River Cottage
River Cottage: Winter's on the Way
November 12, 2009
5Episodes
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall returns to River Cottage to harvest the best seasonal food that the cooler months have to offer. River Cottage: Winter’s On The Way follows Hugh as he cooks and tastes his way through the abundant crops on offer and provides the definitive guide to locally produced, seasonal food. Hugh raids River Cottage’s kitchen garden to show viewers they can enjoy a slice of any season, River Cottage style, wherever they live, with tantalising recipes. Leaving no seasonal favourite behind River Cottage - Winter’s On The Way celebrates the season’s best and freshest, whether from the wild, the garden or the shop shelf.
Episodes
1. Mushrooms and Pears
November 12, 2009
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall returns to celebrate the selection of fare available over the autumn and winter seasons. After travelling to Gloucestershire for expert advice on making pear cider, he undergoes a crash course in free diving and takes to the open sea to find scallops. He also joins foraging guru John Wright to hunt for mushrooms in the woods, visits a mass tree planting day in the Peak District and uses the offal from his two-year-old steer to make a hearty stew.
2. Rabbits and Wine
November 19, 2009
Hugh deals with a rabbit invasion in his garden by bringing in two warreners, and takes his children to Devon to look for wild mussels with French teacher Nathalie Arnold and her family. He receives help from his local Women's Institute to get rabbits back on the British menu.
3. Chillis and Pumpkins
November 26, 2009
Hugh prepares a chilli and pumpkin party for 200 people. He joins Gill Mellow and Tim Maddams to resurrect a childhood favourite of crispy pancakes using smoked pollack, bacon, cheese and sweetcorn. He travels to Cornwall to meet fishermen who have found a sustainable and lucrative market in catching squid, and visits members of a community who are determined to grow and rear their own Christmas dinners.
4. Getting Ready for Christmas
December 3, 2009
Hugh begins his preparations for Christmas, making chocolate brownies to give as gifts and using his slaughtered steer to create canapes of biltong and pastrami for a party. He heads to an Exeter nightclub to continue his mission to get wild rabbits back onto the British menu, hunts for the blewitt mushroom, and tries to catch herring for the first time.
