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.

Huitlacoche Quesadilla

A recipe for huitlacoche quesadillas. Huitlacoche, "corn smut," is a mushroom that grows on corn, and is amazing cooked with chile and onion on a tortilla.

Birch Bolete Bonanza

How to identify, harvest and cook the birch bolete, Leccinum scabrum. Birch boletes are edible, but best dried first.

chanterelle sauce

A recipe for a summery chanterelle sauce that works well with fish, poultry, pasta or bread. Chanterelles, cream, corn and roasted garlic.

Mushroom Fried Rice

A simple, quick and easy recipe for mushroom fried rice. This recipe works with any fresh mushroom, from buttons to morels, and whatever vegetable is in season when you make it.

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.

Wild Mushroom Stuffing

A simple wild mushroom stuffing to serve alongside holiday meals. This recipe has wild mushrooms, bacon, onions and a little egg to bind it.

Creamy Mushrooms on Toast

This is mushrooms savoyard, essentially cheesy, creamy mushrooms on toast. It's a French appetizer that works well with most mushrooms. I used morels.

Teriyaki 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.

Barley Risotto

Barley risotto is an earthy, hearty variant on traditional rice risotto. My recipe uses barley, stock, cheese and shredded grouse.

Chanterelle Pasta

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.