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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: deepinthewoods on October 21, 2012, 09:04:20 pm
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we went for a gloaming walk in the woods this evening, spotted a few mushrooms and gathered a few chestnuts for some supper munchies. today i pulled the last runner beans ready for salting for the winter.
it put me in mind of how nature always provides if your not fussy. or scared of a few prickles. 3 years ago i gathered over 30kg of chestnuts, such was the bounty, i sold or swapped them for other foods and pickled a load. thats what i plan for this years harvest, pickle them down for thickening stews and that nutty flavour that adds a certain satisfaction to a winters stew, or sets off a bowl of buttered sprouts at christmas.
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Looks fab!
Well done :thumbsup:
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Yum.. Sausage and chestnut stuffing for Xmas
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Looks and sounds very :yum: :yum: :yum:
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A good harvest :thumbsup:
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Darn it and all I've got is two bottles of gin and some sloes :'(
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:D swap? actually too late, ive already gone and eaten them lovely sweet chestnuts. i do like a good sloe gin tho. ;D
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So instead of taking photos of your lime plaster work you've been mumping off through the woods , no wonder we've ground to a stop :innocent:
Those beans are a bit curley , get the iron out....
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They look brilliant :) Never tried chestnuts but they do look very nice.
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Better dried than pickled though and keep for years :wave:
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Oh,how I love Chestnuts :yum: :yum: :yum: ;D
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I had chestnuts once , only problem they were conkers ! I was puking for days , lol . Never been brave enough since . It was one of my early attempts at survival , nearly killed me , i was only 9 at the time .
And yes i was a pratt even then . Had a few iffy mushies too , it is a wonder i am still here , albeit only just .
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Rusty, you are a survivor! ;)
We don't have "proper" chestnuts up here, I think they need more sun... I picked my very last courgette yesterday, and I think I saw another two or three brambles - but that's about it for this year! Oh no, just remembered there's a few small, hardy lettuces, and some chard as well.
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Food looks great. Love the idea of gathering chestnuts and mushrooms in the woods at this time of year. I haven't gathered any chestnuts for years. But we now grow our own mushrooms on logs. Started this a few years ago, first nothing appeared for ages and we forgot about those logs in a dark corner of the smallholding....now lots appear.
Sloe gin now in a dark corner of the kitchen. Will consume at Christmas!
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