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,…
Yellowfoot Chanterelles
Bavette Steak with Chanterelle Mushroom Pan Sauce
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…
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. In France, this would be called mushrooms with persillade. In Italian it’s known as mushrooms “la loro morte” roughly “cooked to their death”, a romantically macabre way of describing something. In Spain mushrooms are cooked…
Wild 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…
Northern Pike Dumplings in Yellowfoot Chanterelle Consomme
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…
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…
Perch, Ramps, Peas, Tongue, And Yellowfoot Chanterelle Sauce
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…
Yellowfoot Chanterelle-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…
Yellowfoot 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…