Congratulations, you’ve found what is probably the most popular recipe on this website. This is my original chicken fried chicken of the woods, back from before I even ran my own restaurant. It’s often plagiarized, but never replicated—accept no substitutions. 🙂 We just got a big delivery of chicken of the woods or sulfphur shelf…
Recipes for Fresh Wild Mushrooms
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.
Pickled Chicken Of The Woods
Once the mushrooms start to come up in the summer, chickens are some of the first you’ll see. After going out and hunting over the course of the season though, they can almost get a little annoying. You pray for a nice patch of chanterelles or hedgehogs, but all you keep finding is chickens, and…
Wild Mushroom Confit
Traditionally, confit denotes meat that has been marinated in salt and herbs, then slowly and gently cooked in its own fat, the end result being a nice and meltingly tender piece of meat. For this preparati0n I use the word confit to express the end result and texture, soft juicy, and full of flavor. Hands…
Morels “A la Normande” With Black Spring Truffle.
This is one of the most decadent ways I have ever prepared morels. The inspiration for this recipe came from reading up on morel’s in one of my favorite books: Mushrooms Demystified, by David Arora. In the section on morels, he says: ” I request you, generous reader, to deliver any and all morels you…
Classic Fried or Breaded Morels
Any mushroom hunter worth their salt should know a fine fried morel recipe. People will argue until the end of time as to what method is the best: some swear by saltines, some use just flour, some like egg batter. Hands down, the favorite of my friends and I is a basic flour-egg-flour method. As…