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    Nuts and Starches

    About

    I harvest a number of different nuts and starches. Mostly nuts, or roots and tubers.

    foraged butternuts in their green husk on a tray

    Butternuts, also known as white walnuts are one of a few types I like. 

    Quick Links

    Wild Nuts

    Each different type of wild nut is different, you'll find individual tutorials for processing specific types below.

    • The Forager's Guide to Black Walnuts
    • The Forager's Guide to Shagbark Hickory Nuts 
    • Butternuts / White Walnuts 
    • How to Make Acorn Flour 

    Wild Rice

    If you think you know wild rice, even if you're from the Midwest, please read my Guide to Wild Rice (Purchasing and Cooking) 

    a pile of black paddy wild rice next to parched wild rice

    Do you know the differences between these two types of wild rice? Both have unique flavors and cooking times.

    Roots and tubers

    Links to recipes and categories on a few different wild roots.

    • Burdock 
    • Wild Parsnip 
    • Lotus Root 
    • Wapato

    Narrow your search:

    Acorns
    Black Walnuts
    Burdock
    Chestnuts
    Hickory Nuts
    Wild Rice
    • persimmon pudding cake with chokecherry sauce on a china plate
      Persimmon-Pudding Cake with Dried Fruit
    • Spicy candied pecans with maple and rosemary
      Spicy Candied Maple Pecans
    • ice cream with nuts in a bowl
      Hickory Smoked Ice Cream
    • Fresh yellow salsify roots with attached leaves (Tragopodon dubius)
      Foraging Oyster Plant or Yellow Salsify
    • a small shot glass of vin de noix or walnut wine
      French Walnut Wine or Vin de Noix
    • Foraging Burdock Root, and Other Edible Parts of the Plant
    • Mezze maniche pasta with Italian walnut sauce served in a bowl garnished wtih parmigiano cheese and walnuts.
      Mezze Maniche Pasta with Walnut Sauce
    • Bonet Piemontese: Italian Chocolate Amaretti Custard
    • A cake inspired by chestnut castaggnaccio cake made with acorn flour.
      How To Make Chestnut Flour, With Recipes
    • Homemade chestnut flour pasta on a baking tray surrounded by fresh chestnuts.
      Homemade Chestnut Flour Pasta
    • Chestnut Polenta (Polenta di Castagne con Ricotta)
    • Necci: Tuscan Chestnut Flour Pancakes / Crepes
    • Finished, formed chestnut gnocchi on a pie plate.
      Homemade Chestnut Flour Gnocchi
    • Rich and Chewy Black Walnut Cookies (with Oatmeal Flour)
    • A warm glass of black walnut milk pictured next to dried black walnuts in the shell and a spoonful of cinnamon.
      Homemade Black Walnut Milk (Dairy Free)
    • Sunchoke Puree
    • A bowl of Italian chestnut soup garnished with creme fraiche, chopped cooked chestnuts and chives surrounded by fresh chestnuts.
      French Cream of Chestnut Soup (Potage aux Marrons)
    • Acorn Pancakes with Pine Nuts
    • Foraging and Cooking Wapato, The Katniss Plant
    • Linden chocolate on an olive wood coaster surrounded by basswood leaves and linden seeds.
      Linden Chocolate
    • Dock seed flour crackers next to a bowl of ground dock flour on a black background.
      Dock Seed Flour
    • a scoop of black walnut ice cream surrounded by black walnuts
      Maple Black Walnut Ice Cream
    • roasted celeriac steaks in a carbon steel pan
      Whole Roasted Celeriac Steak Baked in a Crust
    • Frozen hickory nut oil and maple syrup dessert
      Frozen Hickory Nut Oil and Maple Silk
    • Duck soup with wapato, wild rice and dried morels (20)
      Duck Soup with Wapato, Morels and Wild Rice
    • Bitternut hickory oil from Forager's Harvest
      Sam Thayer's Bitternut Hickory Nut Oil
    • Shagbark hickory syrup
      Shagbark Hickory Syrup
    • Shagbark hickory nut tea
      Hickory Nut Tea
    • Parched wild rice cooked in hickory nut milk with hickory nuts
      Wild Rice Cooked in Hickory Nut Milk
    • Shelled and unshelled shagbark hickory nuts (Carya ovata)
      Shagbark Hickory Nuts
    • Chanterelle mushroom wild rice (3)
      Warm Mushroom Wild Rice Salad
    • Candied green walnut jam on a plate
      Green Black Walnut Jam / Preserves
    • raw hyacinth bulbs or lampascsioni
      Lampascioni: Southern Italy's Edible Hyacinth Bulbs
    • unripe green black walnuts in a bowl in spring
      Cooking with Green Walnuts
    • Black walnut phkali spread made with lambs quarters
      Georgian Walnut Spread / Phkali
    • Wild Rice Flour Cornbread cut with butter
      Wild Rice Flour Cornbread
    • Korean Acorn Jelly or Dotorimuk Recipe
      Korean Acorn Jelly with Chrysanthemum Leaf Salad (Dotorimuk)
    • foraged hickory Nut Milk or Kanuchi
      Traditional Hickory Nut Milk (Kanuchi)
    • Slice of acorn Maple Cake on a plate
      Maple and Acorn Flour Torte
    • Mushroom and walnut sarmasi with black walnuts and wild grape juice
      Hollyhock Sarmasi with Mushroom-Walnut Filling

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