Recipe
Mushroom Tart
A mushroom tart recipe with an eggy, cheesy filling and a crispy pie dough crust. You can use any sort of mushrooms, and either a pie or tart pan.
Recipe
A mushroom tart recipe with an eggy, cheesy filling and a crispy pie dough crust. You can use any sort of mushrooms, and either a pie or tart pan.
Mushrooms
A simple wild mushroom stuffing to serve alongside holiday meals. This recipe has wild mushrooms, bacon, onions and a little egg to bind it.
British
How to make traditional British mincemeat pies with venison or other meat. I use venison mincemeat with a Scottish flair, using wild berries and Scotch.
Sweet Things
How to make pine nut cookies, pignoli, with American pine nuts -- although any kind of pine nut works. These cookies have a touch of rosemary in them and are not too sweet.
Mushrooms
This is mushrooms savoyard, essentially cheesy, creamy mushrooms on toast. It's a French appetizer that works well with most mushrooms. I used morels.
Mushrooms
Teriyaki mushrooms are simply mushrooms glazed in a homemade teriyaki sauce. Any meaty mushroom works, and these make a wonderful side dish or vegetarian main course.
Pasta, Risotto, Gnocchi
Barley risotto is an earthy, hearty variant on traditional rice risotto. My recipe uses barley, stock, cheese and shredded grouse.
Recipe
A semi-sweet, moist fig and nut bread that's great for breakfast or a snack; it's a hybrid fig bread and fig cake. Walnuts add a nice crunch.
Mushrooms
A fun, summertime recipe for chanterelle pasta: Pasta with chanterelle mushrooms, sweet corn, cherry tomatoes and basil. You could use other mushrooms, too, found or bought.
Essays and Stories
Wild ingredients can link you to time and place on a plate in ways far stronger than supermarket food. Here's one example of doing exactly that.
Mushrooms
An easy Italian cross between an omelet and a quiche, this frittata is stuffed with wild mushrooms and wild spinach.
Foraging
Amaranth greens, a/k/a pigweed, are some of the most nutritious leafy greens you can eat. Here's how to harvest and cook them.