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Spruce tip yogurt sauce

June 8, 2013 Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

Spruce tips—those soft, light-green new tips that grow on spruce (Picea spp.) in spring—have become wildly popular lately, and I’m still sleuthing about trying to find out where that idea on the culinary use of spruce tips came from. Maybe the cookbook Noma: Time and Place in … [Read more...]

edible Colorado, Denver, foraging, kochia, recipes, Rocky Mountains, spruce, urban foraging

More Whitetop Kitchen Experiments

May 30, 2013 Erica M. Davis 4 Comments

The one nice thing about invasive, edible plant species is that there are more than enough specimens available for kitchen tests, and you don’t feel like you’re dishonoring nature’s gifts when something goes wrong. Like in my recent countertop honey infused with whitetop … [Read more...]

edible, invasive Colorado, Denver, foraging, hoary cress, mustard, recipes, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging, whitetop

Whitetop mustard bud clusters

May 23, 2013 Erica M. Davis 8 Comments

I’d been meaning to try eating whitetop, aka hoary cress (Cardaria spp., Lepidium draba or related Lepidium sp.)—an invasive plant targeted for eradication in many parts of the West. It saddens me to see whitetop taking over entire fields; I always wonder what plants might grow … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, May, spring Colorado, foraging, hoary cres, invasive, recipes, Rocky Mountains, whitetop

Baked Curly Dock Chips a la Kale Chips

May 20, 2013 Erica M. Davis 4 Comments

Who needs kale chips when you can have dock chips? For this project—a bastardization of two online recipes for kale chips (Food Network, Allrecipes), I used young curly dock leaves (Rumex crispus) foraged a couple days ago in the outskirts of Fort Collins, Colorado. With the … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, recipes Colorado, Denver, dock, foraging, recipes

Black Greasewood with Tofu Cubes

May 19, 2013 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

Last night I all but destroyed the kitchen, scurrying about cooking up a wild feast like a person possessed. It felt good to be back home experimenting with wild ingredients again after our recent road trip to parts west, to channel all that inspiration from finding exciting new … [Read more...]

edible black greasewood, foraging, Nevada, recipes, Rocky Mountains, West

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Thomas Elpel’s ‘Foraging the Mountain West’

Dina Falconi’s ‘Foraging & Feasting’

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Rebecca Lerner’s ‘Dandelion Hunter’

John Kallas’ ‘Edible Wild Plants’

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