Foraged Foods
Mashed Potatoes with Spruce Tip Swirl
These mashed potatoes with a spruce tip swirl are a delicious and impressive dish to present to guests during the spring time!
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Baking
Pheasant Back and Kasha Knishes
These pheasant back and kasha knishes are baked goodies stuffed with wild mushrooms and buckwheat, done in the New York style!
Fish
Spruce Tip Pickled Pike
This spruce tip pickled pike is the perfect thing to make with smallish pike that are biting hard in the spring when the spruce are budding!
Foraged Foods
Roasted Spring Veggies with Curry Oil
These roasted spring veggies with curry oil are a medley of fiddleheads, hosta shoots, and pheasant backs, roasted and served with curry oil!
Foraged Foods
Creamy Tarragon Pheasant and Pheasant Back Mushrooms
This creamy tarragon pheasant and pheasant back mushrooms uses both the bird and mushroom with the bird’s namesake in a dreamy rich dish!
Fish
Spring Forager’s Curry with Bullhead Catfish
This spring forager’s curry uses bullhead catfish and plenty of foraged spring treasures to augment its Thai-inspired coconut curry base!
Foraged Foods
Morel and Fiddlehead Pasta with Ramp Butter
This morel and fiddlehead pasta with ramp butter is a fantastic way to use up some of your spring foraging bounty!
Foraged Foods
Rice with Wild Vegetables – Sansai Gohan
This rice with wild vegetables is based on the Japanese dish sansai gohan, or rice with mountain vegetables. I used local wild edibles.
Foraged Foods
Japanese Coltsfoot Gomae
This Japanese coltsfoot gomae is a take on the series of Japanese dishes that consist of vegetables tossed into a delicious sesame sauce!
Foraged Foods
Canadian Maple Leaf Fritters
These Canadian maple leaf fritters are made from young sugar maple leaves, maple syrup, and beer. It couldn’t get any more Canadian, eh?
Big Game
Yu Xiang Wild Pork with Amber Jelly Roll Fungus
This Yu Xiang wild pork with amber jelly roll fungus is a great way to eat feral hog/wild boar and early season wild mushrooms!
Baking
Moose Tongue and Black Trumpet Pizza
This moose tongue and black trumpet pizza is sure to please even the most dubious about nose to tail eating!
Foraged Foods
Ruffed Grouse, Porcini, and Sunchoke Risotto
This ruffed grouse, porcini, and sunchoke risotto is an elegant creamy take on the traditional Italian dish that will definitely impress!
Foraged Foods
Goose and Black Trumpet Chop Suey
This goose and black trumpet chop suey is a wild take on the Chinese-American classic, using Canada goose breast and black trumpet mushrooms!
Foraged Foods
Black Walnut Garo
This black walnut garo is a wild take on the delicious Georgian condiment that is often served with roast chicken, or smeared onto bread.