[deepinthewoods]

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.
 
 

[colliewoman]

 


Looks fab!


Well done

[Carl f k]

Yum.. Sausage and chestnut stuffing for Xmas

[Lesley Silvester]

Looks and sounds very 

[Mammyshaz]

A good harvest 

[Moleskins]

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

[deepinthewoods]

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

[tizaala]

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
 
Those beans are a bit curley , get the iron out....

[plumseverywhere]

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

[Sylvia]

Better dried than pickled though and keep for years

[Mel]

Oh,how I love Chestnuts 

[RUSTYME]

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 .

[Ina]

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.

[Wendy@blueborage]

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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