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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

Whistling Suillus

September 13, 2013 Erica M. Davis 9 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...]

edible, mushrooms Colorado, foraging, mushroom, recipes, Rocky Mountains, slippery jack, Suillus, Suillus brevipes, Suillus tomentosus

Antelope Liver Pâtés

August 27, 2013 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

I never saw myself eating antelope, let alone antelope liver. I was a GenXer who went to a weirdo college once dubbed “the little red whorehouse on the Hudson,” where I shaved my head and flirted with vegetarianism before traveling cross country on missions of self-discovery that … [Read more...]

edible, game, high altitude, recipes antelope, Colorado, game, hunting, liver, recipes, Wyoming

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

Cattail heart & tomato salads

July 3, 2013 Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

The renowned forager and writer Euell Gibbons called cattails “the supermarket of the swamps,” and from that moniker other nicknames have emerged, among them “the Walmart of the swamps.” Although evoking Walmart doesn’t help me to connect with my joy for wild plants, the … [Read more...]

edible, recipes, spring cattails, Denver, east coast, foraging, recipes

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