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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: deepinthewoods on October 21, 2012, 09:04:20 pm

Title: first and last.
Post by: deepinthewoods on October 21, 2012, 09:04:20 pm

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.
 
 

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: colliewoman on October 21, 2012, 09:08:52 pm

 :yum: :yum: :yum: :yum:


Looks fab!


Well done :thumbsup:

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: Carl f k on October 21, 2012, 09:10:58 pm

Yum.. Sausage and chestnut stuffing for Xmas

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 21, 2012, 09:15:40 pm

Looks and sounds very  :yum: :yum: :yum:

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: Mammyshaz on October 21, 2012, 10:40:12 pm

A good harvest  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: Moleskins on October 21, 2012, 10:53:17 pm

Darn it and all I've got is two bottles of gin and some sloes  :'(

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: deepinthewoods on October 21, 2012, 11:06:41 pm

 :D   swap? actually too late, ive already gone and eaten them lovely sweet chestnuts. i do like a good sloe gin tho. ;D

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: tizaala on October 22, 2012, 06:39:40 am

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....

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: plumseverywhere on October 22, 2012, 07:37:11 am

They look brilliant  :) Never tried chestnuts but they do look very nice.

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: Sylvia on October 22, 2012, 07:57:28 am

Better dried than pickled though and keep for years :wave:

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: Mel on October 22, 2012, 08:43:09 am

Oh,how I love Chestnuts  :yum: :yum: :yum: ;D

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Post by: RUSTYME on October 22, 2012, 12:56:21 pm

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 .

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: Ina on October 22, 2012, 03:32:22 pm

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.

Title: Re: first and last.
Post by: Wendy@blueborage on October 22, 2012, 10:55:54 pm

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!

Wendy@blueborage

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