Puha and Pork Chops - Wild Forage Boil Up

We go in search of a tasty edible weed called puha (milk thistle), a tasty green weed full of flavour and healthy for you too. A staple winter food in New Zealand for many people.
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[@BEEOHEXX]

Can you go into a little more detail about what to look for / what the leaves look like when you're picking? Super interesting!

[@samdewhurst-phillips]

G'day from Tasmania mate👍🏻. I'd never heard of Puha until a couple months ago.. when I saw the fresh plant I couldn't believe I've had it growing in my back yard for years and just been chucking in on the compost heap.. Have a patch specifically for it now. Just about time for a boil up😎

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Good on you bro, try the boil up out, you'll like it I'm sure

[@chrisgriffin9164]

Thank you Rubber and his master, this is best identification of puha on yourube. much appreciated. now I can heat the pot of brisket and doe boys up and have a feed. Awesome neighbour.

[@peterkiwara3986]

You should be on tv the new Kai time on the road

[@kristinreign8026]

Yess

[@itsjustme9354]

I reckon too!

[@tleej26]

Always great to see you out and about with Rubba and then enjoying your efforts with a good meal.

[@danielkemp4187]

Enjoying the feed on a Sunday arvo here in Aus, before the working week. Just perfect to unwind and get the taste buds going… thank you my brother

[@caroltaylor4133]

Reka !!!!🤤 Best Kai for these cold days 👌 Enjoy

[@poonui46]

Too good, unko! Keep up the content🤙 Aloha from Hawai'i.

[@brettouten529]

Mean as kai , swear I could smell it when you lifted the lid up!

[@sugaredwards-ww5os]

Hi I love watching your videos, makes me sooo hungry for puha

[@Pikikura]

well I know what I'm having for tea tomorrow, might have to go foraging for some puha as well this looks reka as!!!

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Very sweet this one, in my top 10

[@rukahard]

That's it boil up tomorrow for tea haha

[@knowledge_is_key8363]

Learnt something new how to pick puha cheers bro

[@valonahereora3486]

OH MY GOSH, YYYYYUUUUUMMMMM, LOVE ME PUHA.

[@johnnyT66]

Kia ora Mike. Awesome to watch your videos brother. Sunday mission now. Go out and gather some puha for a pork and puha boilup for Sunday night dinner.

[@loganmorrell]

Chur mike iv got heaps in my back yard praise the lord brother

[@Warwck24]

Yum looks great

[@lewiskupa8166]

too much alright brava mike nice puha gather and cook

[@Tokoa144]

Cool feed bro.. might get me some now.

[@hypenation84]

Enjoy your videos bro new subscriber here

[@puppyy594]

your videos teach me so much thank you!!!

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Thanks

[@HelenNetallica]

That’s nice puha!..have it growing on my property everywhere!

[@EJfenton_2018]

Another famous Mike boil up, reka!

[@ititeiri8840]

Looks delicious watercress is my favorite though might try puha it looks yummy

[@kristinreign8026]

Hi Rubba hunting & gathering again 😊😊☺️

[@greenwayfilms1]

love it awesome work bro

[@normantulikaki924]

Chuuurrr brother weka 👌🏽☝🏽🙏🏽💙

[@doverhughes8054]

Pheww look at all the wild fennel growing around that puha

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Fennel was growing all along this track, smells nice

[@ST0L3NLAND]

Tino reka my bro👆

[@nepiahemopo1702]

Love my puha.

[@laurahindle2859]

Thanks!

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Thank you for your support Laura, we appreciate it 🙏

[@indramuhammad1942]

Kia ora sir I really like the food you cook and introduce 😁😋

[@userbrentcarter]

Cooking show!!

[@roytuala6649]

Looks so nice brada,,,👍👍looks delicious,

[@maakarotarangi5140]

After all this rain we been getting the puha should b thriving Looks nice bro Boil Ups 4 Life

[@samanthasamuels9894]

Yummer boil up feed mike... mean.

[@adriennefloreen]

What amazes me is that if I go out in my own yard in California or anywhere in nature, I see all the exact same plants. Not just the ones you are calling Puha but all of them. The buttercups, fennel, cleavers, blackberries, and even the giant grasses.I see one plant in your video that grows here too that you keep walking by that is called solanum nigrum, sometimes called black nightshade. The next time you are out in nature can you get a few close ups of that plant, especially the flowers and how big they are compared to your finger? Also, buttercups have an oil on their skin that causes some people like me to get a rash, so I'd be careful pulling edible plants out of buttercup patches or placing them on top of them. I do that very carefully, without touching the buttercups.

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

I just target puha when I go out to gather greens from the land and watercress by the water 🙂

[@nartnee8596]

We eat the nightshade to but before they flower

[@Toninz]

Awesome!!!:)))

[@tumeke4328]

Yumm bro cracked it with the Puha!

[@justinpihama3405]

Awesome mate. Love watching your channel catching fish or doing a boil up mouth watering goodness 🤤 😅 yeap you'll probably wont see the young generation strolling the banks picking puha unless they were brought up doing tht. looks lovely mate

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Kia ora bro, I have never seen anyone else out picking puha or watercress. It's crazy with the amount of Māori living here .. and the price of kai.🤷🏽‍♂️

[@justinpihama3405]

@@WekaDigitalMediaNZ I agree with you Mike unbelievable the price of things. Awww shame our ppl don't go out and look for wild vegetables. I was brought up on the farm mate my best memories growing up as a young maori boy was going with my mother on the farm while she picked watercress puha as my father was a shepherd one of those typical maori families mate boil ups fried bread tatakau bread Rewena bread wild pork venison eel trout rabbit hare young flappers right before they're ready to fly and I tell you bro they are delicious flappers better than any chicken brought from the shops and of course living on the farm mutton and beef but such a shame most ppl now are so used to the convenience of our produce wrapped up ready to go awesome stuff you do Mike 👍

[@shanedavies9564]

Nice mike have found pork and puha and pork watercress sausages at pack and spend so I'm keen to try them as I have never had a boil up looking forward to a taste test lols , cheers , shaneo, nelson, 👍

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Those are the ones Shane, they are tasty as.. better grilled than in a boil up though. Don't see them in our pack and spend very often

[@benjamint3880]

Yummmm ❤

[@WakaTakitimu]

Oh, YUUUM! That's me tomorrow lol.

[@zanealpha4075]

Yes been feeling like a puha boilups an it's season

[@nic.prov1]

Yum!!! Looks delicious, Mike! For me personally, my all-time favourite boil-up is whichever one I'm eating in that moment 🤣 I can't even imagine eating that right now though... it's been around 40°C here for the past 2 months 😭 How were those sausages? They looked really good

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

It is indeed hard work eating a warming 'boil up' in summer Nicole, I rarely do that lol. I like the pork and watercress sausages more than the pork and puha. Can taste the watercress and it goes well .... well enough that I might do a cook up somewhere for a video of its own.

[@raymika2804]

That reminds me of your toroi cook up video

[@userbrentcarter]

Mangrove oyster patch!

[@holdenfalconreggae5138]

yummy, 4got the important part, tomato sauce

[@angelinaandzue1068]

Ka mau te wehi 👍

[@sterlingratema3512]

Kapai bro & Rubber you guys are looking good another awesome watch again bro keep em coming 💯❤️👌🏽

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Kia ora Pukz, nice to see you getting out there catching those tuna in this weather 🙂

[@sterlingratema3512]

@@WekaDigitalMediaNZ ae brother Mike all on the gaff 38 Kft Kentucky fried tuna

[@trinidad510]

​@@WekaDigitalMediaNZ Māori food reminds me of American holiday food. that's very similar to what we make for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Being from California I grew up with a lot of Hawaiians, Samoans, and Tongans, but have never tried Māori food it looks great bro, need to visit NZ and try it, much love

[@Snowman666]

Because that made me HUNGRY Michael!

[@Snowman666]

I love my puha after the third boil and the juice unbelievable thats the best strained slightly add mussels onions anything really I'm in Melbourne and I'm going to find me puha/watercress either way I'll get it!

[@francinalinton898]

He tino reka to kai! Kei hea nga do-boys?

[@debramage739]

Yummo Mike, had a home made shepards pie, but wanted to eat yours. Lol

[@johngraham5948]

Ive never had boil up pork chops I've had everything else but not pork chops I'm gonna do some next boil up with watercress and dough boys

[@gc6715]

When’s the next camping video with your new tent bro??

[@userbrentcarter]

Taste test!

[@mandoleenebando429]

Good change from the bacon and eggs bro lol 👍🏿

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Bacon goes well with puha not so sure about eggs though 😬

[@lisasnell8927]

Yarmmyyy pork an puha😋😋😋 and on a lovely winters day. The roast veggies looked great to! I would imagine it had that nice roast flavour rather than boiled in the pot👌👍awesome feed I'm going puha hunting now! Lol cheers Mike looking forward to your camping trip... have a great day.

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Something different ay Lisa? I think there was better flavour from roasting the veges than boiling.. way sweeter. Plus the puha and meat was more flavoursome. I could be on to a winner 😬😅 Good luck with the gathering!

[@lisasnell8927]

@@WekaDigitalMediaNZ just drove past a spot gotta ask the neighbour if I can weed their garden.... just puha weeding 🤭🤭🤭

[@darrenomalley5891]

Just wondering is the oyster tree still around?

[@dropkick4440]

Puha are plentiful in kiwi fruit orchards

[@vickiwadsworth9482]

Did you feel like you were being watched?? Remember that time you filmed what looked like a UFO??

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

I'm close to an old urupa

[@vickiwadsworth9482]

@@WekaDigitalMediaNZ What's that??

[@kelvincudby2946]

Where's the yummy lamb neck chops cuz??....

[@RubyPlanet81]

You are so lucky to be able to gather puha and watercress etc. I have to buy watercress, baby spinach and cabbage in my boil up. I know that watercress and puha grows in the mountains and even the subtropics but I haven't found it in the Mediterranean climate in the hills near me in Australia. Also, were those other plants Italian parsley and dill or fennel?

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Mostly fennel

[@RubyPlanet81]

@@WekaDigitalMediaNZ Cool. I would so haven't that I make a really nice fennel and chilli leafy green salad. But I am the only one in my household who eats fennel Also, searing the pork and adding garlic would make that boil up so tasty! 🤤😋 Can't wait for your next boil up or any cook up video 😊

[@peterwallace4964]

I live in Coolum Queensland and I look for puha everywhere

[@MrBrown307]

kiaora Mikey, was that fennel growing along side the puha or toxic hemlock

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Both

[@sammyy-g]

Is the puha prickly when you eat it ?

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

No

[@walkintomydream7208]

I see these many times all year around in the bush. Why does it have season? Can I eat it when it’s not in season?

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Puha is a seasonal green winter crop and is there for a healthy nutritional food source in the cold months. Everything grows seasonal for a purpose like citrus for vitamin C also in winter.🙂

[@walkintomydream7208]

@@WekaDigitalMediaNZ oh thanks 🙏🏼 I will try them this winter ❄️ Love food from the nature 🤩

[@ST0L3NLAND]

Chur bei rubber

[@markedwards9879]

? Mike.Is there Puha in Australia.

[@shane0nz]

Tonnes in Australia, huge bunches

[@kristinreign8026]

Wow didn't think there was don't think it's name is the same as NZ more commonly known as Sow Thistle? Could be wrong about the name tho hah

[@shane0nz]

@@kristinreign8026 yep or milk thistle. id always grab some. Aussie's wouldn't touch it, wouldn't trust me😂 after seeing people selling bunches for $5 back home i said this stuff is like gold 😂

[@kristinreign8026]

There is no Puha in Auz but there is similar to what's in NZ. Hence the reason they call it thistle etc. Yes it is expensive to buy here in NZ Aswel as watercress rip off best to go out & pick ya own if U can find the right spots 😆

[@markedwards9879]

@@kristinreign8026 yer i have problems indentifying it.

[@t3chn1n35]

I hate the prickly puha idky just do

[@karenherangi6125]

It's not weeds.

[@shadimurwi7170]

Dont eat pork meat