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Hawks Wings Mushrooms – Free Download

August 3, 2014 By Erica M. Davis 8 Comments

I find and eat a lot of hawk's wings mushrooms (Sarcodon imbricatus) in the Colorado high country, and they have already started flushing this year. I've eaten them marinated and grilled, dried and reconstituted and sauteed with sauerkraut like my Polish grandmother used to do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, high altitude, mushrooms, Wild Edible Notebook Tagged With: free download, hawks wings, Sarcodon imbricatus, Wild Edible Notebook

Stuffballs on the Menu

September 20, 2013 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

This has been quite a season for puffballs—both large and small—in the Colorado high country. Though the season for giant puffballs is upon us, I wanted to first share a preparation we’ve been enjoying with small puffballs, which are still out there fruiting like crazy too. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, high altitude, mushrooms, puffballs Tagged With: Colorado, foraging, mushroom, puffball, recipes, Rocky Mountains

Old Places, New Head Spaces

September 19, 2013 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

Yesterday we revisited one of our old, favorite hikes on the shoulder of Pennsylvania Mountain above Fairplay, Colorado. We must have done a variation of that hike—sometimes ducking into the forest on game trails to encounter still-open mine holes and long-abandoned cabins, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, high altitude, mushrooms Tagged With: Boletus edulis, Colorado, foraging, mushroom, mustard, porcini, realizations, Rocky Mountains

Whistling Suillus

September 13, 2013 By Erica M. Davis 8 Comments

For years I steered clear of the edible mushroom Suillus tomentosus—not because it was difficult to identify, but because it wasn’t supposed to be very good. "Suillus tomentosus has a reputation for being a second-class edible and is best when very young,” Vera Stucky Evenson … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, mushrooms Tagged With: Colorado, foraging, mushroom, recipes, Rocky Mountains, slippery jack, Suillus, Suillus brevipes, Suillus tomentosus

Bent on pulverizing Short-stemmed Slippery Jack’s bad rap

March 7, 2013 By Erica M. Davis 10 Comments

Lately I’ve been powdering my dried wild mushrooms, batch after batch and species after species, then attempting to use the powders in various kitchen concoctions. First were the porcini (Boletus edulis), from which I made a divine sauce, followed by not-so-bad hawks wings … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, high altitude, slippery jack Tagged With: Colorado, Denver, flowers, foraging, mushroom, nettles, recipes, Rocky Mountains, short-stemmed slippery jacks, slipper jacks, Suillus brevipes, yucca

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