I bounced around Italian kitchens for years and I picked up a few tricks and special dishes. Cappellini alla Checca with Wild Mushrooms is a contender for my all-time favorite pasta, and I’ve been meaning to share it with you since I started this website nearly 10 years ago. This was hands-down the best selling…
Fresh Mushroom Recipes
Fresh mushrooms work in two basic ways: as the main ingredient in a recipe, or as a supporting character working in the background. Here you'll find a little bit of everything.
Brown Butter-Sage Hen of the Woods
Tender fronds of hen of the woods (Grifola frondosa or maitake) cooked slowly until they just start to brown with butter, sage, garlic and wine make for a good seasonal side dish you can add to all kinds of things. The basic idea is that you peel the mushroom apart to make long, elegant fronds…
Wild Mushroom Chebureki (Crimean Fried Pastries)
Chebureki are a traditional pastry from the Crimean peninsula (Slava Ukraini). Typically they’re made from a lean, thin dough and filled with ground meat, onions and herbs, finished by deep frying to a golden brown. I had my first taste of them during a stage at St. Paul’s Moscow on the Hill under Chef Gary…
Warm Chanterelle and Wild Rice Salad
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…
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…
