Bowl full of rice vermicelli noodles and colourful vegetables herbs and edible flowers
Foraged Foods

Vietnamese Bún with Puffball Mushroom

Bún is a traditional Vietnamese dish of rice vermicelli noodles topped with meat, veggies, and sometimes chopped spring rolls. It is served with nước chấm, a bracing sauce made primarily of fish sauce.

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grilled slices of puffball mushroom coated in za'atar spice on a blue plate
Foraged Foods

Smoked Za’atar Puffball Mushroom

Manakish is a Levantine dish consisting of pita bread, slathered in za’atar, cheese, or minced meat and baked, almost like an Arabic pizza. Giving puffball mushrooms a similar treatment makes for seasoned crunchy on the outside, tender on the inside deliciousness!

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plate piled with fried panfish
Fish

Crispy Fried Whole Panfish

This dish is all about getting messy and gluttonously eating with your hands. Limits on panfish are usually quite high, so if you can catch yourself a pile of them, and don’t mind some prep work, you can have your own little fish fry!

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mapo tofu on rice with cucumber slices
Beef

Mapo Tofu

Mapo Tofu is a comforting spicy dish that originated in China’s Sichuan province. Its name loosely translates to Pockmarked Old Woman’s Tofu and points towards the dish’s creator in the city of Chengdu.

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