Championship Smoothie!

 

Birch sap, Bilberries (Vaccinium myrtillus), Wild Strawberries (Fragaria vesca), Chokeberries (Aronia mitschurinii), soaked Swiss Pine seeds (Pinus sembra), honey,  European Spruce tips (Picea abies) and Pine pollen (Pollen pini).

This was the smoothie I did for the Finnish Smoothie Championships. It was the only smoothie made out of completely wild and local ingredients and I have to say it tasted sooooo good. :)

The competition was hard, but I won the second prize! Congratulations for Nima Ehsani for the bronze and of course the amazing winner, Hanna Jormanainen!

Fish & Chips Wildstyle!

I have to say I really loooove outdoor cooking. A few weeks ago we shot a pilot episode for a lifestyle TV-series that will hopefully be shot next summer! Among other cool stuff, we shot a cooking video where I cooked a wild and Nordic version of the popular British take-away food, fish and chips!

The roots I used in these foods are all highly medicinal and have a very strong taste when raw, but cooking them in oil or butter removes most of the bitterness(and the medicinal value too, I guess).

This dish looked so yummy it was half eaten before we remembered to take a photo! :) 

Boiled Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) holding a grilled Vendace (Coregonus albula) on top of Angelica (Angelica archangelica) fries, fried nettle-tops, soaked Bladderwreck (Fucus vesiculosus), some Common Chickweed (Stellaria media) and some Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).

Here's another fish & chips set with some fried Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras) and fries made from Dandelion roots (Taraxacum officinale) and Golden Root (Rhodiola rosea) together with Yarrow leaves (Achillea millefolium), Ground Elder leaves (Aegopodium podagraria) and Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).