Wild Leek & Potato Soup - Forest to Bowl | PIONEER | BUSHCRAFT | COOKING | SELF RELIANCE | FORAGE
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Peter forages for wild leeks. Using potatoes from the root cellar, he then makes a delicious soup over the open fire.
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Thankyou ever so kindly Peter 🤲😋🌱🥔🧄🥛💦🌲🔥🌞
Peter, another wee bit of History regarding wild onions and gold... In 1839, the Mexican Government granted to Antonio del Valle some 48,000 acres of The Santa Clarita Valley known as the Del Valle Rancho.
On March 9, 1842, Francisco Lopez y Arbello, the brother-in-law of Antonio del Valle, visited the Rancho. While napping under a great oak tree, he dreamt that he was surrounded by gold and was very rich. Upon awaking, he picked a bunch of wild onions that were growing around some sycamore trees just north of the great oak tree. Attached to the onion roots were several small pieces of gold.
This discovery by Francisco Lopez y Arbello marked the first recorded discovery of gold in California.
The great oak tree became known as “The Oak of the Golden Dream.”
What a fantastic story! Thanks for sharing it!
Awesome video, You did amazing work with your place, Root cellar was amazing!
In your kitchen mate, I am definitely the Onion King. Haha.That looks great
Thank you, That reminds me of the cooking my father would do when he would give mom a break 😊😊
Your most welcome and kudos to your father.
Twuz a 'tense moment' puttin' your 'Jenny' down. You don't want to miss something fowl (foul) coming your way because you took a 'leek'! Sounds a tad bit rude, but in your case, so true. I watched your hard 'gander' B 4 U parted with Jenny. Theodore Roosevelt said; "The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value." Both U Peter and your Catherine are the epitome of such a standard of living. WELL DONE! And darn, if I didn't have 2 watch a wonderfully made food video on a fasting day! Your hearty smile after a wee taste said it all = Dee-licious Health and God Bless! :)
Old Teddies quote is a grand one but, a pity we have not held up to that wonderful principle, as a race we have treated our precious resources very poorly. Sorry, I should have posted after your fast, lol. Have yourself a fine day Marie.
This made me hungry, 😄 thumbs up 👍
Healthy food from Nature's bounty.
Wow! What a wonderful way to make soup! Thanks for posting, best wishes from the UK. 🇬🇧
That best part, Paul is it is absolutely delicious.
That soup 🍲 looked awesome 👏 ill have to give it a try. Thanks for sharing .
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Hi from Syracuse NY USA brother and everyone else thank you for sharing different parts of history
One of my new favorite channels!
Thanks Chuck, certainly find your compliment flattering.
Wow I’ve dug Ramps all my life, I have some now in my freezer. I go back home to West Virginia every year to get them but have never herd of drying them I’ll have to try that. My favorite way is to fry them with bacon and them scramble eggs on them. This is awesome
That is a great idea. We do freeze them but, adding bacon takes it to a whole new level
Never seemed to find any leeks on my treks yet. Have found Field garlic and Mustard Garlic, oh some nice mushrooms also
Love the videos, Thank-you very much Peter. This was one of my favorites. Keep your powder dry
Thanks Lance and you watch that top knot of yours.
Nothing beats living off of the land.
So satisfying!
Thanks for the video.
Always good stuff here. Thanks!
Thank you.
Wollop of butter 😋
Very observant… one person’s dollop is another’s wallop!
AN IMPORTANT PSA. PLEAS READ THIS: Wild leeks look very similar to lilly of the valley, which contains dangerous cardio toxins. They also grow in similar manners. If you see a similar plant in large patches make sure that you know the difference between the two. A dead giveaway for LOTV is the presence of small white flowers. Do your research before attempting to consume wild edibles.
Thank you, I pulled up what I thought were weeds. The bottom looked like onions. I threw them away and a day or so later my trash can smelled like onions. I’d like to find out if they are safe to eat ; )
Firstly thanks for another great video Peter and Cathy ! I live in the uk and I was walking in the woods yesterday and spotted some of these plants (they tend to call them wild garlic in these parts) I never really gave them a second look before but after watching this I’m going to follow your recipe and make a lovely warming spring soup , absolutely love what you guys do please please carry on with the great work!
That is awesome, Chazie, your in for a treat.
Wild garlic are amazing but still a little early at this time so the problem is that you need to much at this time because there so small to make a good meal or salad or dip lol so many recipes
Great video Peter I love the foraging ones and hope to see more. It did make me cringe when you threw the potato peels away. It is the most nutricious part. I remember hearing survivor of the Matzo camp say that was part of what prisoners ate to keep alive.
My mother used to say the same thing, even carrots were left unpeeled. She used to say, n”no sense throwing out good food. In my case, I have more spuds in my root cellar then I’ll ever eat and also more than enough for seed potatoes that are going into the ground this week.
My Grampa John once told me that as long as you have vegetables & water, you'll never go hungry. Meat & spice are nice to have, but not necessary to make a soup.
Oh yeah. Hi Peter.. been a while.
Very true! When extra folk showed up at meal time more water and potatoes were added to what ever was on the stove. No one ever left my mother’s table hungry!
You are absolutely right about people overharvesting those areas, Peter. I used to find areas loaded with them in the spring gobbler woods. Most have few, if any, to locate today. Victims of close proximity to easy access. Leaks and morels...two fringe benefits of spring turkey hunting! That certainly does look like "a fine soup."
Thanks James and was indeed a grand soup. Pity that those that forage can’t use a wee bit of common sense.
Looks like amazing fare and as usual love the stories
Thanks Don.
i come to watch these videos to relax and learn something new and interesting. 👍
Thank you!
That Looks so tasty. I love the knife you chopped up with.
The cleaver is very old, most likely late1700’s or early 1800’s.
Mighty fine lookin viddles!
It was pretty darn tasty!
Another fine video with a wee bit a history and foraging and cooking! Gordon Ramsey has nothing on you sir! Well Peter I finally finished building my Fowler and plan to use it during the fall Turkey season here in Kentucky. I would love to see a video on how you make your Turkey calls.
I made one. It is in the “Tutorial” playlist, “How to make a wing bone turkey call”
Interesting tid bit on harvesting the leeks. I love when you smile and shake your head every time you take that first bite. Thank you Mr. Pete for another great episode! Stay well.
Ha ha. Thank you!
i could go for a bowl of that pete looked good
Hi, Peter! My wife still pokes fun at me when years ago. I went out mushroom foraging and came back with a satchel of leaks instead. Looks delicious great educational/ foraging video. Take care see ya on the next !👍
She might have been disappointed at no mushrooms but, I suspect she enjoyed those leeks.
Every year even when i manage to catch some morels I bring home a bag of leeks too.
Great episode. More detailed foraging stuff like that please. Maybe some mushrooms, pine nuts, anything and everything. Also, can you make simple cheese from your neighbours milk?
Thank you. One can easily make a soft cheese from unpasteurized milk.
Great video, thank you
Thank you.
Looks good. I'd like to try it. John from Ohio.
You should, simple and oh so tasty!
Come for the fabulous camera-work, stay for the stories !! And now we have another good meal to copy ! Thank you.
Thanks for the kind compliments.
By the way, nothing wrong with your soup making skills...looks delicious!
It was a wonderful soup indeed.
Those small leeks look alot like green onions and peel just like them too. Hope you have better luck getting your turkey!
Thanks!
Here in central Appalachia we call those wild leeks, Ramps. They are a part of of our spring rituals. The feast of the Rampson. Something looked forward to.
I am an old Appalachian hillbilly , now living in Texas but many of the old style living techniques you show are familiar to me Peter. Additionally, as an amateur historian I love your wee bits of history which Americans see so little of. I joined today and subscribed to your channel. I wish you and Cathy the very best sir and many more years of escaping to the woodlands.
Thank you!
So much of our time was working toward eating and staying warm. There was a penalty for being lazy or inept. Hard times but simple and maybe better times. Well if you survived all the other things that befell you. Perhaps a short video on medical practices from the frontier would be nice. Thanks
That is a wonderful suggestion Mark, we will put it on our list.
I've never had wild leek potatoe soup it must be delicious and very yummy I love the Pioneer life very interesting digging out in the ground out in the woods and forest hunting is fun certainly is a beautiful day to be out there awesome very cool Thanks for sharing this thanks
Thanks Chad. If you have leeks in your area you should give it a try … you’ll not be disappointed.
Thanks buddy I don't think I have leeks over here but if I do I'll definitely give it a try thanks sure will man
We have 25 acres in West Virginia and I've learned so much from your videos about pioneer living and I look forward to trying/implementing what I've learned. Too bad we don't have any spruce, cedar, or Birch! I'll have to research how they utilized the land here differently from how you demonstrate so well up north.
I love your state. I spent a lot of time down there in my youth rock climbing. Your absolutely right, if you study your resources, you’ll find how to best utilize them.
❤😊😊
Oh that looked so delicious. The peacefulness I get from harvesting and preparing cannot be duplicated in the modern world. You all are so blessed in so many ways. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!
Where I live, they are called ramps. The season is ending but I have some in my refrigerator right now that I will cook this evening in a favorite traditional dish - ramps, potatoes and eggs. Potatoes are fried, chopped ramps added towards the end, then served with fried eggs and bacon. I also have two jars in the refrigerator that have the brine remaining from pickles and I've stuffed them with the white part of the ramps. They'll be pickled and ready to eat in a couple of weeks. I also have a few drying. The community ramp supper was held last Saturday, which is a major homecoming event for my tiny hometown. I'm sure your soup made a delicious meal!
It was a fine soup indeed. We also do the potato, leek and egg meal. We soft fry the eggs and place top of the cooked potatoes and leeks, add a wee bit of salt and pepper, then break the yolks. My, this is making me hungry!
Appreciate your efforts and dedication! A successful outing indeed. May not have been a turkey, but it helped fill the belly. Mother nature has many things to offer and we should all be taking notes. Native people many times would pass the first available plants to leave them for the future generations and assure that the materials were not over harvested. This assures the longevity of both species. Thanks again and keep your powder dry!
Thank you, again!
That looks like a very good soup my friend. I'm envious. So far as I know we have no such plant here. What we do have is the little wild onion which appears at the end of February and has already toughened and gone to seed by April. It is very good in an omelet or mixed in scrambled eggs or wilted with watercress. It's something I look forward to every year and have enjoyed since my earliest childhood.
That soup looks delicious. I think it was, yes.
That soup looked amazing!!!!!! Nothing like spring wild leeks and morel mushrooms. I'm gonna have to give that soup a try. Excellent video as always.
Thank you!
I use to have something similar in KY growing all over my garden and areas of the acreage in the spring before I planted. It was always exciting to pick something wild growing and use in my kitchen. Just love these videos you are sharing. Thanks Peter!
If you were a tad closer, I’d have shared the soup with you.
Hey Peter! Knowledge of Nature's Bounty is Treasure! Best of luck getting that second turkey!
Thanks Martin. So far all the luck has been with the turkeys. Don’t mind if I do get a second, I just like getting out before the sunrise and watch the world waking up. The migrating song birds are amazing at first light.
@@TheWoodlandEscape Take comfort in the fact that the Turkeys have to be successful 100% of the time... while you have to be successful just once! So the odds are with you. It has been my experience that early morning is the best part of the day... full of beauty and promise; before all the hustle and bustle begins!
How timely! That soup goes on the menu this week, as ramps are bursting out of the ground here in Northern Michigan.
I've never had wild leek potato soup, it looks delicious.
The spring woods are delightful, and so is this video. Well done, sir.
It is lovely to see the world come out of hibernation . Thanks for your kind words.
Another fine video Peter. It’s 3:30 in the morning and you’ve made me hungry. Kids have been bugging me to make my potato soup….
You could surprise them, given the time and make them a pot for breakfast,lol.
This recipe 'uses every pot and pan in the house!' We finish ours with a bit of fresh dill leaf.
Never thought of dill but, I’ll be trying that in the next batch.
Peter
I had a chuckle watching you chop those potatoes with that huge cleaver! I also love leeks but I have to ask how you dry them since our climate has fairly high humidity and the sun is not strong and long lived this time of year.
Best Regards
You can tie the leaves in small bundles and hang them upside down, indoors.
Yup the wild turkeys are out and about in our area right up until hunting season than they disappear...
Here, as well. The deer know when hunting season is, too!
That made me hungry!! I have found that if you add two nice size jalapeño peppers to that potato soup, that it threw mine over the top. It just blends so well with potato soup. Preferably fresh, but dry will do also. What a wonderful day!
At my age Daniel, everyday is wonderful. My next soup just got a new ingredient,yours sounds delicious!
What enjoyment you give us in your programs. Thanks (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
Always such positive feedback from you and it certainly appreciated.
Looks great. I love potato leek soup. Just harvested leeks from my garden and the potatoes will be soon also.
One of my favorites as well,Charlene.
Informative video and sharpens my appetite. My parents used to gather these, as well as mushrooms when I was a kid. I've forgotten so much about it, that I'd be afraid to poison myself if I were to make a mistake out of ignorance. Thanks for the video.
One does have to be careful, especially with mushrooms!
I enjoy your videos so much. They're calming and informative. I have nick-name for you: Olden Timey Pete. Hope that's okay with you
Very OK!
Hated ya throwing the peelings away. Fry them up good in butter or bacon drippings... better than chips in a bag and most of the nutrients from spuds is in the peel... just an old man's rambling. great episode.
Great advice!!
Potato soup is my favourite and cooking outside is very delicious I look cooking outside thank you for this video PS wondering would you help me make a right style corn broom for the time
Sounds like fun!
Hi Peter,
That’s a first, I’ve never seen Leeks growing wild in the UK! We grow the cultivated version from seed and plant them out in the Spring, harvesting them in late summer / early Autumn when they are an inch or so in diameter. How big will your wild Leeks grow if left?
Best wishes,
Mark
Only about the size of a fingernail.
Peter, another good one. I really enjoy your work. Thanks
Thanks David for the encouraging feedback.
Video is great, always a pleasure to watch, have a great day
Thanks Tammy and a fine day to you as well!
Thank you for your video. Here in Ukraine wild leek is called cheremshA or bear`s leek and it is actually forbidden to gather it in the wild because of reasons that you have mentioned.
Not enough people forage here ….. yet. But, I suspect it is coming.
BTW, has anyone else noticed that there seems to be a direct connection in Peters brain between his jaw and his neck: whenever he is chewing something, his head begins to bob up and down!
Only if it tastes good, lol.
That soup looked really good 🙂 do you deliver?
Carrot soup next?
We’re out of carrots. We plan to plant extra this year!
Peter! Please do use your cutting side of your blade to do your scraping food from your chopping block! My experience shows it dulls the blade, thus requiring more frequent sharping. Sorry if I sound like your mama but dang son, think before you dull your blade.
Sound advice. However, frequent sharpening keeps my sharpening skills sharp, lol!
Looks yummy! But you really could have done the whole process in one pot!
You're right!
I must say you’re super rude like it was very tasty. Thank you for another fine video.
* I must say your supper looks like it was mighty tasty.
Jeg elsker at du fortæller historier til hvad du laver. Hilsen fra Danmark
That looked bloody darn good old friend.did you whittle the wooden spoon. Great size.
I do whittle spoons but, a friend carved that one for us. Btw, it was bloody good!
Bacon, butter and milk!! The soup has to be good.
Right! Actually building one today to take to the deer hunting camp.
Oh this sounds so good! Really enjoy your channel thanks! 🙏❤️👍
It was fine soup indeed.
Always thought the pond was deeper than that
We are thinking of trying to raise the overflow, a few shovelfuls at a time.
I'm sorry , I wasn't concentrating , not paying attention , but what meat would you put (cook ) with leaks and potatoes . They ( leaks ) are a big thing right now wear I'm from ( well sort of / on the other side of the tracks ) I love anything , onion , I use to eat them raw when I was a young child . ( Onions ) but now that I'm older I prefer scunions or chives , with my meal . Oh and thank you , another great video !!
Thanks Walt. I fryed up some salt pork and the soup was darn tasty, if I do say so myself.
@@TheWoodlandEscape thank you
Never had it but it sure looks great. What kind of tool was you digging the leeks with. I live in south of Ky do they grow around here or up Northern area.
I believe John, that the natural range for wild leeks would include Kentucky. The tool is one used for debarking trees.
Im also in ky. We do have them here. We also call them ramps
So... what do you do to ward off the blackflies?? No Sawyers, no DEET, no OFF. Rancid bear grease?? What did they do in 1750s?
Smoke bathing was one method. Place green limbs from the juniper plant or cedar if you don’t have juniper and wave your clothing, hat etc. over the smoke. Apparently it gives of a tannin that bugs don’t like. Black fly season is short, usually 2 to 3 weeks but, the deer fly season lasts FOREVER!
Looks good. I looked for the recipe, did not see it.
Did you use flour or similar for thickener? Looked like bacon?
It is delicious Linda and yes, I added a wee bit of flour to thicken the soup.
Yet another great video! Wild leeks are one of my favourites. Something weird has been happening on your channel where the video count is going down. I swear that last time I checked there were 89 and now there are 86. Do you have any idea why?
We do seem to losing interest in our channel. Having said that we sure appreciate your support, Aden.
Peter, just an observation:
Not sure what date you recorded the video on Leek harvesting, but as of today (May 7th), the black flies are out in force in Apsley!! Dang it!!
Every year I encounter them I think of this song:
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Cheers!
Cathy’s father used to work in Northern Ontario and he used to sing that song!
Peter, what is your turkey load in your fowler?
80 g of FFFg, 1 5/8 ounce of #5 shot. I use paper wasp nest material or linen tow for an over powder cushion wad and another ball of that for an over shot wad. Also, adding cornmeal to the shot load works as a buffer material and gives a tighter pattern.
What period does a flintlock mountain rifle fit into?
The Mountain Man era is arguably from 1820 to 1840. The percussion action was invented around 1821, so many of the muskets were percussion but, given the cost of replacing ones flintlock many were still in use at the end of that era. The Hawken 50 caliber percussion was with out doubt the most sought after firearm of the time.
Neat recipe I'm going to have to try that do you have any recipes for turnips I really like turnips and I really really like what you guys are doing keep keep going guys God blesses
We don’t do anything special with turnips, but will keep our ears to the ground for new recipes.
Do you know how to find good mushrooms to eat?
I must say, only a few. Something I really want to learn but, not from a book.
OK PETER WHAT IS THE OTHER INGREDANCES.
Milk , bacon , salt and pepper
SORRY IT'S ME SOUND KEN
Around me all I see are Lilly and Trillium popping up the forest floor, pretty but not so tasty….
Everett Crockett
is there any way to donate to your Woodland Escape channel? I can't find a donation or Patreon link and feel guilty getting the benefit of your history lessons without paying my fair share.
Thank you so much for your support, Everett. You’ll never find such a donation link because we are doing this for our passion in history, not to make money. So, benefit away. It was our oldest son that was the impetus to us starting the Chanel. He said “ you should film some of the crazy historical stuff you do, people will watch it”. Appears he was right. We do make some money from UA-cam.
My wife and I watch for your episodes every week and wouldn't miss one for the world. Keep 'em coming Peter!
That’s flattering Everett, thanks to both you and your wife for the ongoing support.
While I appreciate what you were doing with the leeks, you should keep your rifle, powder and shot near.
Very observant. It is never to far from reach.
@@TheWoodlandEscape That's reassuring. Don't want to see your videos come to an end.
Too funny!