lover.

[Munificence]

34. Just a few

Wildlife:

Squirrel
Whitetail deer
Wild boar
Grouse
Pheasant
Rabbit
Wild Turkey
Turtle
Frog Legs
Tons of different fish varieties

Plants:

Ginseng
Yellow Root
Sassafras
Sweet Anus
Mayaple
Honey Suckle
Mulberries
Walnuts
Acorns (made bread out of them)
Hickory Nuts
Black berries
Raspberries
Greens
Persimmons
Crab Apples
Spearmint
Sumac

Pretty much anything that grows or lives in the wild has been tried by me at least once.