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Yellowfoot Chanterelles

Yellowfoot Chanterelle Lefse

Lefse with yellowfoot chanterelles sauerkraut and swedish cheese(16)

When I think of the cuisine of my Nordic ancestors, I don’t usually think of mushrooms, and that’s a mistake. Scandinavia is home to many similar varieties of mushrooms that we have in the Midwest: chanterelles, murklor, and even matsutake! Lefse with chanterelles, sauerkraut, and hushallsost cheese is one of the most delicious examples of…

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Hot and Sour Soup with Wood Ears and Yellowfeet

Hot and sour soup with wood ears (17)

I’ve been saving a bag of wood ear mushrooms my friend from Forest Mushrooms gave me the last time I saw him for a good batch of hot and sour soup for months. Wood ears are special in that, after rehydrating they’re nearly indistinguishable from their fresh state. Finally I got around to using them…

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Yellowfoot Chanterelle Broth with Tiny Pasta

Yellowfoot chanterelle soup recipe with pasta

Midwestern yellowfoot chanterelles are small–no doubt about it. As such, their the sort of ingredient that is so difficult to source in volume as to make them near impossible to find on a restaurant menu, no matter the cost. They’re literally a chef’s dream, and I made one of the best wild mushroom soups I’ve…

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Linguine with White Clam Sauce and Chanterelles

Linguine with white manilla clam sauce and chanterelle mushrooms

If you pick chanterelles you know the excitement that comes with the first buttons of the year, and picking what recipe you’ll make with the first teeny guys is something I really look forward to. Bright egg-yellow, rock hard wine corks that squeak like cheese curds when you chew them whole, giving off whiffs of…

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Lobster With Yellowfoot Chanterelles and Dandelion Purée

Lobster with yellowfoot chanterelles and spinach-dandelion puree

A few years ago my girlfriend asked me the type of question that lets you know someone loves you: “Sweetheart, if you could eat anywhere in Provence, where would you go?” I knew the answer right away, even though I had never really thought I’d be able to go: La Bastide St. Antoine in Grasse,…

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Bavette Steak with Chanterelle Mushroom Pan Sauce

Bavette steak with 5 chanterelles

Grass fed beef is all the rage, and customers really think they want it. Ethically you do, but there’s a disconnect between the beef most people have eaten all their lives, and grass fed beef. In short, grass fed beef is lean and tough-it’s supposed to be. This poses problems when diners expect it to…

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Wild Mushrooms With Garlic And Parsley

Wild Mushrooms With Garlic And Parsley

There are some recipes so timeless that they’re known across borders and cultures with the only change being their name. Wild mushrooms with garlic and parsley, or persillade, is one of those dishes.  In France, this would be called mushrooms with persillade. In Italian it’s known as mushrooms “la loro morte” roughly “cooked to their…

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Fried Oyster Mushroom Croutons

Oyster mushroom croutons

If the restaurant were to fail, finding a way to mass produce these would make me rich I tell you. They’re not so much a crouton as they are crispy, deep fried mushrooms, but calling them deep fried mushrooms would insinuate that they’re served hot, which they aren’t. Personally, the word “deep fried mushroom” conjures…

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Northern Pike Dumplings in Yellowfoot Chanterelle Consomme

yellowfoot chanterelle consomme with northern pike mousseline dumplings

Here’s a refined, elegant recipe for using nothern pike and yellowfoot chanterelles together. The Lyon region of France is famous for a recipe using pike made into fish mousse dumplings, called quenelles de brochet. Since pike is filled with tiny bones, fileting it out to be boneless results in very thin pieces of fish that…

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Yellowfoot Chanterelle Vodka

yellowfoot chanterelle vodka

I love yellowfoot chanterelles, they’re pretty, petite, and fragile. I only know of one place to pick them in Minnesota, its a mixed woods forest up north, with lots of rolling hills and a wide amount of varying terrain. In a couple places there are wet spots with puddles and tiny ponds. These damp spots…

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Fried Perch with Peas, Ham and Yellowfoot Chanterelle Sauce

Perch With Yellowfoot Mushrooms, Tongue, Peas, and Ramps

The combination of peas, meat, mushrooms onions is a tried and true stand one. At an Italian restaurant I used to work at, we had very popular menu item called “Fettuccine Bosciola”(meaning in the style of the forest). This recipe is a fun play on the traditional ingredients, using them as the basis for a…

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Yellowfoot Chanterelle Soup with Ramp Gnocchi

Wild Yellowfoot Mushroom and Pheasant Soup with Ramp Gnocchi

I went on my first successful forage of the year today. Since it is early, I wanted to go somewhere that was wet, and with not a lot of tree cover. To the swamps I went. Luckily, I was right and I was able to bring back a decent little bag of treats. With the…

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Yellowfoot Chanterelles

Yellowfoot chanterelle mushrooms or winter chanterelles

Yellowfoot chanterelles are another great, easy to identify mushroom to add to your basket. Like their cousins, the golden chanterelles, yellowfeet (formerly Cantharellus tubaeformis, now Craterellus tubaeformis and close relatives) have a pleasant and slightly fruity smell, although, like hedgehogs, these are definitely more mushroomy in flavor. They’re very delicate, and they will get crushed…

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Some nice wild enoki clones from @unkle_fungus Can Some nice wild enoki clones from @unkle_fungus Cant wait until these start popping up when the snow melts. The difference between the coloration of wild ones (pic 1) and cultivated that are white from the lack of sun (pic 2) is always interesting to compare. (The cultivated ones are a different species of Flammulina too). 

We’re really lucky to have such a vibrant community of small, local mushroom growers and related makers. Feel free to tag your favorite you like or one I should know about in the comments. 

#enokimushroom #mushroomgrowers #flammulinavelutipes #blanche #allthemushroomtags #wintermushrooms
Celebrated my birthday last night with a few stiff Celebrated my birthday last night with a few stiff spruce’n’sodas. The spruce tip liquor I collaborated on with @ida_graves_distillery drinks like a mildly piney gin. Dangerously easy to drink. #sprucetips #craftliquor #drinkatree #itsmybirthdaybitches #im25again
Social media can be a wall-to-wall, endless string Social media can be a wall-to-wall, endless string of triumphs. We all know reality isn’t like that, so with the snow melting here, I thought I’d share a funny maple season fail with you (at the time it was not funny).

I was making maple soda out of sap, sweetfern and syrup that I like. I’d kept the glass bottle of soda in the fridge for a couple weeks, waiting for a good time to get to it. I’d started the mother batch with a pinch of commercial champagne yeast, which is vigorous stuff. 

One night I got up and poured myself a glass of water, and sleepily forgot to close the fridge all the way, which increased the temp. A few hours later I woke up to what sounded like a grenade going off. 

The bottle exploded and the inside of the fridge, all its contents, and the floor were covered with sticky maple juice, and I spent the next two hours mopping and picking out shards of glass that had embedded themselves like shrapnel in the walls of the fridge. 

Now, I use plastic restaurant cambros to make carbonated drinks. 💫

#fermentationfails #fail #soda #fermentation #explosions #dontrythisathome
My chief editorial assistant about to do backflips My chief editorial assistant about to do backflips for smoked goat kidneys. 

If you would have asked me a few years ago if I would see myself writing recipes (and filming videos) on making dog treats I would have laughed. 

But, working with @shepherdsongfarm, trying to figure out creative, economical methods for butchery and whole carcass utilization for lamb and goat has pushed my creativity into new places. Grateful for that. 💫

If you get down on kidneys, I have a good version for humans on my site too. A good piece of charcuterie to know. 

Hand model @pgerasimo 

#grassfed #goat #eatmoregoat #kidneys #offal #dogtreats #rescuepitbull #editorialassistant
7pm ET tonight on @the_outdoor_channel I take @dan 7pm ET tonight on @the_outdoor_channel I take @danielvitalis hunting for mushrooms and pigeons in WI, then I cook dinner on the farm for @wild.fed, his outdoors series that shows that wild food is much more than just meat. 

If you don’t have the outdoor channel, you could use the free trial of @frndlytv that will let you watch it live. 

Finished dishes I did were pigeon brochettes with rams bacon, sunflower roulades and wild cherry sauce and pigeon, sweet corn and wild mushroom stew. 

#mushroomhunting #wildfed #foragerchef #outdoorchannel #pigeon #foraging
After watching an old episode of Munchies (see You After watching an old episode of Munchies (see YouTube/Vice) I scribbled down a prep for yellow foot chanterelles a Swedish food truck was making. They took flatbread (tonnebrod, but I use lefse, because 🇳🇴💪) piled high with hot yellowfeet and fresh kraut, mayo, Västerbotten cheese (fontina or Hushållsost are ok subs). 

It’s one of the best ways I’ve had yellowfeet, like a funky, cheese, Nordic burrito. Just killer. 

I even forgot my lefse and served some to family in a couple BS flour tortillas Grandma had (heresy, IK) —still didn’t suck. 

Props to @ingebretsens in Mpls for making their own lefse since my Norwegian Grandma wasn’t  around. I channeled her though. 

#midwestwinter #lefse #lefseforlife #youbetcha #oleandlenawouldbeproud #yellowfootchanterelles #wildmushrooms
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