For a soup thickener you could use the huge taproot under a cattail. Tastes like potatoe, when crushed with water it makes almost a glue like substance its almost pure starch.. Screen out the matter and dry the starch and grind it to powder. Lasts forever. If you do a small pack then you can just dry it and stash it
This is so great! There was a cooking show on TV years ago, that the chefs had to go and forage their own herbs and vegetables, and hunt their own protein, using the traditional methods of the indigenous or local peoples. I loved it, and they canceled after just one season I believe. This is along that same vein. Great work!
My favorite thing (other than the actual content of course) is the RUclips captions like it thinks the river is applauding and the blender is music it’s pretty amusing
Something that I commonly use as a thickener is common mallow. It is a member of the okra family, so it can be used as a replacement for it as a thickener in gumbo or soups and stews! The whole plant is edible. It is usually around until fairly late in the season and comes up pretty early in my area as well. That mustard that you grabbed looks more like hedge mustard than it does field mustard.
OMG you stole my heart when you fed those carrot tops to those tiny pets you have, so adorable. This is a beautiful, healthy and informative video, I wonder why you don't have more than a million views. I wish the traffic that goes to nonsensical videos all the time diverts here for good.
Nice job. In PA, we can`t get any wild stuff now, but, when the spring weeds start to grow, and all through summer and fall, I collect dock, violet, garlic mustard, dandelion, tall lettuce, chickweed and other greens and their flowers and dry them and store them in paper bags for making a vegetable side dish for supper and make powder with the rest. A tablespoon of powder sprinkled on sauteed potato and onion with a couple of eggs and cayenne pepper is great.
It’s January in Connecticut and we still have garlic mustard, for instance. Not sure what the quality is at this time of year, but we really enjoyed it in spring and summer.
Here is a little FYI: I don't know if you have this around the area you live, but their is a plant called "field penny-cress." I notice this plant in many mediterranean and middle eastern seasoning. It is a wild spice that taste almost like sweet garlic. you strip the seeds off, grind off the papery outside, and you get these little seeds that look like poppy seeds.
I enjoyed watching the video. Great one for anyone interested in learning about survival. I will have to visit the store and possibly purchase the pocket guide.
Great video! I did watch your previous soup video a while ago, and I really enjoyed this new and improved winter soup! I'm also in the PNW and always looking to learn more about the edible plants in this area. So I hope we get a new video soon :)
Ohoho black walnuts, I'm already sold. Where I am in western NY, one could easily forage literally hundreds of pounds. They are absolutely everywhere and most people here in yuppie vill can't be bothered. I still have a few from last fall. I got way more hickory nuts still but that's because I eat them less lol
@@TheNorthwestForager ha,same! And then people complain that food prices are going up too! Also hickory is great, yeah. We have shagbark here in abundance but apparently we also get shellbarks. I've never seen one though. The nuts are ridiculously delicious but are rather tedious since they don't crack well and are rather small. I know black walnut gets the reputation of one of the worst nuts to crack but for me, it's definitely shagbark hickory! I personally just use a vice for the black and it works fine. They're big enough to where it doesn't feel tedious to me, since you get so much meat out of a single nut. The north is so much more abundant than most people think! Cheers from one side of the north to another fella! Great content, great work
@@AdaptiveApeHybrid When we were kids, we use to sit under the shag bark hickory tree and crack the nuts all afternoon long. There was a plate sized rock ground level and we would pick a good had held rock to hit them just right. Grandfather called us the hickory nut sisters.-John's wife
We too have the same thoughts. How to forage meals in each season. Thoughts for teas, general medicinal, perennial food forests and storage preservation. Thank you for your videos. -John's wife
I have heard but not tried reconstituting dryed mushrooms past optimal freshness that naturally dried in the fall. They likened it to dried mushroom that you soak or steam to rehydrate. On my list.- Johns wife
p.s. We would miss a bread or flat bread. Know acorn, golden rod flour, amaranth but must process and try. Nut breads, hickory, walnut ect. -John's wife
Heyy buddy this is one of the best videos I have ever seen . Good combination of ingredients, rare and exotic . I wonder definitely it could be tastier than ever .
Hey man I really enjoyed the vid!! You should try making some queen annes lace preserves and some elderberry syrup! Oregon is one of the best places on earth for wild foraging. If you ever are in the LaGrande/Elgin area there's lots of camas fields which would be really cool to see a vid on also!
So glad I found this channel! I loved this video. I had never seen the technique you used on the quail egg where you cut it open. I'm going to use that. Thanks for the content and happy foraging.
I havent checked all your videos but I hope you can show all kinds of edible weeds here in pacific northwest, identification and preparation. Most importantly comparison of their posinous counterparts.
Just found this channel, excited for more recipies and stuff like this! It's hard to find recipes using (mostly) all foraged ingredients. Love how you show the whole process :)
You could have dried nettle tops harvested in spring or autumn. Also dried nettle seed is a plentiful hsrvest, just strip all the seeds in your hand then winnow off the old leaf. You can get yourself a sackful in a few hours. Must make sure you dry it well.
First, luv your video. Second, I process my black walnuts all winter, when I'm sitting around the fire, usually at night, then I store the meat on the cold porch until I need it. Processing the whole meal just as you need the meal is a lot of work to do in a short period on time. Anyway, I'm foraging my New Years meal this year, and just subscribed to your wonderful channel.
I wonder if burdock root would be good, and maybe cattails? Or daylily tubers? I haven't found good spots where I can dig roots though so I haven't done experiments on these.
Those are all great suggestions. Burdock tends to be more bitter than others but I think this time of the year it's younger plant roots should be pretty good.
Very cool, thanks for showing all the steps, I have a bunch of dock seeds and found you from that video. Just subscribed. I have a similar RUclips channel to yours but on the East Coast, Connecticut Zone 6b. Thanks again!
quick tip for extra calcium you can dry out and grind up the eggshells (do not ever do this with bleached commercial eggs) Or composting them is fine too, great video
I loved this! Thank you! I think the suggestions for other things would just be depending on where you are. For me I live in Texas, and there are lots of things that I could suggest a different times of the year but this was really awesome! You hit the nail on the head!
I totally agree with your list of what makes a hearty meal! I always enjoy using a mix of regular ingredients and foraged so it's not bad that you used home grown oysters! Excellent. Is this your first video for a while? I love the guinea pigs, literally my favourite pet! I've got four girls!
Didn't know you could eat bull thistle, then again I didn't know it was called that. Growing up I always called it crab grass and nobody ever corrected me. Apparently crab grass is another plant altogether
Thank you for all this valuable information.if the drying process is complete can you store this in a pantry. For how long ? Will the nuts dry naturally in dry storage ? How do you get a bulk supply like that, have you ever harvested black walnut? It’s not fun at all but probably could make a nice wood stain.
I think if you made the nut meat into balls it would have a better color. Maybe mixing the nutmeat, and dried mushrooms. That way you have better color
I like your thinking! What if I mixed the nut meat, mushroom powder and eggs I could roll and bake them into meatballs 🤔 You've inspired me. Thank you!
I can ship to Canada with this link www.ebay.com/itm/324918475416?epid=0&hash=item4ba6a67a98:g:AqUAAOSw~KVhqSxd However cost of postage may or may not be worth it.
Oh! So excited by this video! Thank you for sharing the search as well as the cooking AND the taste-testing. I'm just wondering if you have a video showing how you grow your mushrooms in the tub like that?
@@TheNorthwestForager Thank you. I would like to grow some mushrooms, but all the videos use expensive equipment and mediums and your set-up seems more do-able for a normal person. I would love if you explained it!
I like it ! You've got a couple of servings of soup, not at all too much. I would add some aminos and Acv for a better taste, and I understand you're in the wild. But I think you did add those ingredients off camera to get a full taste! Did you ? Thank you my friend ❤! 😊
I'm so sorry for the inconvenience! There is another batch currently in production. It should be available again in less than a few weeks. 🙂 Thank you for your interest!
Hello Henry, Your pocket book is sold out on Etsy. Will you be getting more copies soon? I'm really looking forward to it! Need to get 2 copies please.
I haven't yet seen your cat tail episode though here I would mention it as a thickener for soups and stews and as a binder for simple breads. Were it not for celery like stands of fiber I would be tempted to say it's root is all starch.
As a kid I would roast, (roasting brings more flavor), SMALL fish, frogs, rodents, birds, snakes, lizards and near anything that is otherwise not worth my time. I would then dry over the fire and grind them, bones intact, (being selective, omitting some bone), into a powder and use that as you do here.
P. S. I am 58 now and see that this is a real quick fix, I would not make a steady diet of ground bone. I think I'd regret it in the form of calcium stones in my organs
@@jloubelleThey can certainly vary slightly depending where they grow. These in the video were young first year plants over wintering. You may recognize them better in the summer time when they go to flower. However, by then the taproot is too fibrous to eat.
For a soup thickener you could use the huge taproot under a cattail. Tastes like potatoe, when crushed with water it makes almost a glue like substance its almost pure starch.. Screen out the matter and dry the starch and grind it to powder. Lasts forever. If you do a small pack then you can just dry it and stash it
But be careful about water quality
Or mallow if he finds any around him, anoda cristata
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@THNDERHDS absolutely! Simply boil the water first for at least a full minute of rolling boil!
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I would still be concerned about chemicals in the water here in Connecticut.
This is so great! There was a cooking show on TV years ago, that the chefs had to go and forage their own herbs and vegetables, and hunt their own protein, using the traditional methods of the indigenous or local peoples. I loved it, and they canceled after just one season I believe. This is along that same vein. Great work!
what show is it? i would love to watch it!
Yes please! What show was it
@@HimeGirl15 I had to look it up. It was a BBC show called "No kitchen required" back in 2012. I was so sad when it ended!
@@belchen3237 it was called No Kitchen Required from 2012 😊
yes and the other one is called Kings of the Wild
My favorite thing (other than the actual content of course) is the RUclips captions like it thinks the river is applauding and the blender is music it’s pretty amusing
foraging is a skillset they should be teaching in school. survival skills are essential, we never know what will happen in life!
This is a huge reward after a long day of foraging and processing ❤
Something that I commonly use as a thickener is common mallow. It is a member of the okra family, so it can be used as a replacement for it as a thickener in gumbo or soups and stews! The whole plant is edible. It is usually around until fairly late in the season and comes up pretty early in my area as well. That mustard that you grabbed looks more like hedge mustard than it does field mustard.
Thanks for tip 👍
OMG you stole my heart when you fed those carrot tops to those tiny pets you have, so adorable. This is a beautiful, healthy and informative video, I wonder why you don't have more than a million views. I wish the traffic that goes to nonsensical videos all the time diverts here for good.
Thanks you 😁 our guinea pigs are the best!
@@TheNorthwestForager our?
@@edenbercier7511 Mrs. northwest forager and myself
@@TheNorthwestForager Aww... how sweet your both lucky to be living the dream life 💕
No, no-let the others chase their tails. More flora for you and me.
Nice job. In PA, we can`t get any wild stuff now, but, when the spring weeds start to grow, and all through summer and fall, I collect dock, violet, garlic mustard, dandelion, tall lettuce, chickweed and other greens and their flowers and dry them and store them in paper bags for making a vegetable side dish for supper and make powder with the rest. A tablespoon of powder sprinkled on sauteed potato and onion with a couple of eggs and cayenne pepper is great.
It’s January in Connecticut and we still have garlic mustard, for instance. Not sure what the quality is at this time of year, but we really enjoyed it in spring and summer.
In my head I imagined the bull thistle would be similar to artichoke because it looked very similar to an artichoke heart
@@loveyourselfplease6842 that’s what I was wondering, artichoke comes from thistle family
Great video! Loving the audio of the cutting/snipping and the general sounds of wildlife. Thanks for teaching me so much information!
Here is a little FYI: I don't know if you have this around the area you live, but their is a plant called "field penny-cress." I notice this plant in many mediterranean and middle eastern seasoning. It is a wild spice that taste almost like sweet garlic. you strip the seeds off, grind off the papery outside, and you get these little seeds that look like poppy seeds.
Great tip, thank you!
This is an awesome video....never knew these goodies exist, my mouth was watering.❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is the content I was looking for, so glad I found you. 💕
I'm glad you stopped by 😀
I enjoyed watching the video. Great one for anyone interested in learning about survival. I will have to visit the store and possibly purchase the pocket guide.
tastes better than fast food junk food...and the nutrition level is beyond lightyears ahead as well :)
Wow,look delicious,thank you for sharing your knowledge❤
Southern Oregon here, enjoyed this video.
Thanks for watching even despite the poor audio levels. Happy Foraging!
Great video! I did watch your previous soup video a while ago, and I really enjoyed this new and improved winter soup! I'm also in the PNW and always looking to learn more about the edible plants in this area. So I hope we get a new video soon :)
Ohoho black walnuts, I'm already sold. Where I am in western NY, one could easily forage literally hundreds of pounds. They are absolutely everywhere and most people here in yuppie vill can't be bothered. I still have a few from last fall. I got way more hickory nuts still but that's because I eat them less lol
Blows my mind how much quality food just falls to the ground! I wish we had hickory here though
@@TheNorthwestForager ha,same! And then people complain that food prices are going up too!
Also hickory is great, yeah. We have shagbark here in abundance but apparently we also get shellbarks. I've never seen one though. The nuts are ridiculously delicious but are rather tedious since they don't crack well and are rather small. I know black walnut gets the reputation of one of the worst nuts to crack but for me, it's definitely shagbark hickory! I personally just use a vice for the black and it works fine. They're big enough to where it doesn't feel tedious to me, since you get so much meat out of a single nut.
The north is so much more abundant than most people think! Cheers from one side of the north to another fella! Great content, great work
@@AdaptiveApeHybrid Thanks so much! Happy Foraging 😁
@@AdaptiveApeHybrid When we were kids, we use to sit under the shag bark hickory tree and crack the nuts all afternoon long. There was a plate sized rock ground level and we would pick a good had held rock to hit them just right. Grandfather called us the hickory nut sisters.-John's wife
Thank you for the video! I hope you continue to make content like this. I’d be interested in a tour of your homestead!
This is TV level work man.. loving it so much
Much appreciated!
I love this! I'd love to see one specific to February. Nice to see you're making videos again
We too have the same thoughts. How to forage meals in each season. Thoughts for teas, general medicinal, perennial food forests and storage preservation. Thank you for your videos. -John's wife
I have heard but not tried reconstituting dryed mushrooms past optimal freshness that naturally dried in the fall. They likened it to dried mushroom that you soak or steam to rehydrate. On my list.- Johns wife
p.s. We would miss a bread or flat bread. Know acorn, golden rod flour, amaranth but must process and try. Nut breads, hickory, walnut ect. -John's wife
Great video and the cutest basket ever 🤩
Heyy buddy this is one of the best videos I have ever seen .
Good combination of ingredients, rare and exotic . I wonder definitely it could be tastier than ever .
Ohh I love how that oyster mushroom cooked, it looks almost like brisket!
That was fun. I'm glad it was filling. Looks like you have 2 days worth of left overs. Well done
Hey man I really enjoyed the vid!! You should try making some queen annes lace preserves and some elderberry syrup! Oregon is one of the best places on earth for wild foraging. If you ever are in the LaGrande/Elgin area there's lots of camas fields which would be really cool to see a vid on also!
That was a great looking soup
Foraged food is the food for the soul ❤️
Thank you for making another video ! I enjoy them so keep it up ! 😊
So glad I found this channel! I loved this video. I had never seen the technique you used on the quail egg where you cut it open. I'm going to use that. Thanks for the content and happy foraging.
Nice tips! I might try some of these foods sometime after some research of course. Maybe try bulrush in something? I haven't tried it.
I havent checked all your videos but I hope you can show all kinds of edible weeds here in pacific northwest, identification and preparation. Most importantly comparison of their posinous counterparts.
I really enjoyed this video! I don’t really have much of an interest in foraging, but this video was pretty calming and nice to watch :]
Just found this channel, excited for more recipies and stuff like this! It's hard to find recipes using (mostly) all foraged ingredients. Love how you show the whole process :)
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You could have dried nettle tops harvested in spring or autumn. Also dried nettle seed is a plentiful hsrvest, just strip all the seeds in your hand then winnow off the old leaf. You can get yourself a sackful in a few hours. Must make sure you dry it well.
So many possibilities!
I really love these kinds of videos, keep it up! :)
Ohhh so relaxing❤❤🌹
Very relaxing video love it
what a pleasure to find your own food. I congratulate you on the excellent video and good continuity.
I subscrived to tour channel !
First, luv your video. Second, I process my black walnuts all winter, when I'm sitting around the fire, usually at night, then I store the meat on the cold porch until I need it. Processing the whole meal just as you need the meal is a lot of work to do in a short period on time.
Anyway, I'm foraging my New Years meal this year, and just subscribed to your wonderful channel.
Thank you for sharing. Happy Foraging!
I loved this video! It was so relaxing
Beautiful!
That looks delicious 😋🤤
I wonder if burdock root would be good, and maybe cattails? Or daylily tubers? I haven't found good spots where I can dig roots though so I haven't done experiments on these.
Those are all great suggestions. Burdock tends to be more bitter than others but I think this time of the year it's younger plant roots should be pretty good.
Good idea. Cattails would put a lot of starch in the soup
easy to find with no snow lucky u
Nice work, definitely inspiring!
Very cool, thanks for showing all the steps, I have a bunch of dock seeds and found you from that video. Just subscribed. I have a similar RUclips channel to yours but on the East Coast, Connecticut Zone 6b. Thanks again!
Nice work buddy, enjoy that!
Very pog!
quick tip for extra calcium you can dry out and grind up the eggshells
(do not ever do this with bleached commercial eggs)
Or composting them is fine too, great video
Looks very tasty
Interesting information. I’m on the east coast, but we have many (all?) same plants .. I’m just learning to identify wild edibles
Best wishes to you from Siberian forager!
I loved this! Thank you! I think the suggestions for other things would just be depending on where you are. For me I live in Texas, and there are lots of things that I could suggest a different times of the year but this was really awesome! You hit the nail on the head!
Thanks for watching!
I totally agree with your list of what makes a hearty meal! I always enjoy using a mix of regular ingredients and foraged so it's not bad that you used home grown oysters! Excellent. Is this your first video for a while? I love the guinea pigs, literally my favourite pet! I've got four girls!
Yea, first vid in a long time. Our Guinea pigs are great, such fun pets!
@@TheNorthwestForager I think piggies are the funniest pet ever next to Ducks. 🤗
Amazing 👏👏🙀😮
Im surprised you haven't hit 1 million views yet, this is very aesthetic! I enjoyed it.
Thank you very much! Every like and share goes a long way😁
Didn't know you could eat bull thistle, then again I didn't know it was called that. Growing up I always called it crab grass and nobody ever corrected me. Apparently crab grass is another plant altogether
Oh yea, bull thistle is a very under appreciated plant as is the other thistles.
Thank you for all this valuable information.if the drying process is complete can you store this in a pantry. For how long ? Will the nuts dry naturally in dry storage ? How do you get a bulk supply like that, have you ever harvested black walnut? It’s not fun at all but probably could make a nice wood stain.
I’d like to see you make oil with those walnuts and then sauté some veg 🤤
I think if you made the nut meat into balls it would have a better color. Maybe mixing the nutmeat, and dried mushrooms. That way you have better color
I like your thinking! What if I mixed the nut meat, mushroom powder and eggs I could roll and bake them into meatballs 🤔 You've inspired me. Thank you!
So sad, the book does not deliver to Canada??
I can ship to Canada with this link www.ebay.com/itm/324918475416?epid=0&hash=item4ba6a67a98:g:AqUAAOSw~KVhqSxd However cost of postage may or may not be worth it.
Love this 💞😍
Wow, 3 years I haven’t seen this till now?
Oh! So excited by this video! Thank you for sharing the search as well as the cooking AND the taste-testing. I'm just wondering if you have a video showing how you grow your mushrooms in the tub like that?
Hi, thank you! I don't have one but that's a great idea for a video in the future.
@@TheNorthwestForager Thank you. I would like to grow some mushrooms, but all the videos use expensive equipment and mediums and your set-up seems more do-able for a normal person. I would love if you explained it!
I like it ! You've got a couple of servings of soup, not at all too much. I would add some aminos and Acv for a better taste, and I understand you're in the wild. But I think you did add those ingredients off camera to get a full taste! Did you ? Thank you my friend ❤! 😊
The masculine urge to drop everything and do this for the rest of my life 😭😭
Thanks Mate!
I would love a guide book but its sold out
I'm so sorry for the inconvenience! There is another batch currently in production. It should be available again in less than a few weeks. 🙂 Thank you for your interest!
@@TheNorthwestForager whats the name of the book
@@OnyxXThePunch it's in the description 🙂
Hello Henry, Your pocket book is sold out on Etsy. Will you be getting more copies soon? I'm really looking forward to it! Need to get 2 copies please.
That’s one heavy duty nutcracker!! Where do you find something like that?
I searched for it online.
I don't know what umami (sp?) is, I have never heard that term before. My backyard has bull thistle though, so I guess I will try it for myself
Me encanta la idea, pero vivo en México, en la ciudad, pero algo arriba, cerca de las montañas,…
I haven't yet seen your cat tail episode though here I would mention it as a thickener for soups and stews and as a binder for simple breads. Were it not for celery like stands of fiber I would be tempted to say it's root is all starch.
Damn good video
A little more trimming and you could toss in the spines of the bull thistle leaves
Winter is good or even late winter the evil garlic mustard is tatier when it is still cold, once the heat sets in, it get so bitter.
No acorns left? Nice flour/meal substitute.
No... but that's an idea for another video :)
What are the tools you use?
What gloves do you use? Thanks!
i didnt know wild carrots can be eaten
Absolutely! They're simply the original version of the modern farmed carrot. Proper identification is crucial however.
@@TheNorthwestForager queen Anne has hairy legs, but she never gets the spots 😁
How did you identify the first year growth queen qnnes lace?
What does it take 2 days to make?
very enjoyable. subscribing. :)
Try adding common malow it want be so thin .
Not sure why, but I always assumed that everything died in the winter and there was nothing out there left worth eating.
Luckily with our mild winters and precipitation lots of things stay green and even flourish during the chillier months.
@@koridevereaux I was the same
Love your channel. Wow. Go you! So inspiring.
Love the guinea pigs
So do we 😁
Wow que rico.
Can you eat other types of thistles besides Bull thistles?
Yes! All true thistles are edible to some degree
As a kid I would roast, (roasting brings more flavor), SMALL fish, frogs, rodents, birds, snakes, lizards and near anything that is otherwise not worth my time. I would then dry over the fire and grind them, bones intact, (being selective, omitting some bone), into a powder and use that as you do here.
P. S. I am 58 now and see that this is a real quick fix, I would not make a steady diet of ground bone. I think I'd regret it in the form of calcium stones in my organs
I always thought Queen Anne’s Lace was wild carrot. Is that a different type or it looks different in the winter?
@@jloubelleThey can certainly vary slightly depending where they grow. These in the video were young first year plants over wintering. You may recognize them better in the summer time when they go to flower. However, by then the taproot is too fibrous to eat.
That's a freaking enormous nut press!
Awesome content! Just found your YT channel. Any chance you’re selling more Pocket Guides? They’re sold out on Etsy 😢
Thank you :)
Unfortunately, I'm currently all out. Hoping to get another batch printed soon.
For a meal !!
I had over five feet of snow in January 😂
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