Plant-based Fresh and Foraged Recipes
It’s spring! Time to cook up some spruce tips. Today we’re going to make soft, pillowy, olive oil infused focaccia bread, topped with salty, briny, crispy capers and citrusy, pine-flavored spruce tips. Add a little garlic and smoked flaky sea salt, and you’ve got an …
Tart, sweet. and cooling, this Japanese knotweed jam takes no time to make, and has a dynamic, complex flavor despite only using four ingredients! Thickened with chia seeds, you don’t need to worry about your jam getting to the right temperature and setting right, the …
Bright, crisp, and refreshing, this magnolia blossom sushi has just the most amazing textures and flavors. Rich creaminess from the avocados, crisp freshness from cucumbers, that touch of onion from the chives, and the star of the show, peppery, gingery, acidic pickled magnolia petals. All …
Light, fresh, and peppery, these pickled magnolia petals are a wonderful foraged condiment to add to you refrigerator. These beautiful, foraged pickles are delicate and fresh, perfect on sushi, in sandwiches, salads, with rice, mix in a “tuna” or egg salad, top burgers, mix in …
It’s spring time, so let’s make stinging nettle kimchi! This spicy, umami, salty, funky, herbaceous, fermented goodness can be made in about 15 minutes, and then left on your counter to develop that amazing fermented flavor. Enjoy the best of spring foraging with a little …
I’ve never been a huge fan of root beer, until I tried root beer with sassafras- or as I call it, real root beer. Sassafras is a tree native to eastern America, and it’s the original root in root beer. Get that amazing spiced, aromatic, …
An expected part of the Thanksgiving table is that sweet, tart, pop of color- I’m talking, of course, of cranberry sauce! Personally, canned is not really an option for me as homemade is SO MUCH BETTER. Just not even comparable really. But this year I’m …
Ever wanted to try a vegan French dip sandwich? This one doesn’t taste like a traditional French dip, but it gives you all the same feels. It’s made with thinly cut, hearty maitake mushroom, a flavorful, stretchy vegan cheese, all placed on a crispy French …
What’s better than a noodle? I’m definitely a carb fan myself, and there are some days where nothing but pasta will do. This pasta is enrobed in a thick and creamy, savory, mushroom sauce. It’s our take on a Russian classic, beef stroganoff. Instead we’re …
We’ve got a quick and easy shrimp of the woods recipe for you all today- because sometimes after a day of foraging, doing a lot of work for dinner is just not going to happen. So here we have it- honee garlic aborted entoloma! This …