Rock Samphire

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One of the few wild greens you can harvest in the winter.

Grows on the coast on cliffs and walls.

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Fleshy leaves with a pungent aniseed flavour, bit strong on it's own.

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Cooked some up on Mackerel fillets .

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Covered up so it lightly steamed and adds flavour to the fish.

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Didn't cook quite as well as I'd like as the wind was taking the heat away from the pan, but went very well with the oily fish :)

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It looks very appetizing! (y)
You caught the Mackerel yourself?
No, not with the storm raging, bringing up the dead souls long lost to the sea :eek:

Tomorrow morning I go to the beach to find the remains...
 
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I have a fragment of an ancient amphora, which the sea threw out after a storm. I do not know where it threw gold. :sneaky:
 

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I have a fragment of an ancient amphora, which the sea threw out after a storm. I do not know where it threw gold. :sneaky:

I have bronze rivets from an ancient shipwreck and a little coca cola bottle found with my metal detector :)

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Yummy :D

That's about a fivers worth of Samphire for a city dweller like me :LOL:.

Does that grow all year round? I seem to recall that marsh samphire only has a short season.
 

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