Delights of Garretstown, Near Kinsale, Co. Cork 28.03.2016
Saturday, April 9th, 2016
Foraging walk with Kevin of ‘Forage and Find’- mix of sea and land – here’s just a small flavour of what we saw. Kevin has lots more walks planned for the summer months.
Nori or Laver – essential in sushi
Channel Wrack – in the middle of photo – dark with channelled stem. Nice taste (most palatable of all wracks) – in our picnic salad. Also good in stir fries. Full of selenium and vitamin C.
Rock Samphire – pleasant hot and spicy taste
Sea lettuce – rich source of iron and almost always eaten raw. Eat as part of a seaweed salad.
Pepper Dulse – startling flavour! Mixture of pepper, salt and fishiness. Can use as substitute for black pepper
Carrageen – great for chesty coughs
Penny or Naval Wort – lovely and succulent in salads!
Bitter cress – member of the mustard family – very obviously!
Young stickleback – good in herbal remedies for its antiseptic effect
Sorrel – what an amazing flavour – a ‘bitter’ to stimulate appetite
Nettles ! Great to ‘purify the blood’ amongst lots of other benefits