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Spruce Tips Recipe - Spruce Curd
Steamed buns filled with spruce curdThe new growth of some conifers is just starting, and we can collect the tender tips to eat raw and create some recipes. We collect the tips from several conifers,...
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Dryad's Saddle and Gochujang
Dryad's cooked with gochujang and stuffed into temakiLots and lots of dryad's saddle polypore (Cerioporus squamosus) are out and at a perfect consumption stage in southern New England right now. Some...
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The "Original" Mushroom Jerky-Hen of the Woods Mushroom Jerky
Many years ago, we were inundated with several large maitake mushrooms (Grifola frondosa), and I actually mean dozens of them. We were somewhat forced to come up with ways to use the bounty beyond the...
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Chicken Mushroom Recipe - Chicken Mushroom with Snow Peas and Sesame Noodles
Using one of the most versatile wild mushrooms in recipes can be as simple as substituting it for a similar protein in recipes. Chicken mushroom, once properly prepared first, can easily replace real...
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Wild Mushrooms: Best Texture and Taste Through Correct Handling
Miso-Soy Glazed Maitake over Forbidden Rice PilafWild mushrooms can be an excellent meat substitute in many meals for meat eaters and vegetarian alike for a few reasons. Their ability to satisfy hunger...
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Preserving Your Wild Mushroom Harvests through Dehydration/Drying
Lots of Black Trumpets!When the wild mushrooms fruit in abundance, the picking can be pretty intense in southern New England. Some years the weather conditions cooperate and we get warm temperatures...
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Preserving Your Wild Mushroom Harvests through Freezing, Canning, and...
Lots of hens to preserveWhen the wild mushrooms fruit in abundance, the picking can be pretty intense in southern New England. Some years the weather conditions cooperate and we get warm temperatures...
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Wild Mushrooms for Dinner: Chicken Mushroom Paprikas
Here we have a chicken mushroom paprikas, a traditional Hungarian dish with a tomato base, lots of paprika, onions, garlic, and some sweet peppers. Robert made some fresh nokedli dumplings and served...
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Wild Mushrooms for Dinner: Maitake Chili-Stuffed Potatoes
Hen (Grifola frondosa) season is in full swing after a small weather delay in southern New England. Our dehydrators are going day and night, filled with jerky, leaving me with lots of leftover "bits"...
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Wild Mushrooms for Dinner: Hedgehog Hand Pies with Acorn Crust
Our autumn mushrooms include hedgehogs, in the genus Hydnum. On the underside of the caps these are small teeth, or spines instead of gills or pores. They are cousins of chanterelles in taste, and cook...
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Wild Cranberry Turnovers
Wild cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon) can be found in a few places in Connecticut, but are far more common in the dunes along Cape Cod. On our visit there a few weekends ago, we packed our wild...
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Wild Mushrooms for Dinner: Giant Puffball Pizza
We are not among the lucky few who often find giant puffballs (Calvatia gigantea) in the area, usually finding the little pear-shaped ones on wood (Lycoperdon pyriforme), the gem studded ones on the...
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Spring Edibles - Greens and Mushrooms
After the cold winter the spring greens and shoots are a bit slow to emerge. We find ourselves turning our faces up towards the sun on the nice days, warming our cheeks. Looking down at the ground for...
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Spring Mushrooms of Connecticut--Morels and Pheasant Backs
Spring is a great time to get out and forage for greens and sprouts, but a lean time for most mushrooms. Only a few edible fungi dare to show up in our area of southern New England; the hunting doesn't...
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Hemlock "Reishi", Ganoderma tsugae, Varnish Shelf Mushroom--Eat it young!
Fully grown Ganoderma tsugae on hemlock treesSome warmer weather is finally signalling the Ganoderma tsugae to fruit. We find them on eastern hemlock trees (Tsuga canadensis), dead or nearly dead...
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The "official" morel season seems to be underway in Connecticut and southern New England, even though we still don't find too many. Why? Is the soil wrong? Are the trees wrong? What is up with the...
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Mix old with new--Spring ramps with Autumn maitake!
Maitake burgers on ramps biscuits, made with the greens onlyIn spring, we need to start emptying out the freezer of last season's stored bounty but also crave freshly foraged green goodies.Here we...
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Wild Mushrooms for Dinner: Spicy Chicken (Mushroom) Patties on Steamed Buns
When we teach edible mushroom classes, we praise the chicken mushroom (Laetiporus sulphureus, L. cincinnatus) as a very good edible mushroom. It's not so much that the mushroom tastes like chicken, but...
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Mulberry Marzipane and Mulberry Agar jewels
Mulberries are falling and staining the sidewalks around town, and you can hear the flocks of birds among the branches. Mulberry picking is easy--the ripe berries almost fall into your bucket, or you...
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Recipe - Dandelion Root Pudding
Wintertime is a good time for us to go over our stores of wild food from the previous seasons and use them in some dishes and recipes. Here we used dandelion root powder to make a smooth, creamy, and...
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