· James Torr · Personal  · 1 min read

Don't forget, if you can't find food at a supermarket or your local shop, you can still go for a walk and grab something from the local fields or shoreline without getting in close proximity of other folks. Today we picked a huge bag of nettles, sea beet (sub in any spinach recipe) and some limpets (!). Apparently the limpets aren't super tasty and a bit tough, so I've parboiled for 5 mins, food processed to small pieces/paste and added them to some mushroom, bacon and wild garlic pesto with a bit of oregano and thyme. Will put them into puff pastry parcels tomorrow.

Don't forget, if you can't find food at a supermarket or your local shop, you can still go for a walk and grab something from the local fields or shoreline without getting in close proximity of other folks.

Don’t forget, if you can’t find food at a supermarket or your local shop, you can still go for a walk and grab something from the local fields or shoreline without getting in close proximity of other folks. Today we picked a huge bag of nettles, sea beet (sub in any spinach recipe) and some limpets (!). Apparently the limpets aren’t super tasty and a bit tough, so I’ve parboiled for 5 mins, food processed to small pieces/paste and added them to some mushroom, bacon and wild garlic pesto with a bit of oregano and thyme. Will put them into puff pastry parcels tomorrow.

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