American Recipes
Cranberry Sausage Stuffing
A simple recipe for cranberry sausage stuffing with lots of variations depending on what you have on hand. Sausage, stale bread, nuts and dried berries are the stars.
Recipe
Lingonberry Sauce
Making lingonberry sauce is easy: It's just lingonberries and sugar - and time. Sugared lingonberries are a versatile Scandinavian condiment.
British
Venison Mincemeat Pies
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.
Recipe
Fig Bread
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.
Foraging
Elderberry Liqueur
Instructions on how to make elderberry liqueur from fresh elderberries; this recipe keeps the berries whole, which makes a clean liqueur.
Sweet Things
Elderberry Ice Cream
I love ice creams. They are my main weakness when it comes to sweets, and I specialize in weird ice…
Sweet Things
Blackberry Panna Cotta
Blackberry panna cotta is a joy of summer, and can be made in several different ways that I’ll go through…
How-To (DIY stuff)
Prickly Pear Juice
How to make prickly pear juice, known in Mexico as agua de tuna. How to juice a prickly pear without getting the spines in your hand!
American Recipes
Doves with Prickly Pear BBQ Sauce
A damn good barbecue sauce featuring the fruit of the prickly pear, also called a tuna.
Berries and Fruits
Pickled Blueberries
Pickled blueberries - blueberries or huckleberries (or really any small berry) preserved in a semi-sweet vinegar. Use them alongside meat or poultry.
Berries and Fruits
Harvesting the Red Huckleberry
I have been inordinately obsessed with red huckleberries ever since I ate a handful at a friend's house years ago. This year is epic for them, and I finally managed to pick several pounds. Here's how to find, harvest, prep and eat your red hucks.
Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
Grouse Northwoods
An ode to the ruffed grouse of the Northwoods, whether they're in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan or Canada. This recipe relies on flavors familiar to this part of the world: wild rice, mushrooms, cranberries.
