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Wild California
Добавлен 17 апр 2013
Physicist retired from corporate tech after 25 years. Now exploring wild foods and nature in The Golden State.
DIY fishing, foraging, farming, fermentation, hunting, gardening, cooking, and nature adventures.
DIY fishing, foraging, farming, fermentation, hunting, gardening, cooking, and nature adventures.
Snorkeling San Diego (ASMR)
Come explore the world beneath our feet! We had a brief window of epic visibility here and I did a couple dives to see what I could film.
Music by Stick Figure
#snorkeling #freediving #sandiego #asmrvideo
Music by Stick Figure
#snorkeling #freediving #sandiego #asmrvideo
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Spiny lobster catch n cook
Просмотров 172Месяц назад
I don't know if anyone reads these descriptions. I recently discovered this band @StickFigure, and I'm obsessed. Crazy story but this year the lobster opener coincided with a food and music festival called San Diego Bayfest. Stick Figure was the headliner Friday night and the music was travelling across the water with extreme high fidelity. I kept pausing my dive to sit on the jetty and listen ...
How to make red wine (no talking/relaxation)
Просмотров 1 тыс.2 месяца назад
Join us for another trip to Valentina Vineyards. This is the end to end process of making a red wine (Sangiovese); harvest to press. There is months of aging processes ahead (malolactic fermentation, oaking, bulk ageing, bottling); but in just one week you can make pretty freaking tasty wine. valentinavineyards.com/ There's no narration or dialog in this video. Music by Stick Figure: 'Once in a...
Home Winemaking: Harvest and crush
Просмотров 2092 месяца назад
Come along for the harvest, crush and de-stem, and then make final measurements of the must, and learn to pitch yeast. Enjoy a visit to beautiful Valentina Vineyards! (valentinavineyards.com/) Sugar and acid guidelines by style: www.smartwinemaking.com/post/optimal-sugar-and-acid-levels-for-popular-wine-grape-varieties Some stuff you'll find useful if you want to make wine at home : refractomet...
California Golden Currants!
Просмотров 473 месяца назад
Foraging and processing one of California's hidden gems; Golden Currants (aka ribes aureum). Learn about this delicious berry and how to process it. I love my food mill, well worth the investment*: amzn.to/3SCmzfa *This channel uses Amazon Affiliate Links #foraging #berry #berries
Wild elderflower mead
Просмотров 985 месяцев назад
I went out to forage some elderberries and I found the plants are super confused! Most of the trees in my area are still in bloom. So we work with what we got; elderflower mead! Some supplies if you want to make this*: Bung stoppers for juice jugs: amzn.to/4ei7uss Airlocks: amzn.to/3x9jjk5 Champagne Yeast: amzn.to/4aXCY4a *This channel uses Amazon Affiliate Links
Tough mushroom hunt saved by wild turkeys!
Просмотров 846 месяцев назад
I went out for a mushroom foray with the San Diego Mycological Society. Mushrooms were kinda thing on the ground but we did manage to find something else exciting!
Soundscape: Hawaiian Rainforest at Night -- 1 hour
Просмотров 326 месяцев назад
Relax to the night time sounds of the Hawaiian Rainforest. Listen to the chirping of frogs, crickets, and geckos as a gentle drizzle beads up and drips off the roof.
Jetty hopping for pickled mussels
Просмотров 2867 месяцев назад
Quick trip out to the jetty to forage some wild California mussels. There are still a few weeks left in the season; go get you some!!! BEFORE collecting wild shellfish, always call the Biotoxin Hotline: 1-800-553-4133 www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/Shellfish-Advisories.aspx#:~:text=For updated information on shellfish,(800) 553-4133.
The secret to epic potato harvests!
Просмотров 2457 месяцев назад
I turned 20 old sprouted potatoes into 20 pounds of new potatoes! These are the results of testing out new coaxing method, to grow more potatoes, using straw. The seed potatoes are a waste product (rotten/sprouted) and the straw is ag waste. This method easily quadrupled my harvest.
Foraging wild spring greens and making wild fennel cakes!
Просмотров 2817 месяцев назад
I went out for a hike before SoCal turns into Satan's sauna. I was hoping to find some spring greens to collect and cook some food. Most of what I say is starting to flower and getting bitter. But I did manage to find some wild fennel. Here is the detailed recipe I used to make these: foragerchef.com/wild-fennel-cakes/ This fellow has a book on foraging and cooking wild plants called "Flora", w...
The most AMAZING fruit I’ve ever tasted: Purple Custard Apple! Also a quick announcement
Просмотров 1877 месяцев назад
This is seriously a mind blowing fruit; the purple custard apple. They are in season RIGHT NOW (spring) if you're lucky enough to have them growing near you. I got my at Specialty Produce in San Diego: www.specialtyproduce.com/produce/Purple_Custard_Apples_17327.php
Foolproof smoked fish recipe
Просмотров 4578 месяцев назад
Here I will show you my foolproof method for how to smoke fish. This is based on a method I have been developing for over a decade: The Method of 2's. Getchya some fish and LFG!!!
Lost GoPro turns into found yellowtail! || Yellowtail aguachile
Просмотров 1618 месяцев назад
Lost GoPro turns into found yellowtail! || Yellowtail aguachile
Homemade and homegrown Grand Marnier! (Orange brandy)
Просмотров 2238 месяцев назад
Homemade and homegrown Grand Marnier! (Orange brandy)
Rare Fruit Tasting: Longan and Jackfruit
Просмотров 309 месяцев назад
Rare Fruit Tasting: Longan and Jackfruit
Planting bareroot strawberries! || Vertical growing
Просмотров 589 месяцев назад
Planting bareroot strawberries! || Vertical growing
Identifying the wild mushrooms of Southern California
Просмотров 7989 месяцев назад
Identifying the wild mushrooms of Southern California
How to clean and cook an octopus || Octopus Ceviche and Spanish-style Tapas
Просмотров 1719 месяцев назад
How to clean and cook an octopus || Octopus Ceviche and Spanish-style Tapas
How to cook dried beans. (And make bean burritos!)
Просмотров 799 месяцев назад
How to cook dried beans. (And make bean burritos!)
Low tide goofin and shell hunting
Просмотров 3,8 тыс.10 месяцев назад
Low tide goofin and shell hunting
Review of Ostba Meat Slicer || Homemade lunch meat
Просмотров 35 тыс.10 месяцев назад
Review of Ostba Meat Slicer || Homemade lunch meat
Delicious, healthy, and hearty lentil stew || Chef's Secret to great soups!
Просмотров 9410 месяцев назад
Delicious, healthy, and hearty lentil stew || Chef's Secret to great soups!
Mushroom foraging in San Diego! | Catch & Cook
Просмотров 66910 месяцев назад
Mushroom foraging in San Diego! | Catch & Cook
Rare Fruit: Tasting Cherimoya vs Atemoya
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.10 месяцев назад
Rare Fruit: Tasting Cherimoya vs Atemoya
Really, *REALLY* appreciate your nice, straight forward, NO nonsense delivery, such a HUGE refreshing change from all these RUclipsrs who think they are so hip and slick. No thanks, I'll take yours ANY day! 😁👍 Geez, finally someone NORMAL who is sharing hopefully a good product that doesn't cost a frigg'n fortune. Thanks SO much Bro!
Wow, thanks for this rad comment! I'm glad you liked the video. FWIW I've this thing now 9 months. It's def cheap but it works fine, easy to clean, and I've had no issues.
@@Wild_California Hey, that is great to know, thanks! BTW, after seeing your excellent video, I went ahead and bought the 200w version which is just 1 step up from this one. Amazon had a $20 coupon so it was only $89, and I'm guessing maybe having a little more power wouldn't hurt. I went ahead and bought the Asurion 4 year warranty for like $29. For stuff like this I usually do that just in case. I'll hafta check out how you make that roast beef. Roast beef has never been my first choice for sandwiches, usually it's been more Italian/Sub stuff like pepperoni, etc. But, what you made there looked *SO* damn good, I'm thinking that I want to try that. I need to go back and see what type of meat it was again to know what to look for, and also how long to leave it in the oven (I have a toaster oven too if that works, and maybe an Instant Pot too, IDK, I've never done stuff like that) Never made bread either, but I love sourdough! Thanks so much again Bro!
@ for roasting meats I generally do an initial blast of heat, 450F for 15 min. Then I turn the heat down to 250F until I hit the interval temp I want. Works for any meats. The roast beef is an eye of round but you can use top or bottom round too. I don’t see it working out with the instapot. Maybe you can make it work with the toaster oven but I think it will be more finicky. Good luck!
@@Wild_California Excellent, thanks kindly for the added suggestions! Could you possibly give me some range or general idea as to what the average time usually might be at 250 until you feel it is ready? Don't have a meat thermometer, but I do have a full oven.
@ it depends on the size and thickness of the roast. You need a meat thermometer or you’re just guessing. Timing can be in the range half an hour to sometimes 1.5 hours.
The jackfruit you've had doesn't look like it should, maybe not ripe. Jackfruit is very very sweet. If you know Juicy Fruit gum, the makers of that gum copied the jackfruit flavor. I think anyone who likes fruit is bound to love jackfruit. I live in Costa Rica and grow 4 different kinds. In this fruit paradise, jackfruit and cherimoya are my favorites.
@@CRMollie I had eaten it before, circa 2003 in Thailand. And it was marvelous. I def agree the one I had here is not prime condition. It was almost fermenty. Thanks for watching!
Hey man, I’m up north more towards Chico, I keep finding mushrooms that are big and flatish and either red or brownish and have the raised light colored bumps all over them, like the super Mario mushrooms. There are so many mushrooms that fit that description, how can I find what these are? I don’t really eat mushrooms unless on pizza, I just want to know these things are toxic for my livestock. They grow enough here that a non mushroom guy who isn’t looking for them sees them fairly regularly during the wetter part of the year. I live in oak scrub foothills not quite high enough for the pine trees yet.
Holy cow, I think you talk about it at the end, but I can’t figure out what you are saying exactly because I don’t know the terminology. I have lots of manzanita here too, and madrone trees, I know those only grow in certain area.
@@TheFrogfeeder are they big (like 6-8” across the top), red with white spots, and open up kinda flat? Sounds like amanita muscaria; try looking that up. Otherwise I’d need to see photos.
@ yes that describes them good, I’ll look it up, thanks
@ I think in that video I might have mentioned an app called iNaturalist. Take photos of the top, from the side, looking up into the gills. And it will look up your specimen in a database.
The sugar apple is more grainy as far as texture. It also has the flesh attached to the seeds. The atemoya and cherimoya are firmer fleshed( like custard) and the seeds are free from the flesh. Custard apples are reddish skin and the flesh is yellowish and grainy. All have hints of banana, pineapple and sometimes mango.
Fabulosity. Great ethical fishing, equally great cooking skills. That lobster meat looks absolutely delicious. I live in and love Tucson, AZ, but sadly no spiny or other lobsters here!
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
YES!! Looks amazing. Great work and nice hat too. Dungy season comin up soon so hope to see you in Norcal.
Thanks! You know I’ll be there!
Yes, I read the description!Love love the music. Everything about the video, the dive, the grilling,brilliant!
@@slochel thanks so much!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Amazing finds. Good commentary with vital information for our beloved abalone. Thank you!
@@abalone1122 thanks for watching!
Thanks 👍
Looks SO good. Instead of bread make onigiri with sushi rice and nori.
Hey man, thanks for posting! I'm on a mission to find this exact fruit (it's tough out here in Chicago) and your words are extremely validating. I already know it's the holy grail of fruit and I've never had it. Best of luck to you and the channel.
Thanks for watching!!! It’s an amazing fruit. I bought mine from a rare fruit purveyor; but I believe they do grow in Southern California. I’m trying it now with the seeds I collected. Good luck finding one, let me know how much you love it!
Where is the butter 🧈 😂
Loose that awful music!
Get rid of that awful attitude
@@Nutrizenhealth 🤪
@@Nutrizenhealth 6 views WOW- wonder why? Marketing 101 is to appeal to all audiences.
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Vegans need to watch this video.
I love the overall size. I live in a tiny apart in NYC and even I can find space in a storage closet for this.
LIVING THE DREAM BROTHER
I just ordered one. Your video is helpful, thank you!
The disease Alalone Viral Ganglioneuritis that causes the wasting away of the animal really has been devastating. Once the Back Abalone was abundant intertidally as late as the mid 1970s possibly 80s, now as you note finding a single broken shell is noteworthy. Hopefully resistant animals will repopulate the West Coast. I've visited and shelled California many times and only have one shell find myself, never seen a live one. New Zealand and Tasmania still have good populations of Abalone, I just hope the same thing doesn't happen there.
Do you think its worth going out and looking for mushrooms at this time of year (late may)? Maybe oysters or chicken of the woods are out? (NorCal coast)
This time of year ppl are still finding morels and sometimes spring porcini. But it def gets tougher. You need moisture. So places with lots of fog drip can sometimes produce through spring and summer. Also in the sierras near where the snow is melting. It gets tougher but some ppl are able to find mushrooms in CA almost year round.
@@Wild_California thanks so much for the response
@@benjaminwerthan2656 thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching!
Super cool, do you take people out to learn?
You could cruise with me sometime. Season is over now until we get lots of rain again.
Have you ever tried acid magic? works like muriatic acid but won't burn skin. still wear eyeglasses, but way less scary then muriatic acid.
I have not heard of that before. I’m reading it has less fumes too. Thanks!
Muranic acid destroys the outer part of the shell. Any shell thus treated is no longer considered a specimen shell. It will be more colorful, but it is eating away a shell.
OK np thanks anyways
Thanks for watching!
@Wild_California just keep on growing!😊😊
Delicious. Do you sell the seeds of these fruit?
I have not but I have some seedlings if you want one. Are you local to SD? The seeds can be harvested direct from the fruit, if you can get some.
@@Wild_Californiapresently I live in Barbados. I've never seen this tree here nor the fruit
@@geriannroth449 I did a little digging online and it seems that fruit is maybe not present in Barbados. I could mail you seeds maybe (or you could try Etsy) but I suspect it will get confiscated in customs?
@Wild_California I've tried Esty with some other seeds but they've been mostly Not viable
@@Wild_Californiawell if you send them to my family's address in the USA, they'll just bring them down when they visit me
right on man, can i make this recipe on my channel and credit you ?
Yeah man, absolutely! Your channel looks cool; def gonna check it out.
Dig it
Nice!
Hi, Im a new viewer having only subscribed after your last video. Ive lived in San Diego my whole life and yet your videos are showing me wonderful new places and experiences the county has to offer. I have never forraged for my own food, but your channel is definitely giving me the inspiration to start.
What a rad comment. Thanks! I appreciate you watching and letting me know you like it!
Neato
No potatoes keep producing up just because you hill, they may give a few 3 or 4 inches higher but hardly ever above that unless you plant more potatoes in the hill.
Good to know. I did kind of think you can arbitrarily extend the growth up. But that helps explain my results. This was however my best harvest of all time; so I believe there is some benefit to doing this.
@@Wild_California Some people think they can hill up there potatoes 15 to 20 inches and the tubers will keep growing to the top, not going to happen. Glad you had a great yield.
Lol@the chicken wanting more grub
They are obsessed!
That’s so great!
Yeah huge harvest!
Nice
Cool Matt
Aproveche!
🙏🙏🙏 Thanks to the fish giver. ☝️
Stinging nettle soup is OUT OF THIS WORLD!
I just saw a recipe in the book I linked above (Flora) for nettle soup. Looks amazing. I might have to go back out.
@@Wild_California add some dandelion and wild mustard greens and you’ll wish you could get it year round. I can the soup.
Awesome video, dude!
Rad, dude! Thanks for letting me know you liked it.
Bros surviving the apocalypse
Haha. Nice. 🤙
Looks great!! thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
work is ass
gimme a crazy fish recipe
oh yeah buddy
Hell yeah. 🤙
2:39 if you get a net backpack or bag and with the mushrooms in the strawberry containers you could also help the spores to spread while foraging and walking around
Cheese is the real test!
What’s good about that roast beef is that you can slice an early thin and make good cheesesteaks.
You have any tips for cleaning wavy turbans? I left mine with the periostracum on because I was a bit worried about ruining it with acid.
What a fun question! I have only picked up three wavy turban snails. One had already been polished by sun and sand. One I let the sun and a gentle wire brush do the work. And one I used muriatic acid on. I think this shell needs a lighter tough. The shells where sun and abrasion were used have a much higher gloss and nice finish. The one in acid washed is duller, but the shell took on a pinkish hue. If I wet it, or apply some varnish, it’s quite pretty. Sometime I would like to etch one all the way down to the nacre; but haven’t got there yet. Thanks for watching!
@@Wild_California The pinkish hue is what I'm aiming for. I think I'll have to head down to Santa Barbara again to collect some more to do some tests on. Thankfully I'll be moving to Monterey this August from my home in the Bay Area so I'll only be a few hours from SoCal. I've been to SoCal to collect shells twice (Isla Vista and Newport Beach). I recommend looking out for some of the smaller species too like Chestnut cowries and Solander's trivia shells. Have one of each in my display cabinet and they are beautiful.
@@isaacc473 I do have a few chestnut cowries I picked up on a dive. They are already naturally polished/shiny and gorgeous. I’ll keep an eye out for the Solander trivia. More low tides this weekend!
I would kill to live where you do and have the opportunity to just walk along the sea side. I couldn't care less if I found anything, just to be there near the ocean and have that gorgeous area to walk around. I hope you know how truly blessed you are. I live in a brown, dry, ugly, too hot or too cold climate in Canada......nowhere near the ocean......hell....nowhere near any water period. Those are stunning shells you found. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
For sure, San Diego is an amazing place to live. In fact most of California is gorgeous and amazing. I’ll be doing a lot more ocean content in the coming months. Thanks for watching and I hope you’ll stick around for more.
You need to try and cut meat that is hot for a true review. How does it due on a roast beef dinner.
I tried a cheap slicer just like this one with the round bar in the front. Not a fan. It ended up in the trash and I invested in a 10" slicer with plenty of power. It was underpowered and had a serrated blade just like the one you are using. After using commercial slicers for the better part of 50 years, couldn't stand the cheap slicer. Had to up my game!
I wonder how hard it is to get a replacement blade