FFK Journal
Keep up-to-date with Family Foraging Kitchen right here, where we will be sharing all sorts of posts, including the latest news about our initiatives, great wild food recipes, information about southeast Cornwall, and advice on how to develop your own foraging skills!
The D.S.T (Dulse, Sea Beet, & Tomato) Sandwich
Dock Leaf Soup with rice, egg, and lemon
Spicy Penne Pasta With Yarrow And Tomatoes
Fennel, Yarrow, Goat Cheese, and wild chive pizza
Sea Beet Soup With Haddock
Vegan Charlock Sushi Rolls
Sea Spaghetti All’Amatriciana
Creamy Dandelion Quesadillas
Wild Primrose Salad
Wild primroses' (Primula vulgaris L.) flowers and leaves are delicious in salads. Only collect the small young leaves as the larger and older they become, so...
A Simple, Delicious, and vegan Nettle Pasta
This pasta recipe is designed for fresh nettles. You'll see I use no egg here like some fresh pasta recipes. The reason is because I think it’s an unnecessary...
Seaweed Bread Dumplings with Wild Miso Broth
This is a great way to utilise stale bread or bread that’s coming up to its sell by date. We waste 900,000 tonnes of bread every year in the UK. This equates...
Spaghetti with Dandelion Pumpkin Seed Pesto and Cheddar Cheese
‘Cheesy Pesto Pasta’ is a dish my kids request every week without fail. However, jars of pesto are not cheap. Making your own is super easy and remember that...
Pennywort & Three Cornered Leek Salad with ‘Wildly Pimped’ Instant Packet Noodle
At the time of publication, the cheapest packet of instant noodles can be purchased for 25p. This economic cupboard staple can save my meals just before a pay...
Curried Lentil, Dock & Sweet Root Vegetable Soup with Dulse Seaweed
This recipe is about rethinking perceived value. Lentils have been considered both a peasant food and a delicacy. Similarly, dock leaves, which we now tend to...
Alexander, Nettle, Chickpea & Corned Beef Fried Rice
Leftover rice? There is no need to throw it away. Cooked rice is so versatile and shouldn’t be left to go to waste. Simply stretch it into another great...
The Character Of Spoon Carving
This year, we have begun hosting a variety of woodworking courses, from birdhouses to yoga stools, with the intention of offering individuals the opportunity...
From Winter To Spring
As the landscape begins to leave the frosts of winter behind, its springtime bounty begins to appear and, for foragers especially, this is a remarkably...
The Free Food Forever Initiative
The act of sourcing one’s food from the wild is remarkably powerful and its why we continue to offer free foraging walks to communities across Cornwall. It...
The Art of Hedgelaying
The British countryside has been laced with robust and handsome hedges, cultivated living barriers that divide and protect land, for many centuries and, while...
What Is Coppicing?
Those who have wandered through woodlands and spotted regimented trees, each with branches that extend from thin, often numerous, trunks, are likely to have...