 first things first let's just get that out this out the way okay joey exotic one of joey exotics ex-boyfriend that's the look I'm going for joey exotics ex-boyfriend one of how's everyone doing you're right I'll firstly apologize if there's kids screaming and all this sort of stuff it weren't garden as you can tell so do apologize if there's any wacky noises but that's quarantine life we just get on with it thought I'd do a little bit more on on foraging because I think it's at this time with in the current climate I think it's a great thing to do on your daily walk at this time of year you can pick up you can get a slack handful of salad leaves and bits and pieces and just cook them up and you know it it it's not gonna feed you or feed you and your family fully I'm aware of that but it's good it's a it's a nice little thing to do with your family or on your own and and it adds to your to your weekly food bill because it's it you know you don't have to buy your salads or whatever and it's it's healthy and it helps us a little bit disconnect with these big supermarket teats that we're all so dependent on you know it's nice to step away from that and just get hands on with what's real with the real food and how how it's acquired and and it's on our doorstep so I'm just gonna show you a little bit of what I've been foraging and we're gonna cook some stuff up so I went for a little walk along the coast and picked up some velvet crabs a little look around the rock pools I found a couple of lobsters but they're all way too small I brought my tape measure out just to double check everything but they're all they're all way too small I did get three velvet and one of which is quite a stonker you see and because I'm living on my own and I'm just looking after myself three velvet crabs I add plan to have a little fire down here and what not but what I'm gonna do because I've only got three and I want to book them out we're gonna take these back home and I'll show you away how to how to span them out because there isn't a great deal of me there's meat in the claws there's meat in the body you've got nowhere to look but we'll I'll make the most of these free and I'll show you how I do it back in garden let's fast track it here we have them I've popped a mint freezer for a humane dispatch what I want to show you is just how you can span that out so you would get these three crabs and you think well there's not really a meal there but all we need is a you need a potato maybe an egg to help bind it and we can make some delicious crab cakes and I'm gonna show you how to do that now see if we can do a one-stick fire right there's nice and gentle what you want to do is get quite thick bits at the end and then getting thinner as you go down and then I like to flatten it off so I've got somewhere to put me fire steel and in the back of the knife providing you've got a 90 degree angle on it get some really nice fine stuff there there you go I love that smell mate love that smell now we are just be patient it'll all catch that's all we need we're just making a latte tea stretch I'm gonna put some wild garlic chop that up put it in with the potatoes but I just went on my walk this morning and within the space of about 10 minutes I've collected I've collected enough stuff to have a decent salad it's just a bit of common land near where I live as you can see there's like industrial estate there I said that I didn't get out back though probably got headphones in any hey oh there's his wolf look so the idea is that your little walk and you can you can I mean I'm not saying that you can feed yourself but you can certainly take a bit of the stress off you could you could certainly get enough for a decent salad and not have to worry about spending money at the shop or just bulking out what you already have everything's all mixed in together so I'll have to wait for you just to let you have a little look at some stuff so where's that primrose right this is primrose just before I go into this if you're if you're not sure if you're not 100% sure don't pick it right and something that's similar to primrose that I'm sure you've seen everywhere it's quite popular this is cow slip and it has similar leaves to the primrose it's the same family edible we've got some this is jacked by the hedge lovely garlicky mustard flavor might actually in fact I will put a bit of this in as well into me into me crab cake what else did I get got some dandelion leaves you'll know that from such plant heads as that this is beach just the new shoots of a beach leaf coming through nice and salads and I got some common some common sorrel don't taste anything like wood sorrel plenty of stuff that's just for me 10 minutes looking about that's just pretty easy to do and I'm going to knock that open to a nice salad make a little vinaigrette for it or something and and just have that with my crab cake some pepper there's your tatie coarsely mashed I'll show you how to deal with one of these alright this big male lad here you can tell because they've all got this bit here is thinner if it's a female that's bits a lot wider so this is a decent sized male they may be getting a little bit bigger than that but that's that's this is quite a big one so and you've got to be careful mate because they've got these I don't know if you can see here I'm a plated and they're so vicious mate like the begbee of the rock pools these lads they just go for you straight away very fast very aggressive pull the claw like that you can take this bit out with the cartilage and clear that off with with face we'll have meat in here in these different sections so the old blade and I loaded it and you can see there all the meat in the claw there so I'm gonna pick at that and get both claws off that's one side I'll pick at that I'll show you what we do with this there's not there's nothing really in these legs so you could have a little go at these thigh bits and get some bits out but you cut it in half and you get loads of meat all in and around here and then this brown meat here all can go in so I'm gonna do all three of them and put it in with my mash got all the meat out and that's gone in with the potato and I'm gonna put some this is wild garlic that I picked the other day this is just off my walk today bit of jack by the hedge which is a nice similar to the wild garlic but it's got more of a mustardy flavor to it a few of them leaves about that many you'll do and chop these up and that would bind everything together so normally I would mold that into like a cake and then flour it maybe egg it breadcrumbs you can make your own breadcrumbs seasoning and just some old crust of bread or whatever stale bread but I don't have any of that so I'm just whacking it in like that into a pan with these you just simply wash them and then normally mix this in its own thing but we're roughing it out we saw a little bit of extra virgin olive oil a little bit of balsamic and a bit of salt and pepper a wallah right if you've just tuned in no this isn't the Tiger King 2 and no I'm not one of Joey keep calling Joey I'm not one of Joey tribbiani's ex-boyfriend my face out at reed this is a beach beach shoot primrose this it looks like a nettle but it's not it's a dead nettle what's thing you're focussing issue in there edible oh there's the flowers while garlic but that's gone in our in our huge crab patty and the garlic and the mustard from the jack by the hedge and you can still taste the sweetness of the velvet crab perfect so they definitely didn't die in vain that was we made the most out of them and as I said before it's nice to be able to just connect with what you're eating a little bit I'm not saying go out and be a complete swamp donkey and just live out off land just tip the balance a little bit in favor of maybe getting these instead of a bag of salad from your supermarket anyway look at this can you read that northern monk citrus zest sea salt goose it's called tidal so it couldn't be better and I've not been drinking have laid because I didn't want to be in isolation and become a absolute wizard but another monk sent me sent me a care package of delightful beers and this is the first one I've had because I thought why not if you're going to eat a lovely foraged meal check in with you lovely humans I might as well blow the dust off one of these bad boys absent friends that's refreshing oh it's sour that is that goes perfectly with this because I tell you what I would have done if I hadn't had a squirted a little bit of lemon over this but I was tempted to use a little bit of washing up liquid over it but I bottled it if anyone from Northern Monks watching thank you not for like well yeah for the beers and but for the thought the thought is a really nice thought so thank you for that and I'll do my best not to become an absolute fat Alki but thank you very much for that and if anyone else is stuck for if you're of age and you stuck for that this sort of thing Northern Monk webshop get them delivered some fine ales treat yourself oh burning machines I fancy staying out for the night not gonna camp but I think we'll stay till it gets dark and beyond right you don't be watching me shovel this into me pie old here thanks for watching I hope you're all keeping well in these crazy times just use it just slow everything down mate don't panic don't panic about it because it's in that things are happening out there that's out of things that are out of our control but what is in that in our control is how we take each day and so for me I'm just slowing everything down to this pace and it's working staying off the booze that ain't your friend in lockdown too much I know it relieves boredom but in the long one isn't your mate yeah I've won every now and again like yeah keep exercise eat well that's all I can say mate look after your noggin for when we get out of this because we could we could get out of this and be a better be better for it I reckon it's put everything in perspective but as for me anyway and that's a lovely gift to have I think I'm not gonna stand up even I'm enjoying this so much love to you I'm fed to black I need you I can make love you bye