What are you eating today?

loopyloo- I make the pesto and keep it in jars in the 'back' fridge. Keeps for ages.

janerowena, how lovely to meet another forager. Foraging is one of lives true pleasures, and nowadays it is one way to feel very close to dad- as we enjoyed foraging together since I was a tiny child.

Morel, now THAT is lucky- morels are so hard to find, and soooooo expensive these days. Didn't find a single one this year, despite knowing all the best 'coin' (spots) for them around here. I've totally run out of my reserves- so must replenish this Spring. The other spring mushroom is the one that gave the Brits the word- coming from French 'mousseron'- which is the St Georges mushroom- end of April in most of the UK, and beginning of June here at altitude. We are so lucky to have a huge fairy ring of them that comes up each year- I had about 20kilos of them last year. I dry quite a lot and still go some to use before they come up again (now under 6ft of snow).

In East Leics we had tons to sloes- and also many mushrooms, shaggy ink caps, blewitts, bluelegs, and parasol mushrooms, but also horse mushrooms- but used to pick most in the Peak District. Which is where I found the only 3 morels I've ever found in the UK, near Lathkill Dale. Yorkshire Dales and Peak District always made me feel at home, as it is limestone and wild water country- so very similar, apart that here is much more wooded.

Pushing the boat out tonight with home made chicken and sweetcorn soup, then duck in home made plum sauce and a stirfry.

We have wild garlic at the bottom of our garden by the stream. Love it!

Cheese topped crumpets for breakfast, filled roll for lunch followed by fruit. Tonight OH is cooking a chicken stir-fry followed by fruit.

It keeps for some months in jars, I used to make loads of it and top up the jars with neat olive oil until I wanted it. I have made it when I lived in Kent, but it doesn't like my sandy slightly acid soil here. If you can find somewhere cool and dark to store it all it keeps for even longer, I have managed to keep it for a year in the past, but just occasionally it has fermented.

Yes, I am a forager too. I am so lucky here, I have a wood full of elderberries, so make elderberry cordial (wonderful for colds), elderflower cordial and sorbet, elderflower champagne and add them to hedgerow jam with the blackberries and crabapples. No mushrooms around though, sadly, although last year I found some morels growing in a bed I had barked, so I hope they will come up again.

I have never managed to find sloes in this area, either, apart from at roadsides, so have to make damson gin instead.

The woods behind my house are thick with wild garlic in Spring but I didn't know you could make pesto with it!
Do you freeze the garlic or as pesto? Or will it keep in jars?

We've just had a Cumberland pasty with carrots, peas and beans and mash with gravy. OH is working this evening, so what to have for tea is the question. Probably soup.

I grow my own wild garlic in a container. The woods at Ashton Court on edge of Bristol are smothered in it in spring and early summer. The smell of garlic can be quite overpowering when it's in flower.

When I came home last Monday, DS gave me half a dozen very fresh eggs from his chickens. Today I will have two of them on toast with a sliced tomato for lunch. Mushroom risotto for evening meal.

It grows in abundance by a small mountain river above our house- and it is such a lovely walk to go there and pick a big basketful to make the pesto. Must remember to buy a big bag of pinenuts when I next go to UK, as it is quite expensive here and in nearby France.

I grew up here in the Jura mountains, and my parents were very keen on wild foods, all sorts of mushrooms/fungi, wild fruits like strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, sloes, elder- and so much more. In the UK where we lived, I was known as the 'badger and mushroom' lady, lol

Wild garlic pesto - I have to make do with flat-leaved parsley.

thanks- gf of course! I do feel for anyone who has to follow stric diets due to intolerances. As some of you know- GS is very severaly allergic to egg and some nuts- and that is so so so difficult- as cross contamination is so easy- and as so many foods do not contain either- but then 'may contain traces' grrrrr.

Tortellinis with lardons and the last of the wild garlic pesto- from locally gathered wild garlic last Summer- and a dash of cream and a little Gruyères, our local cheese, as I don't have any parmesan in the house + chicory salad.

kittylester how did you know?

I was going to have butternut squash soup for lunch yesterday, but then just forgot to eat, what with the weekly shop and unpacking it. So I went for a bar of chocolate at 3pm, wondering why on earth I was so hungry, then as I opened the fridge to put away some groceries noticed the untouched soup! Chocolate is very filling, though.

This morning I chopped up and fried a couple of rashers of bacon, then added chopped mushrooms and broke an egg onto the top, then flipped it all over after a while. It's not the same as poached eggs on toast - my favourite, and probably far more slimming, but I get very bored with plain boiled eggs in my Gf times.

I am determined to stick with it though, so that hopefully I can eat anything I fancy on the menu on Friday 14th, and DBH has remembered to book a table somewhere in good time for once. (Not because he is romantically inclined, but because he does like a reason to go out and east good food!)

Lunch will be the forgotten butternut squash soup from yesterday. Tonight we are having a fishy stirfry with gf noodles. Actually they look as if they are free of just about anything at all - I do hope they taste ok!

They are called 'slim noodles', has anyone ever tried them?

www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/eat-water-slim-noodles-60007566

Whatever dinner DD provides for me and DGS when I am babysitting tonight.

Porridge with chunks of mango then later today I'll be making a pot of cockaleekie soup. No idea what to have for dinner yet.

I'm only on my second espresso so dinner is too far away to think about

Quite happy for you, or anyone, to join in nannieoz.

Having to follow a gf diet is sometimes a good excuse for being 'forced' to eat chocolate at lunchtime!! [grin

GF crumpets today for breakfast. TGIFriday for lunch (with DGC1 & 2) for lunch. Pizza for supper!

Hi granjura. Gf means gluten free. Some people have an intolerance to gluten and have to eat only gluten free foods. Hope kittylester doesn't mind me joining in this thread.

Gluten free. It's very hard to find gluten free lunches when you go out. They all have pasta or croutons added to the salads. or couscous.

wow that sounds good Kitty! What is Gf though?

We were snowbound today, so used up bits and pieces from the fridge, a local sausage, braised chicory and fried left over potatoes. Not the most healthy, but it is so bitterly cold here, so a necessary evil. DH has man flu, so I even cheered him up later by making him rock cakes- I very very rarely bake.

Gf cornflakes.

A flake and a cup of tea as there were no Gf sandwiches where I had lunch
Fillet steak with stilton and Madeira sauce with lyonnaise potatoes.

DGS here tonight, so Grandmas' home-made Tomato and roasted red Pepper soup with Garlic bread and Jelly(from UK) and ice cream for dessert.

Bacon, 1 sausage, baked beans, mushrooms and eggy bread and a dollop of brown sauce - yum.

Treating myself to a sushi cone from Lidl (looks OK!) and salad for lunch and later, I may have a prawn curry... well, a curry of some description.
I have plenty of veg to use up.

So interesting to see ideas. Thank you all.

I'm making leek and potato soup for lunch. For dinner tonight when Mr. Hjj is home, ( more like high tea really) I have some haddock. I'm going to make a prawn sauce with it, and cauliflower. After that, I don't know.

Last night when I got home I had a rice cake (forced myself to like them at last) with a sliver of melted brie on top.

Today's breakfast is porridge drizzled with a little maple syrup to sweeten it, lunch will be more of the butternut squash soup. Tonight, I really fancy pommes dauphinoise but can't think what to have with it. I think I shall just have some salad, maybe with some avocado in it. Somewhere a handful of dried fruit and nuts will be involved.

Breakfast - Kale, a banana, an apple, piece of lemon (unpeeled), piece of ginger all blitzed with water into a smoothie

Lunch - Toasted muffin with cheese and chilli salsa

Evening - Home made cannelloni and lettuce.

Also shortbread and a few handfuls of cashew nuts