Welcome to Skovkær! This is your gateway to the world of wild food and foraging. Here, you’ll find a variety of delicious recipes made with wild ingredients, along with blog posts full of inspiration, tips, and practical advice to help you get started on your own foraging journey. At the top of the page, you’ll find links to our seasonal wild recipes. You can also dive into the blog to discover more about edible plants, foraging techniques, and creative ways to cook with nature’s pantry.

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Ground Elder Season Ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) is a perennial plant that typically emerges in spring and early summer. The young leaves are the most delicious and flavorful and should be harvested before the plant flowers. The best time to forage for the leaves is in April and May. Where to Find it Ground elder
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Rose hips are the fruits of the rose flower plant. Rose hips replace the fallen flowers when the temperatures lower. Rose hips are edible and are shaped round or oval. The color of rose hips is normally bright red to orange – the darker the red the riper.

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Chicken of the woods schnitzel is a battered, vegetarian version of the traditional schnitzel that most of us know. The chicken of the woods mushroom is first covered in flour, then dipped in eggs, and finally covered in a bread crumb/spice mix and deep fried in oil. Chicken of the woods is known as a
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Wild garlic mayonnaise is a super tasty way of using wild garlic. This wild garlic mayonnaise is great as a spread in a sandwich, with fried fish, as french fries dipping sauce, or how else you would eat mayonnaise.

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This wild garlic barbecue marinade consists of wild garlic leaves, olive oil, herbs, chili, lemon juice and salt and pepper. It is perfect as a marinade for meat, chicken, vegetables, or fish either cooked in the oven or grilled on the barbecue.

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Bread & Cakes
If you are looking for a tasty recipe for your foraged ground elder leaves, you have come to the right place. This delicious ground elder bun recipe contains lots of ground elder, oatmeal, and all-purpose flour. Ground elder is a delicious plant that can be eaten raw in a salad or briefly cooked. In this
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