Earlier this week I was throwing together staff meal for a video shoot with Barebones Living. A big bowl of wild rice with chanterelle mushrooms was supposed to be for the crew, but it ended up in the shoot. The shoot was focused on summer foraging and campfire cooking. I’d planned on making pork chops…
Wild Mushroom Recipes
Wild mushrooms recipes are the backbone of this site, and what I started writing about years ago. I find it helpful to separate them into the categories of cooking fresh and dried mushrooms and mushroom preserves, so there's links to those below, followed by all of the recipes on this website in post format. Many recipes can be adapted for fresh or dried mushrooms, so think of the titles as a suggestion. Expect some overlap in the organization.
Chicken of the Woods Thai Red Curry
I love a good curry, and chicken of the woods mushrooms make a great one. Sulphur shelf mushrooms have a flavor and texture reminiscent of chicken so they’re a shoe-in for a good mushroom curry. And they’re so good the carnivore in me doesn’t complain about vegetarian dinner. Here I’m using white-pored chicken of the…
Sauteed Wild Mushrooms with Chevre and Wild Herb Flatbread
Summer wild mushroom varieties have finally started to show up in my next of the woods. The first thing I made this year was a riff on one of my favorite shareable wild mushroom appetizers. It’s basically a giant pile of sauteed mushrooms with whipped cheese and a sprinkle of pickled ramps you smear over…
Golden Oyster Mushroom Steaks
Golden oysters mushrooms (Pluerotus citrinopileatus) are everywhere right now, and perfect for bringing home if you find some nice bug-free clusters. When you find those perfect clusters, one of the best oyster mushroom recipes you can make is oyster mushrooms steaks. Wild Mushroom steaks are one of my favorite things to serve as a mushroom…
Shaggy Mane Ink Compound Butter
I have a few different mushroom compound butters on this website, but shaggy mane ink butter is different. If you’re unfamiliar, shaggy manes / Coprinus comatus (also known as lawyer’s wig mushrooms or shaggy inkcaps) turn into an inky black substance as they mature. The transformation from mushroom to goo might look unappetizing, but it’s…
Amanita Muscaria: A Poisonous Edible Mushroom
With it’s bright red cap and white spots, the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) is probably the most well known of all wild mushrooms in the world. It’s also one of the only mushrooms I know that I would call edible, hallucinogenic and potentially poisonous. While many people in North America know it as the…
Huitlacoche Elotes
Huitlacoche elotes, or corn brushed with black mushroom puree with cheese and hot chili is my heartfelt, smutty love letter to Mexican street food and mushrooms. Sweet corn season is in full swing here in the Midwest: stands filled with green spears of golden kernels dot the roadsides, parking lots of neighborhood watering holes, private…
Traditional Mexican Huitlacoche Quesadilla
A simple quesadilla with huitlacoche / corn mushrooms / corn smut is probably a contender for one of the best quesadillas I’ve had, especially if you’re new to cooking with huitlacoche, or, you like it and you want to sneak it into a meal to convert people. A traditional meat substitute Huitlacoche is a traditional…
