Plant-based Fresh and Foraged Recipes
Cheesy and flavorful, this vegan parmesan and stinging nettle pasta will leave you wanting more. Garlicky flavor, along with onions, nettles, marinated artichoke hearts, vegan parmesan, and a beautiful garnish of violets and garlic mustard flowers will make this dish not only delicious, but the …
Sweet and tart, warm, gooey Japanese knotweed and strawberry compote over freshly made oatmeal is the perfect nourishing and delicious start to your day. It’s not overly sweet (definitely in breakfast not dessert territory), and the sweetness of the strawberries is balanced with the sourness …
Warm and comforting, with a delicate, complex, yet hardy broth, this stinging nettle soup is filled with green lentils, carrots, onions, fresh stinging nettles (of course) and seasoned with miso and mushroom. The stinging nettles themselves add a lovely aromatic, herbaceous tone to the broth, …
If you’re looking to add a little sweet, a little sour, and a touch of spicy to your life, you’ll love this Japanese knotweed chutney! This vegan chutney is made with an invasive species (in the US), easy for beginners to forage, which acts as …
The search for the perfect wild edible breakfast in Spring has brought me here- to these delightful mini vegan frittatas filled with dandelion greens and invasive garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolate), along with wild garlic and any of your other favorite foraged or store bought greens …
Here is my homage to that perfect, cozy, holiday season- spruce sugar cookies with a spruce vegan buttercream frosting. Walking by a Christmas tree lot, or through an evergreen forest, you’re greeted with whiffs of sharp, sweet and refreshing spruce or pine. The smell evokes …
Smooth, rich, and deep in flavor, this vegan black walnut and maitake mushroom pâté highlights the fruity-sweetness of the black walnut, and the rich meaty flavor from the mushrooms lingers in the background. The flavor develops as the black walnut tastes decreases, and the maitake …
White, puffy buns with a smooth, shiny, glossy crust. Break inside to reveal a center filled with savory collard greens and meaty, delicious, maitake (hen of the woods) mushrooms. These maitake steamed buns are everything you might want out of these filled doughy delights- they …
Cream of mushroom soup is a beloved classic. So is cream of chicken soup. Imagine if you could have both, and have it still be vegan? From this was born my vegan cream of chicken of the woods mushroom soup. Creamy, and velvety on your …
For a Print-Friendly Recipe, Click Here Moo shu- thin, delicate pancakes wrapped around a savory shredded mixture (typically pork). But, pork not being my thing, I decided to go with a different take on the dish- milkweed mushroom moo shu. Milkweed’s thin blossoms perfectly lends …