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Bent on pulverizing Short-stemmed Slippery Jack’s bad rap

March 7, 2013 Erica M. Davis 12 Comments

Lately I’ve been powdering my dried wild mushrooms, batch after batch and species after species, then attempting to use the powders in various kitchen concoctions. First were the porcini (Boletus edulis), from which I made a divine sauce, followed by not-so-bad hawks wings … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, slippery jack Colorado, Denver, flowers, foraging, mushroom, nettles, recipes, Rocky Mountains, short-stemmed slippery jacks, slipper jacks, Suillus brevipes, yucca

Eating yucca flowers

May 28, 2012 Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

On Memorial Day last year we were still snowboarding at A-Basin, the snow drifts in the backyard were up to the life-sized metal deer’s neck, and the yuccas down Denver-way waited until late June to bloom. This year, the snow is gone except for a handful of high elevation chutes … [Read more...]

edible, May, spring Colorado, Denver, foraging, recipes, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging, yucca

Stir Fry on the Wild Side

June 29, 2011 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

A delicious and attractive wild stir fry.

Yesterday I experienced the somewhat unique problem of having too many bags of wild edible plants in my refrigerator and not enough “normal” food with which to make lunch. So I improvised—and it worked out surprisingly well. When In Doubt, Stir Fry  My most successful stir … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, June bluebell, Colorado, fireweed, foraging, mertensia, recipes, Rocky Mountains, yucca

Southwestern fried yucca flowers

June 26, 2011 Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

Southwestern Fried Yucca Flowers

Late last summer, during a whirlwind West Coast visit, I found myself on an unlikely hike through prickly pear cacti up a Malibu mountainside in a private ranch of rented houses to a pool that was clothing-optional on Wednesdays. (Spending time with my friend Reina is always an … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, medicinal Colorado, Denver, flowers, foraging, recipes, Rocky Mountains, yucca

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Oregon grape delight

Wild seed drink

Quickweed greens

The delicious ‘wild wonderberry’

Three pennycress mustard recipes

Land caviar from kochia seeds

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Wild tarragon in the weeds

Sprouted goosefoot flour

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Samuel Thayer’s ‘Incredible Wild Edibles’

Hank Shaw’s ‘Buck, Buck, Moose’

Katrina Blair’s ‘Wild Wisdom of Weeds’

Thomas Elpel’s ‘Foraging the Mountain West’

Dina Falconi’s ‘Foraging & Feasting’

Ellen Zachos’ ‘Backyard Foraging’

Rebecca Lerner’s ‘Dandelion Hunter’

John Kallas’ ‘Edible Wild Plants’

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