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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.

    Narrow your search:

    • Fiddleheads
    • Asparagus End Soup (What to do with Asparagus Ends)
    • Puntarelle: A Deliciously Bitter Italian Chicory
    • Cattail Rhizome Salad with Smoked Trout
    • Swamp Saxifrage Shoots
    • Vignarola: Italian Spring Vegetable Stew
    • Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum)
    • Foraging and Cooking Solomon's Seal Shoots (Polyganatum biflorum)
    • Rainbow Trout with Fiddleheads and Pheasant Backs
    • Pheasant Back-Spring Vegetable Soup
    • Simple Fiddlehead Fern Salad with Mint
    • Goldenrod Shoots
    • Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
    • Fiddlehead Soup with Vegetables and Pesto
    • Hosta Shoot Kimchi
    • Marinated Hosta Shoots
    • Gosari: A Special Korean Vegetable (Dried Fiddlehead Ferns)
    • Cattail and Milkweed Shoot Salad
    • Lacto-Fermented Fiddlehead Ferns
    • Burdock Stalks and Carrot Saute
    • Hop Shoot Frittata
    • Wild Shoot Salad with Dryad Saddles and Wild Mint
    • Fermented Knotweed Pickles
    • Smilax Shoots / Carrion Flower
    • Japanese-Style Day Lily Shoots (Gomae)
    • Spaghetti with Cattail Pollen Sauce and Marigolds
    • Sochan: A Traditional Cherokee Green (Coneflower Leaves)
    • Sauteed Asparagus and Mushrooms
    • Hosta Shoots
    • Milkweed Pods
    • Day Lily Shoots
    • Burdock Flower Stalks
    • Marinated Cattail Hearts
    • Squash and Pumpkin Shoots
    • Saffron Salmon with Lillies
    • Bread and Butter Fiddlehead Pickles
    • Fiddleheads with Spruce Tips and Lemon Agrumato
    • Knotweed Mousse Cake With Maple Buttercream and Wildflowers
    • Knotweed Sorbet
    • Knotweed Fruit Leather
    • Japanese Knotweed: Hunting, Harvesting, Cooking and Recipes

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