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Other Wild Mushrooms

Buckwheat Kasha with Mushrooms and Onions

Buckwheat kasha with wild mushrooms, caramelized onions and dill recipe

Buckwheat kasha with wild mushrooms and onions is a classic piece of Eastern European comfort food you need to try. I was ignorant of it for a long time, and I can’t believe it took me so long to get around to it. For me, it’s a dish that’ll  always be tied to a particular…

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White Risotto with Cauliflower Mushroom Ragu

white risotto with cauliflower or sparassis mushroom ragu

I love cauliflower mushrooms / Sparassis, but, honestly I think I like the texture more than the flavor. Don’t get me wrong, they taste excellent, but, it’s hard to find another mushroom with a similar texture. They’re just so unique. With that in mind, when I have access to some fresh cauliflower fungus, I cook…

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Ramaria botrytis

Ramaria botrytis or pink tipped edible coral mushrooms

Ramaria botrytis. These are the best coral mushroom for the table I’ve eaten in the Midwest, and, most importantly, by far the easiest species to identify (they’re pink!). There isn’t a lack of coral mushrooms in my area, but really good ones can be tough to pin down. With the exception of another yellow variety…

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Grilled Lobster Mushroom Salsa

Lobster mushroom recipe for salsa

It was the dog days of summer, and I was craving something cold, and not about to turn on the stove. Heat saps my appetite too, so I don’t eat too much when it’s really hot. In the fridge was a pile of lobster mushrooms. The lobsters are so big and chunky, but what could…

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Lobster Mushroom Breadcrumbs

Skrei cod baked with wild lobster mushroom breadcrumbs

I almost always have bags of dried lobster mushrooms around the apartment. Re-hydrated and mixed into things they’re ok, and just ok. Most of the time though, I’m going to grind the suckers up and do something with the powder. Dried, re-hydrated lobsters might not be that interesting, (toast them a little to bring out…

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Crown-Tipped Coral Croutons

Crown Tipped Coral Mushroom or Artomyces pyxidatus Croutons or Cheese Crackers

I took a few hours this week specifically to hunt some chicken of the woods, and I got skunked, hard. June can be kind of a dead zone in the Midwest for mushrooms until the chanterelles start, you’ll see a few early chickens, but nothing like the amounts that start in the mid to late…

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Seared Prawns with Kale and Coral / Ramaria Mushrooms

Seared prawns with coral or ramaria mushrooms, heirloom garlic butter sauce and lacinato kale

Here’s a really simple, land and sea, or surf and turf combo with those Ramaria / Coral mushrooms we know and love. It took me a number of years to find species of coral fungus in my area I was comfortable with, but after I did some testing to make sure I didn’t suffer from…

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Matsutake with Hakurei Turnips

Matsutake Mushrooms with Hakurei Turnips

As much as I can, I try to plant the seed of enjoying the entire plant when you cook with a part of it. A lot of times, this means cooking with stems, roots, and leaves in a dish, but depending on the season and what you’re cooking it could also be various bulbs, shoots,…

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Steamed Hericium with Fried Herbs and Drawn Butter

Steamed hericium corralloides mushrooms with drawn butter and fried herbs

If you hunt wild mushrooms, you probably know some of the flavor comparisons for well known species. Chicken of the woods taste like chicken, chanterelles smell like apricots, slippery jacks taste like viscous slugs (fresh at least), candy caps taste like maple syrup and hericium mushrooms cook a bit like crab (note that I said…

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Lobster Mushroom Bolognese

Lobster Mushroom Bolognese

When I was dreaming up of what to make for my dinner with the writers of Untamed Mushrooms to celebrate their book release, I knew I wanted to do a few courses of mine and a course or two inspired by the book. If you’re a mushroom hunter and you haven’t grabbed a copy order one and…

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Limousin Flank Steak with Vietnamese Coriander and Lobster Mushroom Hash

Flank Steak with Vietnamese Coriander and Lobster Mushroom Hash

After I found the local vendors at the St. Paul Farmer’s Market selling Vietnamese coriander (Persicaria odorata) and figured out what it was, I had to make a dish with it. After a day or two of playing around with the herb, the first way I served it was the simplest I could think of:…

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Wilted Amaranth, Chesnok Garlic and Summer Wild Mushrooms

Wilted Amaranth With Summer Wild Mushrooms and Chesnok Garlic

I’ve been eating more and more amaranth in the past few years, for some reason I forgot I could wilt it like spinach. For a year or two all I did was put it in salads, and then it needs to be blended with other greens. If you use it raw, it can be a…

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Cordyceps Militaris

Cordyceps militaris

If you’ve read mushroom field guides, or have spent any time watching mushroom flavored media, you’re probably familiar with Cordyceps: the group of mushroom species famous for taking over the bodies and minds of insects to do their reproductive bidding. Long story short, the fungus infects insects (ants seem to be the most well known)…

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Got treated to a home cooked meal of big lamb meat Got treated to a home cooked meal of big lamb meatballs from the Icelandic lambs @shepherdsongfarm gave us. 

It’s been a while since I had fist-size meatballs. They reminded me of dinners I had with Grandpa at Yarussos in St. Paul, where you got one meatball to rule them all on top of your spaghetti and red gravy. 

Obv I had to make some with venison, wild rice, ramps, and bergamot. The wild rice is fun. Hefty. 

Also forgot to oil my hands, like a chump. 🙄

#ballingonabudget #meatballs #naptime #venison #rampleaves #comfortfoods #rusticfood #monardafistulosa
Tres Leches soaked in candy cap milk was a fun var Tres Leches soaked in candy cap milk was a fun variation I did on the house dessert of a little restaurant I was at for a time. 

Don’t be surprised if you smell like maple syrup a few hours after eating it. Using ground dried golden chanterelles is another variation that’s on my list to try. 

Link in bio to see how to make your own. 

#candycaps #treslechescake #myteethfellout #wildmushrooms #wildfoodlove
ARISE #fungimancer #frostbite #morels #tisthes ARISE 

 #fungimancer 
#frostbite #morels #tistheseason #mushroomhunting #winter #offseasontraining
Big thanks🙏 to all of you who showed your suppo Big thanks🙏 to all of you who showed your support with the first line of spirits @ida_graves_distillery and I collaborated on. 

Brock did a great job wrangling the wild things, and we have plenty of fun ideas in store (think aging nocino in barrels, new flavor combos, etc). If you’re in the Twin Cities and still need some, the amaro is #soldout but @ombibulousmn has nocino, and should have the spruce  liquor (goes down like pine gin) soon. Thank you!

#distillery #foragedcocktails #nocino #craftspirits #drinkatree #mnspirits #smallbatch #godscountry
Let’s talk roadkill. Honestly, roadkill is too s Let’s talk roadkill. Honestly, roadkill is too specific a term for me—I don’t limit myself to vehicular-harvested meat. 

However you feel about the topic, grab some popcorn and head over to the comment section on my blog (link in bio) for the 🔥personal stories from readers have shared from around the world. 

There’s the kid who brought home a nutria after school, a wife getting 4 deer with the same car, a train hitting a herd of elk, a bear named squish, living in a house with weasels, and more. 

#budgetgourmet #gleaning #scavenging #meatismeat #roadkill #freefoods #finderskeepers #wastenotwantnot
Sam Thayer dropped 25 lbs of his highbush cranberr Sam Thayer dropped 25 lbs of his highbush cranberry cultivars (3 types!) on me before the last snowfall and I honestly don’t even know where to start after processing them. I’d already made jams and hot sauce already and I have enough for a year. 😅

Great time to practice the cold-juice which ensures the juice isn’t bitter. 

Anyone else have any ideas? 

You can still find some on the shrubs if the birds didn’t get them up by the north shore. 

#highbushcranberry #winterforaging #birdberries #sweetnectar #foragerproblems #juiceme #embarassmentofriches #wildfoodlove
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