Baking coffee cake on a sunny morning I can’t believe that May has had such consistently cold and wet weather. But, when the house is cold in the morning, I like to warm it up by turning on the oven to bake something. Sometimes I bake a fruit crisp or muffins, or an egg casserole….
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Acorn flour tortillas: another gluten free, grain free tortilla
Harvesting the wild acorns Being wild food enthusiasts, we have had many interesting experiences with attempting to eat acorns. Many of them ended up wormy and bitter. In an attempt to make our own acorn flour in Philadelphia 17 years ago we harvested a couple trash bags full of acorns from a city park. If…
Mushroom Bloom
Mushroom blocks are offered by many online retailers. We bought ours from FungiPerfecti, the brainchild of mycologist Paul Stamets. Some other fungi retailers that carry different varieties and different tools for DIY mycology are fieldforest.net, and gourmetmushrooms.com. I bought my wife four varieties for her birthday in February. Two have started to grow mushrooms already,…
Quack Grass Horror! Invasion of the Soil Snatchers!
Spread that Eurasian Love Around One of the wild plants that we can’t say enough swear-words about is the undesirable weed from Europe and Asia called in the Latin, Elymus repens, or in the vulgar tongue, “The @#$!@ plant that ate my garden!” Or just plain Quack Grass, for you non-gardeners who would rather not…
Maple Syrup Season: Our Favorite Maple Syrup Recipes
Maple Syrup Season Last years maple syrup production was a rollercoaster. The first sap flow started in February, and it stopped and started multiple times due to the variable weather. In mid-April, some of the taps were frozen. Near the end of April the maple leaf buds started to swell and the season was finally…
Burdock, Turkey, and Bok Choy Recipe with Sweet Potato: Starting out the new year with healthy foods
Burdock, turkey and bok choy recipe: A healthy start to the new year. Everyone seems to have a resolution to eat healthy in the New Year. That means something different for everyone with different diets and eating plans. But, I think most can agree that fewer processed foods and more colorful vegetables are good for…
Delicata squash stuffed with highbush cranberry wild rice stuffing
Stuffed delicata squash I just ate the best meal I have ever lunch-boxed to work! Delicata squash stuffed with highbush cranberry and wild rice stuffing was amazing. Delicata squash was much sweeter than I expected making a nice contrast for the sour cranberries and the rustic wild rice. And, not in the recipe title, the…
Wild harvested greens for the dinner plate
Can you identify the greens in my dinner? We were out of veggies, and not going to the store until next morning, so my husband came back with some wild harvested greens for the dinner plate. When we do a wild harvest my husband gravitates usually toward tree leaves and bitter greens. Often there will…
Trail food: Our hiking and backpacking harvest
Photos of our Trail food.
Morels while mowing
A little gift from the effort of mowing the lawn. These morels, might look a normal size in the picture but they were actually as big as a hand. (See the spoon for reference.)
Mother’s Day and Morels
Morel season is about the same time of year as Mother’s Day where we live. On Mother’s Day weekend our small community throws its annual mushroom festival which usually marks the beginning of morel season in our area. For these three days people from all around the surrounding areas come out to celebrate this weird…
Maple syrup: Preparing for the harvest
It’s that time of year, mid winter, when we start to run out of last year’s maple syrup and start thinking about the upcoming harvest. Now It’s not quite time to harvest the syrup yet, but with wild foods you always want to prepare ahead so you don’t miss your harvest window. In the past…