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    Foraged Food Recipes

    Wild Mushroom Recipes

    • Mushroom Soup Recipes
    • Mushroom Appetizers and Starters
    • Mushroom Entrees
    • Vegetarian and Vegan Mushroom Recipes

    By Mushroom Type

    • Lobster Mushrooms
    • Chanterelles
    • Black Trumpets
    • Hen of the Woods
    • Chicken of the Woods
    • Honey Mushrooms
    • Pheasant Back
    • Morels
    • Matsutake
    • Cauliflower Mushrooms
    • Porcini
    • Saffron Milk Cap

    All Wild Mushroom Types

    Foraged Greens, Herbs, Nuts and Flowers

    By Type of Wild Edible

    • Spruce Tips
    • Stalks and Shoots
    • Leafy Greens
    • Nuts and Starches
    • Flowers and Buds
    • Ramps or Wild Leeks
    • Wild Herbs and Spices
    • Garden

    Recipes with Leafy Greens

    • Wild spinach cake recipe made with lambs quarters
      Wild Spinach Cake
    • Turkish nettle recipe with lor cheese
      Turkish Nettles With Cheese (Isirgan Buğulaması)
    • Classic Stinging Nettle Soup or nasselsopa
      Classic Stinging Nettle Soup
    • Borani esfenaj recipe with Lamb's Quarters, yogurt and spices
      Wild Spinach Dip (Borani Esfenaj)

    Common Edible Wild Plants

    • Nettles
    • Lambsquarters
    • Verdolagas or Purslane
    • Watercress
    • Amaranth
    • Dandelions
    • Burdock
    • Milkweed

    Foraged Fruits

    • Chokecherries
    • Highbush Cranberries
    • Wild Plums
    • Blueberries and Huckleberries
    Dried edible hackberries or Celtis occidentalis in a ceramic bowl
    Hackberries
    a bowl of fresh nannyberry fruit (Viburnum lentago) in a bowl surrounded by nannyberry leaves of different colors.
    Nannyberries

    All Wild Fruit Recipes

    Fermentation

    • Foraged vinegars: wild plum, berry, and maple sap vinegars
      Fruit Scrap Vinegar
    • Hosta Shoot Kimchi recipe
      Hosta Shoot Kimchi
    • Mugolio, a traditional pine cone syrup recipe
      Mugolio: Pine Cone Syrup
    • Brine fermented japanese knotweed recipe
      Fermented Knotweed Pickles

    All Fermentation Recipes

    Condiments

    • Homemade Ramp Cream Cheese
    • A dish of maple dressing next to a bottle of maple syrup.
      Lucia's Dijon-Maple Vinaigrette / Dressing
    • Homemade Agrumato / Lemon Olive Oil
    • A jar of tartufata truffle sauce next to sliced fresh Bianchetto truffles and a knife.
      Salsa Tartufata (Mushroom-Truffle Sauce)
    • Hot Carolina Reaper or Ghost Pepper Salt
    • Lovage Sauce / Garlic & Herb Aioli
    • A dish of caramelized onions and mushrooms next to a large mushroom on a cutting board.
      Classic Caramelized Onions and Mushrooms
    • Deckle steak or spinalis with parsley root puree and wild ramp butter.
      Parsley Root Puree

    All Condiments

    Meat and Game

    • Venison
    • Small Game
    • Poultry
    • Fish and Seafood

    Charcuterie

    • Smoked chicken andouille sausage on a tray next to a knife.
      Homemade Smoked Chicken Andouille Sausage
    • A toast point spread with rillettes and preserves next to a crock of preserves, sourdough bread and a spatula.
      Rillettes
    • A coil of wild boar sausage on a cutting board next to a knife.
      Wild Boar Sausage
    • Beef bacon sliced with a knife on a wooden cutting board.
      Beef Bacon

    Offal and Organ Meats

    • Venison liver pate recipe
      Venison Liver Pate
    • Venison feet or trotters for cooking
      How to Cook with Venison Trotters (Deer Feet)
    • Moroccan brains recipe with eggs, tomato and harissa
      Moroccan Brains with Eggs, Tomato and Harissa
    • A close up image of a baby pig head for making suckling pig headcheese
      Classic Pork / Hogs Headcheese (Fromage de Tête)

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