It tastes great - 'cos it's all I've got

RoyalM said:
Always got time for Ray and his no nonsense, get on with it attitude. I remember that episode, I watched it next to my gf and she was groaning and making all the usual remarks about how she would never eat this or that and how it probably tastes like vomit or mud.
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The TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is another advocate of wild food. He has demonstrated quite a few recipes using or including wild ingredients.

‘The sense of creativity, anticipation and reward in growing your own vegetables and raising your own animals for meat has to be experienced to be fully understood. But there is another whole dimension of pleasure, comparable yet different, to be had for the adventurous cook who learns to harvest truly wild food. If growing your own affords the deep and lasting satisfaction of hard work rewarded, gleaning the hedgerow provides a thrill that’s more primordial – you’re not just out of the supermarket, you’re back to being a hunter–gatherer. It’s something that can make you feel very alive.’

I make a point of watching his programmes. It can be quite amusing as he reconverts vegetarians back to meat eaters and shows city girls how to catch, prepare and cook their own fish :)
 
Yeah +1 on Hugh, he certainly has wrung the most out of life in the country. He did a show called 'Cook on the Wild Side' or somthing like that, he toured the UK and ate various local food from heather beer to crayfish in canals. I seem to remember he cooked a squirrel on some sort of bike/charcoal brazier contraption he had. It's always interesting to see what a chef does with 'natural or bush' food.

I'd like to see what Ray eats when he's off camera because he's a big man and I don't think bush food could keep that frame of his covered.
 
lol, yeah my wife always comments that he must eat well when not in front of the camera - but then, so do I! I like to cook and I like to eat; my wife likes to grow stuff so it all works out well.

Is Hugh the guy that made a woodlouse pie? I think I saw an episode at random with some guy on a canal boat who did that. Crunchy!
 
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