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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

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

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