Candied mushrooms? Like, with sugar?? Hard pass. Candied mushrooms are the sort of frou-frou B.S. I’d expect 15 year old me to try making, or a young cook still trying to figure out what a palette is. Honestly, I found the idea so annoying it was nearly offensive. These are mushrooms we’re talking about, I…
Black Trumpets
Simple Black Trumpet-Potato Gratin
Potatoes are a perfect partner for mushrooms since they won’t overpower them. They let the mushroom take center stage, which is exactly what I want after I spent half of the day on my hands and knees with a scissors cutting black trumpets off of the ground. One of the easiest, and tastiest things I…
Dried Black Trumpet-Ramp Butter
I’ve never met a wild mushroom butter I didn’t like, and the few variations on the simple theme (especially the fresh porcini butter) are some of the most trusty and popular recipes on this website. For the most part, you can substitute different mushrooms in the basic recipe, but this one I developed especially to…
Cerulean Black Trumpets
The best part of hunting mushrooms are the random things you stumble across. You might be getting skunked, with not a mushroom to be found, then out of nowhere a pile of somethings jump out to save the day, or, more likely, you just find a fungus that you have no idea what it is,…
Turkey Wild Rice Soup with Black Trumpets
As far as food is concerned, the main course for holidays will change here and there. One year it’s a ham for Christmas, the next year we’ll smoke a prime rib. One thing that’s constant is somewhere along the line there’s probably turkey at one of the gatherings I’ll attend, either for my girlfriend’s family…
Dried Wild Mushroom Stroganoff
Nothing said comfort food to me like a steaming hot bowl of mom’s stroganoff growing up. I don’t know what she put in hers, but more than likely it was a couple cans of cream of mushroom soup and some beef chuck. It wasn’t something we’d have every week, but it was definitely in the…
Caramelized Shallots and Black Trumpets
An ode to all things dark and sweet, here’s a recipe to up those fresh or dried black trumpet mushrooms: mixed in with some caramelized shallots and reduced down to a sweet-savory condiment for a hunk of meat, although it makes a great tart filling, coarsely chopped, too. It came about as I was looking…
Venison Rib Chops with a Black Trumpet Crust
The best part of butchering your own animals is the creativity, giving you the ability to make all sorts of things, and one of the grand daddy’s of them all is a rack of venison. If you want to know how to cut a rack, just search you tube, there’s lots of info out there….
Cisco with Fragrant Black Trumpets and Summer Greens
Here’s a simple salad you can make with wild shrooms. I made this specifically for fragrant black trumpets, but many different wild mushrooms would work here, just make sure all of your ingredients are the best you can find. It’s easy: gather a salad, cook some fish, then saute some mushrooms in a large amount…
White Pheasant Stew with Chanterelles and Black Trumpets
After Anthony Bourdain passed away I spent the following week tearing through his first book and then his cookbook, a sort of half mourning, half refresher course on one my favorite chefs I’ve always looked up to. The days after his passsing were announced for me were sullen, as they were for a lot of…
Quail with Black Trumpet Jus and Parsley Root Puree
Meal in a box dinners tout all kinds of fun origins and catch-phrases: “Chef inspired!” “Easy to make!” “Seasonal!” “Perfectly Portioned!”. A few years ago I got approached by a local food service that delivers chef-inspired menus to home cooks. I thought I’d give it a shot, even though it felt a little weird and…
Black Trumpet-Peacock Dumplings in Broth, With Sweet Corn and Amaranth
When I was butchering my peacock, I knew that working with the thighs and legs would probably be the easy part. The bird was over four years old so the breasts, even with the skin on would be temper mental and challenging to cook well. Poultry meat from an older bird is going to be…
Jacques Chibois’s Carbonara of Chanterelles and Black Trumpets
Getting to meet one of your personal heroes is a great experience. Since I’m a food nerd, most of my heroes are chef’s or personalities somewhere in the industry, with the exception of Marcus Arelius. When I went to Provence last year, I had the chance to eat at Jacques Chibois, whose work I’ve been…