Ray Mears - My Fake Diary

Saturday, 10 January 2009

Lots of people writing in and asking for me venison and wild leaf salad meal recipe, so here goes, and remember this really will serve a cave-full of guests.

Prep time : Allow several hours to hunt the deer and shoot with a bow and arrow or ensnare with a trap, then skin and gut it.

Couple of hours more to forage for leaves. Get yer guests to gather firewood and wash the leaves in a stream.

Ingredients:

Haunch of venison

1 handful of badger fat

Dozen wild mushrooms

Small handful of juniper berries, crushed

2 gobfulls of chewed thyme

1 puffball-unripe

For the salad :

Several handfuls of lamb's clinkers

1 handful of watercress

2 armfulls of stinging nettles with a dash of Ouch!

For the dressing: Normally I just piss on it.