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Stuffballs on the Menu

September 20, 2013 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...]

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

Last Night’s Wild Dinner

August 3, 2013 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

Kitchen experiments take time, a luxury I didn’t have this past month until yesterday. I forgot how good it feels to get on one of my kitchen tangents and go wild cookery crazy. Plus I had a plethora of wild plants in the fridge that needed using. So I tried a couple things, some … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude bluebell, Colorado, foraging, Mentha arvensis, mint, pine nuts, porcini, puffball, recipes, Rhus trilobata, Rocky Mountains, skunkbush, sumac, vodka sauce

A Daily Diet of Puffballs and Leftover Bread

September 8, 2011 Erica M. Davis 5 Comments

Mysterious brown puffball colony in the dirt roadbed.

Looking back to the puffball entry I wrote on August 13 last year, I can’t believe how long it’s taken for my backyard colony of gem-studded puffballs (Lycoperdon perlatum) to emerge this season. Emerge they have, however (in early September, finally!), and with them a host of … [Read more...]

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

A Puffball at 12,000 Feet

July 25, 2011 Erica M. Davis 9 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

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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