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Cow parsnip at every meal

July 31, 2011 Erica M. Davis 7 Comments

A cow parsnip carpet far as the feet could walk.

I woke up yesterday morning and cooked my very first quiche, in which the principal ingredient was—you guessed it—cow parsnip! We had it for breakfast; we had the leftovers for dinner; and then we had cow parsnip candy sticks for dessert. For me, there is simply no getting tired … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude Boletus edulis, candy, Colorado, cow parsnip, foraging, king bolete, mushroom, porcini, quiche

A Puffball at 12,000 Feet

July 25, 2011 Erica M. Davis 10 Comments

A Colorado puffball at 12,000 feet, July 23, 2011.

Not everyone is so enthralled by puffball mushrooms. Well, by the size, maybe—for accounts of huge Calvatia boonianas and their proud finders grace newspapers perhaps more than any other mushroom, says Vera Stucky Evenson in Mushrooms of Colorado (1997), a publication of the … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude Colorado, foraging, mushroom, puffball, recipes, Rocky Mountains

Paean for a Mushroom Prophecy Come True

July 23, 2011 Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

The little muschroom guy who's growing outside our house. Photo by Gregg Davis.

I received a happy email regarding mushrooms this morning from a new friend, who predicted they would be popping up near us in the Colorado High Country within the week. She herself has already found a bolete and some oyster mushrooms and was newly back from foraging giant … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude Colorado, foraging, hyperreality, mushroom, Rocky Mountains

Spring Foraging in the Hudson River Valley

May 27, 2011 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

Ubiquitous ferns past the edible fiddlehead stage.

It’s been a number of years since I made it out east in the spring—and what a spring it is! Apparently it’s been raining more than usual, such that the outdoors is carpeted in lush new green growth the likes of which I seldom see. Coming from the Colorado high country, where snow … [Read more...]

edible cooler bag, east coast, fiddleheads, foraging, garlic mustard, invasive, morels, mushroom, New York, non-native

Mushroom Identification Guides

October 10, 2010 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

Certainly there are thousands of mushroom guides from which to choose, but I thought I'd start by giving an overview of my early impressions of the following guides, all of which I received for my birthday from family and friends after my discovery of a big puffball sparked this … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, useful info book reviews, Colorado, foraging, mushroom, mycophagist, puffball, Rocky Mountains

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