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    Wild Stalks and Shoots

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    Stalks and shoots aren't a category of items you'll find at the grocery store, but it's something you'll have access to as a forager. There's a lot of different wild edible plants that make delicious shoots. Here's a few quick links of my favorites.

    Favorites

    Fiddlehead Recipes 

    Foraging and Cooking Solomon Seal Shoots 

    Wood Nettle Shoots 

    Foraging and Cooking Goldenrod Shoots

    Smilax / Carrion Flower 

    Solomon seal, fiddlehead, and swamp saxifrage shoots on a board

    Fiddlehead, solomon seal, and bracken fern shoots.

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    Fiddleheads
    • Cooking with Garlic Scapes
    • A bowl of asparagus end soup with herbs and vegetables in a ceramic bowl.
      Asparagus End Soup (What to do with Asparagus Ends)
    • a head of puntarelle chicory on a piece of wood with black background.
      Puntarelle: A Deliciously Bitter Italian Chicory
    • Cattail salad with lemon, smoked trout and chickweed with runner bean flowers
      Cattail Rhizome Salad with Smoked Trout
    • Swamp saxifrage shoots (Saxifraga pensylvanica)
      Swamp Saxifrage Shoots
    • Midwesetern Vignarola 2017
      Vignarola: Italian Spring Vegetable Stew
    • Leaves and tender tops of Silphium perfoliatum or cup plant
      Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum)
    • Edible False Solomon's Seal Shoots Maianthemum racemosum
      Foraging and Cooking Solomon's Seal Shoots (Polyganatum biflorum)
    • Trout with pheasant back mushrooms, spring shoots and ramp oil
      Rainbow Trout with Fiddleheads and Pheasant Backs
    • Pheasant back mushroom soup with fiddleheads and green garlic recipe
      Pheasant Back-Spring Vegetable Soup
    • Fiddlehead salad recipe with olive oil lemon and herbs
      Simple Fiddlehead Fern Salad with Mint
    • Edible Canada goldenrod shoots
      Goldenrod Shoots
    • Edible Virginia bluebells or Mertensia virginica
      Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
    • vegetable soup with fiddlehead ferns in a bowl
      Fiddlehead Soup with Vegetables and Pesto
    • Hosta Shoot Kimchi recipe
      Hosta Shoot Kimchi
    • Marinated hosta shoots salad
      Marinated Hosta Shoots
    • Dried or dehydrated ostrich fiddlehead ferns
      Gosari: A Special Korean Vegetable (Dried Fiddlehead Ferns)
    • Cattail and milkweed shoot salad recipe
      Cattail and Milkweed Shoot Salad
    • lactofermented pickled fiddlehead fern recipe
      Lacto-Fermented Fiddlehead Ferns
    • Sauteed burdock flower stalks and carrots with herbs recipe
      Burdock Stalks and Carrot Saute
    • Hop shoot frittata recipe
      Hop Shoot Frittata
    • Fiddlehead, asparagus, smilax and hop shoots with dryad saddle or pheasant back mushrooms and wild mint
      Wild Shoot Salad with Dryad Saddles and Wild Mint
    • Brine fermented japanese knotweed recipe
      Fermented Knotweed Pickles
    • Foraging for edible carrion flower shoots, or smilax / greenbriar
      Smilax Shoots / Carrion Flower
    • Japanese style day lily shoot salad recipe
      Japanese-Style Day Lily Shoots (Gomae)
    • Duck Egg Pasta with Herbs
      Spaghetti with Cattail Pollen Sauce and Marigolds
    • Edible sochan or Rudbeckia Laciniata
      Sochan: A Traditional Cherokee Green (Coneflower Leaves)
    • sauteed asparagus and mushrooms
      Sauteed Asparagus and Mushrooms
    • Edible hosta shoots
      Hosta Shoots
    • edible common milkweed pods
      Milkweed Pods
    • Day lily shoots and tubers.
      Day Lily Shoots
    • burdock flower stalks
      Burdock Flower Stalks
    • marinated cattail hearts
      Marinated Cattail Hearts
    • squash-shoots
      Squash and Pumpkin Shoots
    • Salmon With Six Lilies and Saffron
      Saffron Salmon with Lillies
    • Bread and Butter Pickled Fiddleheads
      Bread and Butter Fiddlehead Pickles
    • Fiddlehead, Asparagus Salad with Spruce Tips, Lavender Radish and Fresh Herbs
      Fiddleheads with Spruce Tips and Lemon Agrumato
    • Wild rice cake and knotweed mousse roulade
      Knotweed Mousse Cake With Maple Buttercream and Wildflowers
    • Japanese Knotweed Sorbet_-3
      Knotweed Sorbet
    • japanese knotweed and apple leather
      Knotweed Fruit Leather

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