Living off the land 100%

[Stanley Edwards]

it'd be a damn sight more interesting if you were doing what yo said you were going to do.

Yes Pickman's. I am actually harvesting and foraging the majority of what I am eating. Stuff comes for free - I gratefully accept it. The guy who gave me the business card for a meal did so, because he wanted me to experience his idea of the 'real' Portugal. It would have been downright insulting not to accept.

As I have said already; today I am eating from the sea. Or, at least that is my plan.

 

[bimble]

No. I was replying to a pàthetic, derogatory comment intended as an insult towards me.

Pretty sure you know how that works. You, and the others with nothing better to do than sling mud are spoiling what could be a very interesting thread.

Eh? No doubt the villagers were overjoyed to see you stumbling in from the woods looking for a place to kip, families vying with eachother for the honour of hosting you in their homes. My mistake.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Most shellfish that you can get your hands on easily at this time off the year will have a 50% death risk.natures little sewerage filters. If there are any mussels to be seen, on poles or ropes, then there is a 50% death risk rom the local who will not take kindly to anyone foraging his hard won food. Razor clams are disgusting and use more energy to get out than they provide. Shellfish has a risk factor like mushrooms for the inexperienced forager living in ditches. fill your boots stan.

Weevers are the answer. you don't even need a rod, just go plodging around in the shallow warm water and they will stick to your feet. combine them with live sea urchins for and exciting al fresco sunset supper. Ideal with some matured bottles of lorry driver kidney cider foraged from service station bins

 

[Pickman's model]

I am actually harvesting and foraging the majority of what I am eating.

I am going to try living off the land 100% for food as I travel

 

[Corax]

He doesn't like Stanley. So he must remain on the thread reminding everyone.

Do fuck off with your attempt to stretch out the beef, there's a love.

 

[Corax]

He's hanging himself though...saying he pulled off frogs legs....and then romanticising the echoes of night sounds including the frogs .... who are no doubt calling for their legless friends to.return.

To be fair, I read that unpleasant little description as him taking the piss out of his own villainisation.

But I guess that's the whole problem - distinguishing the disturbingly sociopathic behaviour from the pure fabrication.

 

[mrs quoad]

I like this. I quite fancy myself

Could've ended the sentence there, tbh, Stan.

Edit: dammit. Too obvious a feeder line, friedaweed.

 

[mrs quoad]

Ah here now ....I thought you'd be making your own fishing gear from the chewed up tendons of the frogs you de-legged.

Stan has teeth?

 

[not-bono-ever]

"The Iberian Peninsula is a stronghold of the Griffon Vulture and Portugal can boast that it's as easy to see this species here as anywhere else in the world. We quite often find kettles of them anywhere between 20 and 200 strong when we're out on the Plains of the Alentejo. Seeing them warming their wings in the early morning sun prior to taking to the skies is a never-to-be-forgotten-sight, but it requires an early start and a good guide if you're to stand the chance of witnessing it."

Lucky Portugal. Another vulture has been spotted- - The rarely washed " Stanus Edwardus" - feeds on carrion and other peoples hard work. Now persectuted to near extinction

 

[not-bono-ever]

anyway Stan. you need to set your non existent compass and imaginary map to Albuifera - Sir Cliffs gaff of horrors is for sale

Cliff Richard slashes the price of his Portuguese mansion in bid for quick sale

You can do some odd jobs for him in exchange for board and lodgings - and free Vino from his winery

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Most shellfish that you can get your hands on easily at this time off the year will have a 50% death risk.natures little sewerage filters. If there are any mussels to be seen, on poles or ropes, then there is a 50% death risk rom the local who will not take kindly to anyone foraging his hard won food. Razor clams are disgusting and use more energy to get out than they provide. Shellfish has a risk factor like mushrooms for the inexperienced forager living in ditches. fill your boots stan.

Weevers are the answer. you don't even need a rod, just go plodging around in the shallow warm water and they will stick to your feet. combine them with live sea urchins for and exciting al fresco sunset supper. Ideal with some matured bottles of lorry driver kidney cider foraged from service station bins

He might pick up a few periwinkles.....and seaweed.
That'd be foraging for real.

Stanley if you pass any book shops it might be an idea to forage this book...

 

[Pickman's model]

He might pick up a few periwinkles.....and seaweed.
That'd be foraging for real.

Stanley if you pass any book shops it might be an idea to forage this book...
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[friedaweed]

I gave my fishing rod away before I had even used it. Time to buy a new one. Decathlon do a cheap starter rod with accessories for less than €20. May give that a try. Worth the cash?

PESCA - CANAS PESCASENSEATIP TELESCO

That would do you. Then either a set of feathers or a toby lure around the 30gm mark. I had quite a bit of luck around Galicia at this time of year on mackeral gear.

Tight lines stan

 

[cupid_stunt]

 

[cupid_stunt]

One day there will be a book about Stanley going fishing.

Spoiler: Oh, hang on...

 

[friedaweed]

One day there will be a book about Stanley going fishing.

Spoiler: Oh, hang on...

And a TV series

 

[friedaweed]

You could also try magnet fishing Stan...

 

[Pickman's model]

You could also try magnet fishing Stan...

yeh but i doubt he'd stick to it

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Do fuck off with your attempt to stretch out the beef, there's a love.

Don't stretch out our beef by pointing out you stretching out your beef?

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Crabs But, no seaweed



No seaweed, but I harvested beetroot. Chopped the leaves off initially, then decided to Google to see if I can eat them.

This will be the last of my gas, so I need to find a new canister before I hike onwards.

I am going to fry garlic and chilies in olive oil. Chop the beetroot and fry a little before adding water, lime juice and all the lovely, fresh picked coriander (it is very popular here - used in almost everything). Then drop the crabs into the pot and leave to simmer gently until the gas runs out.

I am becoming very aware that I am lacking in carbohydrates. My skin is drying to fuck! I may allow myself to buy a bag of pasta to add to these 'all in One pot' meals. Or, I could try making some sort of simple pasta myself?

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Figueira da Foz is very much a working class type of resort. Nothing romantic to sketch here. I am going to try a funky, contemporary promenade scene, but will almost certainly rely on humour to make any money.

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Picked up my first hiking injury. The pavements here are all cobbled. This has been the case since Porto. Looks like limestone to me. Not a very hard rock. They ware and polish easily. The pavements are rarely level/flat. Undulations in all the wrong directions. Not even my Adidas Court Stars could save me. Carrying a heavy backpack, I slipped, put my arm out to break the fall, and caught a post gashing my right wrist. Doesn't need treatment - just washed and sprayed with mild antiseptic, but it looks very unsightly with my peeling, sunburned forearms. Presentation matters!

Off to cook on the beach soon. The town is surrounded by a beautiful, very lush forest. If I make €20, I will almost certainly go a foraging and camping there. Lots of birds of prey. Very big buzzard sort of things.

 

[Pickman's model]

Figueira da Foz is very much a working class type of resort. Nothing romantic to sketch here. I am going to try a funky, contemporary promenade scene, but will almost certainly rely on humour to make any money.

you'll be penniless come nightfall then

 

[mrs quoad]

Amazingly clean beetroot if they're actually harvested as in harvested, Stan.

They could almost be shop bought foraged!

 

[not-bono-ever]

Oh good. Boiled crab. pay attention to the dead mans fingers. there is a chance of some real delights in them at this time of year, especially if there are dead and you fished them out of an oddly tepid and otherwise lifeless rock pool near a village. nom nom nom.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

you'll be penniless come nightfall then

Ha!

A few years ago I was in Sitges when I met a guy from Hungary who made a lot of money building sand sculptures. He spent most of his working life as a fisherman in Devon. He taught me a very valuable lesson. "Your dropping box is 100x more important than your art, your show, your wares". Before he even started working with sand, he would spend over an hour decorating his collection box. Coins just fell in regardless.

I will use Two boxes. One will have the words (in English, Spanish and Portuguese) 'paints and brushes please' on One box, and the words 'beer and pizza please' on the other box.

Beer and pizza box will collect about 10x more in coins, or even notes. I don't expect to sell the sketch, but will take a shitty pic and post here.

Simple humour is all you need.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I know this a thread for totally deserved and utterly merciless piss taking, but you have have to fucking sort this out stan - you cannot just eat shit you find in the sea. it is reckless, foolish stupidity

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Amazingly clean beetroot if they're actually harvested as in harvested, Stan.

They could almost be shop bought foraged!

I washed them in the sea.

*cough, cough*.

Erm... the weather is quite nice.

There was this market full of local produce. I felt duty bound to spend some pennies.

 

[Pickman's model]

I felt duty bound to spend some pennies.

yeh, you've been pissing on the unfortunate portuguese through your thievery and that

 

[not-bono-ever]

you may want to boil them crabs separately unless you fancy a beet brine. there is a reason why people have a crab pot separate from the rest of the meal.

fucking hell. How did you get to 50?

 

[not-bono-ever]

No more advice. I have done my bit. I can sleep easy now. w00t

 

[Stanley Edwards]

yeh, you've been pissing on the unfortunate portuguese through your thievery and that

There are plenty of stinking rich farmers here. They are less likely to let me harvest than the really friendly keepers of small allotments. Very genuine, honest, empathetic people here. A couple of onions from a shop is going to cost about 10 Cents. Harvesting from the land has sod all to do with saving money, or thieving. It is just a very rewarding thing to do.

Everything you pick, harvest, forage starts to lose flavour and vitamin, or nourishing properties from the very second you collect it. Get it in the pot as soon as. It is full of better flavour and all the goodness from the land.