Epping Forest: "Rosti Aux Legumes" and a Couple of Iron Age Hillforts

[@infoscholar5221]

i feel blessed to live on the Tennessee/Alabama line. I can walk thirty minutes and be in more remote country than Tweedy from any busy road/highway. But Britain still has some amazing vistas. and Tweedy is an old soul, and thanks for bringing those vistas to us.

[@AdeptHavelock]

12:58 The anticipation of a rosti covered lightly in autumnal leaf fall is killing me 😂

[@liamkatt6434]

Thank you for another very entertaining video and delicious cuisine. As a child in the 1960s, I read news article after news article about the decline of British and worldwide forests and figured that by the time that I was an old man, none would exist. I researched all the forests of note still remaining in the UK and Epping forest was high on the list. I wondered how long it would last given its proximity to London. How pleasant to see it still and also, very pleasant to be an old man in Canada with my own acres of forest and surrounded by another fifty square miles of forest and that just a drop in the ocean of the rest of the place.

[@matthew_whitfield]

these videos are my happy place

[@kaliwood3918]

Tweedy, you should do a trip to "Screaming Woods" (Dering Woods) for Halloween! It is between Smarden and Pluckley. I am in Hawaii and enjoy your adventures. My husband and I were in Great Britain a year ago. We'll probably be back next year.

[@dr62220]

Thanks Tweet love vegan approach. Buy a spud, onions maybe a couple mushrooms and you have a meal.

[@elvis197797]

Brilliant video as ever tweedy. Love Epping. I really enjoy watching u cook outside and seeing the different locations 😎👌👌

[@WalksInCamera]

Love the Beech trees in Epping Forest. What a lovely place to walk. Nice food choice too!

[@JustcallmeKathi]

What a delightful walk! Incidentally I know the southern part of the Black Forest, which borders Switzerland, a bit because one of my brothers spends a lot of time there. Beautiful Epping Forest is very different from the Schwarzwald though. The forest areas (Schwarzwald is actually a low mountain range) mainly consist of spruce and fir trees. Apparently, the Romans (again!) coined the name "silva nigra" because the forest looked rather dark and dense. The Hochschwarzwald has quite steep hills with a couple of lovely lakes in the valleys. - I think of Röschti (rø:shti) as a quintessentially Swiss dish, but there are of course a lot of similarities in the Swiss/German border region, for example the Alemannic dialect. The hard working farmers on their remote Schwarzwaldhöfe most likely ate something akin to Röschti. There appears to be a number of different recipes, and according to Wiki, the Swiss of Bern and Zurich quarrel about whether it should be made from raw or precooked potatoes. I think Swiss supermarkets have better convenience food versions of Röschti, but you created a healthy interpretation with the added vegetables!

[@nealadsett8484]

Started by following your “Pubs” channel and now equally addicted to “outdoors”. Can I recommend the town of my birth for an outdoors episode, Petworth in West Sussex. Petworth park is stunningly beautiful! You cant camp in the park but Petworth is surrounded by places that would be perfect for that. There’s buses from Pulborough station and possibly still from Petersfield and haslemere? The “sheep downs” and shimmings valley would be a lovely episode. All overlooked by the Southdowns .

[@ExploreWithBlu]

I do love Petworth park! I grew up near there so was always a short drive away!

[@alistairh202]

It's Tweedy time

[@philcollinson328]

A wonderful vid. I had a good laugh at the idea the 3 people lost behind you probably said to each other '' Let's follow the guy in the Tweed suit as it seems he knows where he's going''. At the same time you're talking to camera about being a bit lost.

[@Chilternwildcamper]

When you said "I was hoping for abit more fungal action!" 😂. Classic.

[@nealadsett8484]

@@Chilternwildcamper lol I am sure most people’s preference is a bit less fungal action! 🤣

[@tamasmogyorosi]

In my opinion the most precise term for this plate is A Thing. Nevertheless it could feel damned good midst of / after a huge march (as well as in other conditions, without a doubt). That forest with the ditches and embankments is astonishing, despite to the traffic noises. Thanks and cheers!

[@Jubilo1]

As a Yank who's been there I miss the Corbett Theatre and the Churchill Pub. I don't imagine Loughton is still English however.

[@Twirlover]

Perfect. Just such a serene atmosphere ( I know the traffic sounds can be heard in Epping but that doesn’t detract from its wrap around peace, in my opinion) The shot of the trees looking as though they are leaning , stoically over the hillfort is magical. Well that’s how I see it anyway. The deer looked ethereal, especially the first ones who danced away! The rosti and veg looked delicious and your making of it has prompted me to dig my box of the same out of the kitchen cupboard 🙂 Thanks Tweedy for another terrific jaunt.

[@elvis197797]

Rosti actually looks quite tasty! 😎

[@WC21UKProductionsLtd]

I love that Epping Forest can stand in for, indeed rival the Black Forest. Two intriguing hillforts there. As you pondered, were they opposing tribes? Just what was the landscape like thereabouts in their heydays - less wooded, I suspect. Anyhow, very atmospheric. I vaguely remember the construction of that tunnel. Not sure what the rationale was. Presumably preserving the integrity of the forest. The Paxo rosti seemed eminently suitable for a spot of wild cooking and I note that you consumed it all - so it did the trick! A nice outing. Autumn about two weeks behind up here, I’d say.

[@colin5021]

That's a game of 'follow my tweeder'....I'll get my coat...

[@Micktyb]

Wonderful Epping Forrest well done 👏 should have treated yourself too a portion of Black Forest Gateau 😁😁🍷thanks 👍

[@gordonmculloch4904]

The Rosti with the vegetables and cheese on top looked very appetizing.

[@HappyBird44]

Lidl do a great Rosti from time to time. In a vac packed pocket (so easy to carry) - and offered in plain or with ham pieces.

[@tweedyoutdoors]

That sounds like that would have worked so much better! I'll keep my eye out for those, thanks for the tip.

[@davidberlanny3308]

Afternoon John, completely agree about the beech forest, what a lovely sight to see, just the right amount of leaves on the tree and on the floor. You know I couldn't hear any background traffic at all, do I need to get my hearing checked I wonder? The fort embankments were quite prominent, were they friends or foes, maybe both .... perhaps you should use an image of a "warrior" from Cloppa Castle!! That Rosti did look suspiciously like stuffing, I think you were on for a hiding trying to cook it in that gridle pan but hidden underneath the veg and cheese it really did look good. Top marks from me. We were recently in Switzerland and looking at the border with Bavaria I spotted a couple of German islands on the Swiss side so this dish would count as black forest in my book (not that I know anything about it). It did make me think, you could do a tortilla Espanola, a Spanish Omelette, fairly simple to do, you could do the potatoes at home leaving you to chop some onions in the field. Flat base pan would be needed. Plenty of time once it's underway to open the wine too. There's a Tweedfest going on today, I'm off to find out about the wine!!

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thanks David! Part of the joy of beech forests is that they're usually quite open inside, therefore easy to wander around. I suppose the reality of that is that they're starving other species of light and creating a monoculture! Happy to hear the traffic noise didn't show up in the video! I think that's down to the separate audio recorder I've been using in recent videos. I believe it's designed to record my voice without too much background noise. Although of course some background "noise" is actually desirable - birds tweeting, running water, rustling leaves, etc. I do like a Spanish Omelette but I haven't had a particularly good track record of making those even at home! So there's very little chance of that coming out well on a camp stove with the sort of flimsy pans generally used on said stoves... but perhaps on a short walk I might just about be able to stretch to carrying a proper frying pan from home, and maybe I could make it work...?

[@davidberlanny3308]

@@tweedyoutdoors We used a small frying pan for ours, you don't want a high heat, enough to make the oil slowly bubble (saute?). You'll have space in your rucksack provided you aren't taking the ice bucket!!

[@jeanpeuplu5570]

Not everyone's lunch I guess... But not everyone's lunch makes great video ^^

[@galleryhad7747]

On my travels always end up cooking outdoors. Find meths in most places and can make a stove from two empty soda cans. Hot food on the go is essential. Good times!

[@Pugggle]

I bet he gets home and its straight into the trackies lol

[@iainmc9859]

Rosti, or as known in Britain ... Bubble and Squeak 😆

[@tomrainboro]

Maybe hornbeam, not beech?

[@barryconway]

‘Ere, oo you callin’ imaginary? I do like a bit of rösti. Not sure that Paxo have cracked it there. Carry on.

[@MHawkins-qz1yr]

Can we expect a Tweedy Lego channel next?

[@Simpaulme]

It's not an adventure unless you get a little bit lost.

[@tweedyoutdoors]

I completely agree!

[@SimonRichardsTFA]

Marvellous, as ever.; so much so that I couldn't get this famous piece of 1960s light music out of my head while watching it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sILUeXaYZpuAhMksi=PA_OxQFG_UIvqOYu

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thanks Simon - and what a cheery delight that piece of music is!

[@SepticWhelk]

I don't par boil the spuduals first , grate fry , squidge flat ,add MORE butter pepper one grain of salt , fry a bit more , eat . Big sister canceled my tweedy notifications , you must be a non con formist of some kind , a rebel spirit the machine disproves of ? Almost every one of them beach trees was pollarded many years ago , no telling how old they be .