Foraging Archives

Mushrooms

Mushroom Casserole

An easy-to-make, vegetarian mushroom casserole with noodles that works with any sort of mushroom, wild or store-bought. Want meat? Add some!

French

Mushroom Sauce for Steak

This is a classic French mushroom sauce for steak based off a Julia Child recipe. Try it on your next venison steak.

Recipe

Mushroom Chili

A versatile mushroom chili recipe so good you won't miss the meat. In fact, the finely chopped or ground mushrooms taste like meat. And you can add meat if you like!

Mushrooms

Grilled Mushrooms

Grilled mushrooms are a great way to move what's normally a cold weather ingredient outdoors. This recipe works with any meaty mushroom.

Recipe

Elderflower Syrup

Elderflower syrup is a classic use for these incredibly aromatic flowers of spring. Use this to make homemade soda, add it to gin, or make it into a sorbet.

Appetizers and Snacks

Chinese Scallion Pancakes

Chinese style scallion pancakes -- really flatbreads -- are super easy to make and are a dangerously addicting snack.

Pasta, Risotto, Gnocchi

Pasta Primavera

Classic pasta primavera the way Le Cirque used to make it back in the 1970s: Angel hair with fresh spring vegetables and cream.

Recipe

Can you get any more Minnesota than wild rice hotdish? Pretty sure you can't. This easy comfort food casserole is a hat tip to the North Star State, and can be made "wilder" with venison and wild mushrooms.

Mushrooms

Garlic Roasted Mushrooms

This is a simple garlic roasted mushroom recipe that works with any meaty mushroom, from porcini to shiitake to regular button mushrooms.

Mushrooms

Mushroom Tortellini

When life gives you mushrooms, make tortellini out of them. I love these little packets of love, and making them with wild mushrooms is especially lovely.