A Wonderful Foraged Feast - my foraging tasting menu (3 May 2014)
This weekend we hooked up with Jade Mellor from Wild Pickings and put together a food foraging feast at the local town hall cafe. It was a great night with over 30 people arriving at 7pm at Lampeter's Town Hall Deli Cafe to enjoy the 7 course tasting menu. We started out with a glass of Prosecco with locally sourced and produced bilberry syrup followed by a salad of leaves and flowers. The watercress and garlic soup was really refreshing. Next, a sea beet and chanterelle tartlet and then a local coracle caught fillet of sewin, sea purslane tapenade and sorrel. Dessert courses included chocolate laver brownies with gorse flower ice cream (citrus overtones), elderflower and carrageenan pannacotta and rosehip syrup. To finish, a warming and refreshing lemon balm mint tea.
It was satisfying to cook with wild foraged ingredients and knowing that these were picked locally and straight from nature's pantry. I confess it did make me feel a little bit warm inside. Feedback generally noted how flavoursome the edible salads were with the wild garlic and mixture of edible flowers and leaves.
We hope to do another one of these foraged feasts soon with Jade. Thanks Jade for introducing us to the world of foraged food!
Some photos below!
