Foraging and wild foods

[Anonymous No.13012669]

Is anyone else on /ck/ into foraging? I do a lot of it and like experiencing the wide range of flavors that exist outside of what you typically get at the grocery store.

Pic is some pesto I made out of garlic mustard greens and was shickingly tasty.

[Anonymous No.13012786]

>Eating butterflies

Dude the eat bugs thing is a meme LMAO

[Anonymous No.13012789]

>>13012669
Not "foraging", exactly. Not the easiest thing to do in the suburbs but I've collected shamrocks and garlic grass bulbs to make food with before. Nothing wrong with it.

[Anonymous No.13012797]

>>13012669
I live in the suburbs. I forage fruits and veggies from neighbors’ gardens. Just enough to snack on during my walks.

[Anonymous No.13012807]

>>13012789
You might be surprised. There are a number of very common weeds that are quite tasty and nutritious. This is lambs quarters and tastes like a meaty kind of spinach, extremely good.

[Anonymous No.13012833]

>>13012797
Nice, I like when neighbors beans grow over fences. Some wild mushrooms picked last year.

[Anonymous No.13012835]

>>13012669
I do my foraging in the grocery store.

[Anonymous No.13013337]

>>13012835
You're missing out!

[Anonymous No.13013378]

>>13013337
Fuck off tranny hippy. Foraging is for men. Haven't you read Euell Gibbons?

[Anonymous No.13013392]

>>13013378
I'm neither of those things and shove that attitude back up your ass.

[Anonymous No.13013424]

>>13013392
Go sit on a knobbly Jerusalem artichoke

[Anonymous No.13013552]

>>13013424
This need to be a /ck/ banner

[Anonymous No.13013567]

>>13012669
why tf do people eat flower petals? They make an interesting garnish, but what's appetizing about perfume scents?

[Anonymous No.13013669]

Do vegans really?

[Anonymous No.13013984]

>>13012669
Managed to find a decent patch of black raspberries this summer. Worth the thorns.

[Anonymous No.13013991]

>>13013567
>he doesnt enjoy deep fried flowers

technically, broccoli and cauliflower is mostly flowers too

[Anonymous No.13014093]

I picked a whole bunch of blackberries this year, I made apple and blackberry jam. There have’t been many mushrooms about this year though.

[Anonymous No.13014159]

Yes, it makes going out significantly more interesting. Here are some things I foraged this year:
>Nettles
>Garlic mustard
>Burdock stalk/wild cardoon
>Chicken of the woods
>Purslane
>Lambs quarter
>Wood sorrel
>Juneberries
Made some dandelion wine and found a big old chaga in the white mountains as well.
Probably some others I can't remember right now but I really hit all the basics.

[Anonymous No.13014170]

>>13012669
Wild greens taste pretty shit in my opinion. I have tried a variety of edible wild growing plants/weeds. They were all unsatisfactory.
Wild meats on the other hand are very good.

[Anonymous No.13014183]

I went to forage mussels at the coast last month. It was fun and the mussels were all as fresh as you can get and tasty.

[Anonymous No.13014207]

>>13012669
Foraging, hunting, and fishing makes up a large portion of my diet. It took a few tries but I managed to make acorn flour awhile back. Made muffins out of it and ate them with a wild mushroom squirrel stew

[Anonymous No.13014215]

>>13012669
the only "foraging" these retards here do is foraging on to the nearest mcdonalds

[Anonymous No.13014220]

>>13012669
Animals eat plants, people eat meat. As a person, and not a mentally ill leftist, I eat meat because it tastes good and we were designed to be carnivores. If you want to save the planet you should just kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.13014238]

>>13013567
Not all flowers taste the same or perfumey. Flowers with a strong scent usually taste fairly bitter and like perfume but that's the specific plant's make up. The baseline flavor of flower petal is quite delicate and sweet. Day lilies for example have no perfume flavor and both the pods and open flowers taste like sweet buttery lettuce.

The ones here >>13013337 Dandelion is pungent and a little sweet and the purple flowers are from dame's rocket which are a bit peppery. Pic related is wild mustard and one of my favorites, it's initally sweet but then comes a wonderful burst of mustard flavor.

>>13013669
I'm sure a bunch do but I'm not vegan.

>>13014159
Very nice! I'm not a fan of burdock but very much like everything else you mentioned, especially wood sorrel and purslane. I found some chicken of the woods last week and it was amazing.

>>13014170
Do you remember which you've tried? They vary wildly. I am down with the wild meats though, my wife's father and brother both hunt but don't serm to like the flavor as much so me and my dog often get wild turkey or venison. Pretty good deal if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.13014247]

>>13014207
i found the secret to good acorn flour was to chop them into smallish chunks and then rinse and soak several times before letting them dry out and finishing grinding. Bigger chunks let me be more aggressive with the rinsing. Also white oak is generally much better.

>>13014220
Humans are omnivores and both plants and animals are delicious and have useful nutrients. Your implication comes from a place of ignorant weakness.

[Anonymous No.13014248]

>>13014238
>pic related
>forgot pic...

[Anonymous No.13014258]

>>13014238
You don't like artichoke hearts? I'm talking about cutting the 2nd year flower stalks and skinning them. They taste almost identical to artichoke heart.

[Anonymous No.13014260]

>>13013984
I love black raspberries so much. I let them take over a part of my yard so I can get lots.

[Anonymous No.13014264]

>>13014247
https://theconversation.com/ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-theres-more-animal-blood-on-your-hands-4659

[Anonymous No.13014268]

>>13014258
Nice I'll have to try that. I've had the leaves and roots but not tried the stalk yet.

[Anonymous No.13014273]

>>13014264
I don't see any point in reading that link since I'm not vegan and don't care about them. This thread is for the wonderful unusual flavours you can find in nature, not getting triggered over other people's diets. Go have your meltdown somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.13014304]

>>13014247
My problem was I was using the boiling water method of leaching to get the bitterness out of the acorns. It destroyed the starch in the flour. I switched to cold leaching and haven't had any problems since. White Oak is the only trees ive used but living in Georgia means I have access to all kinds of different acorns. I've been wondering how different the acorns from a live oak taste

[Anonymous No.13014335]

>>13014304
Ahh yes you want to use cold water and I soak them for a long time, sometimes all day. I find the base flavour is fairly similar across species but some have far more tannin and can be bitter even after a lot of washing. English and pin oak are both pretty good, red and black oak aren't worth the effort in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.13014363]

Are mustard greens just the leaves from the mustard plant? I did a little foraging last year and loved it. I mostly found ramps which I then found out is one plant I probably should not forage.

[Anonymous No.13014508]

>>13014363
Broadly yes but there are different cultivars, some produce much bigger leavs than others. I feel you on the ramps. We don't have ramps in my area but there are patches of trout lily that I've harvested a few out of from time to time and they're so delicious. Tons of wild chive though which is nice.

[Anonymous No.13014618]

>>13014220
>>13014264
Holy fuck Toothless you are way beyond pathetic. Embarrassing

[Anonymous No.13015119]

>>13014268
They're the best part of the plant by far. I guess the roots are pretty good but they're a massive pain in the ass to dig up . https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/foraging-wild-burdock-stalks-zbcz1405

[Anonymous No.13015187]

I forage some. Wild lettuce, berries, wild carrots etc. But mostle I garden. Frost tonight seasons almost over.

[Anonymous No.13015312]

>>13012669

[Anonymous No.13015438]

>>13014207
that sounds tasty i would love to try that but the only squirrels around me are city squirrels and i dont want to eat any city chemicals

[Anonymous No.13015490]

>>13014220
>>13014247
plants are actually good for you and have medicinal properties
if you think theres anything wrong with bending down and chomping a flower or picking berries you are very boring

[Anonymous No.13016078]

>>13014170
I don't know many wild greens, but pilewort makes salads to die for.

[Anonymous No.13016139]

>>13014220
>Carnivore? That’s silly anon, you’re an omnivore.

[Anonymous No.13016151]

Not much foraging where I live now. Used to pick absolute fuckloads of blackberries and elderberries at my old place.
I did find a really good spot for allium ursinum this Summer, though. I'll be going back for more next year.

I could pick stinging nettles too I suppose. Never really tried those.

[Anonymous No.13016349]

Loads of people pick blackberries from bushes around the roads where I am.

Not entirely sure why they want to eat berries that'll have a fine coating of soot and diesel on them...

[Anonymous No.13016356]

>>13016349
If they’re by roads they’ve been sprayed too because blackberry bushes are a noxious weed that will grow out like fuck

[Anonymous No.13016359]

>>13012797
My neighbors when I was kid had a few apple trees. She used to throw them over at me when I would cut her grass. Sour but pretty good. Berries grew on my old bushes but they were shit.

[Anonymous No.13016367]

>>13016349
Everything else has the same coating anyway, you pussy. You think the shit you eat and breathe is any cleaner?

[Anonymous No.13016371]

>>13016367
Eating black berries by the side of the road is certifiably stupid, if you have them there they are everywhere anyway, go to a park

[Anonymous No.13016460]

It really depends how busy the road is that they're growing on and whether whatever municipality you're in has sprayed there. It's not generally a great idea though.

Reminds me of sadness there is a quite large pin cherry tree near me which is one of the only ones within walking distance and produces large amounts of fruit, bit it's right beside the train tracks and in addition to the creosote from the ties, some of the workers have told me they use agent orange along the track itself. I've eaten a few and they tasted good but I don't feel safe going for more than a nibble.

Anyways, some chicken of the woods I found last week. It will soon be elm oyster season here and I'm stoked as fuck.

[Anonymous No.13016470]

>>13016460
Are you on the east coast? I’m on the west coast and can’t find chicken of the woods ever. Found s huge king bolete this summer though.

[Anonymous No.13016519]

>>13016151
They're great in the pan with some onions, and a side of horseradish, but need to be poached in boiling water so they don't sting.

[Anonymous No.13016533]

>>13016470
I'm in Canada on lake Ontario, it grows in a few places here but gets buggy fast so I've only come across it in an edible state a handful of times. But so worth looking for.

[Anonymous No.13016584]

>>13015312
Aren't fiddleheads carcinogenic?

[Anonymous No.13016594]

>>13016584
When raw. Cooked they're alright in moderation. Like rhubarb you wouldn't want to make it a daily staple, but they're only out for such a short time It's not really a problem.

[Anonymous No.13016608]

>>13016594
>you wouldn't want to make it a daily staple,
This concerns me in general about foraging. I was looking up the nutrition facts of a lot of foraged foods and they’re often crazy high in vitamins, namely vitamin A which is like the easiest to overdose on.

[Anonymous No.13016695]

>>13016608
as with most things, the person that has more knowledge is better off

[Anonymous No.13017369]

>>13012669
Hey OP, what are some good books to get into foraging? So far I only know of Clovers, cattails, and dandelions.

[Anonymous No.13017477]

Curly dock and purslane are probably my favorites. Got some mulberries in the freezer.

[Anonymous No.13017857]

>>13012833
arent these destroying angels or something

no way in hell i would forage mushrooms. wrong one choice and u need a liver transplant or thats it.