Goldenrod is helpful for making salves for sore muscles, tea for your kidneys, and may be useful for respiratory woes.
I may receive a commission if you purchase something mentioned in this post. More details here. The appearance of stinging nettles in my neighborhood is exciting, because it marks the beginning of the foraging season! Last year, spring came in so late that we were desperate enough to go collect nettles that had just barely […]
Pine bark cookies happened more or less by accident in my kitchen. I know, you say, how can you just happen to make pine bark cookies? Well, let me explain. I had this idea to make
These inspiring spruce tip recipes will help you make the most of this ephemeral foraged food. Spruce tip syrup, pesto, ice cream & more!
A simple recipe for how to make hawthorn tincture using berries and vodka. Hawthorn is a red berry that gently supports heart health, and that you can forage for in autumn. You can use the volume ingredient measurements in this folk method tincture or use the 1:2 ratio measurements in the notes below. Scale the recipe up or down to suit your needs.
Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) is a common wild weed that’s both edible and medicinal. This particular weed should be in every herbalist’s medicine cabinet, and it’s easy to fo…
"Chocolate" made from the seeds of the Linden tree. Makes a little over 4 oz. It can be used in fillings, custards and dairy-based desserts.
Pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica) is a wild shrub or small tree that grows wild across Canada, North Central and the Northeastern US (Range Map). Related to chokecherry and black cherry, the small red cherry fruits
I found myself wondering, how did our ancestors in landlocked regions find salt? I know. The weird things I wonder about... It's easy enough to harvest sea salt from the ocean, but what if you're
Spruce tips have a bright, citrus flavor that works well in both savory and sweet dishes. Almost all conifer tips are edible, and the only exception is yew trees. Pine and fir tips have their own u…
Edible pine needles make very tasty cookies, drinks, and syrups! Get all of the foraged pine needle recipes you need here.
This recipe for pine bark bread comes from Sweden and uses the outer bark of a pine tree ground into a fine flour. The resulting bread is more like what most people would consider crackers.
It's my dream someday to live an entire summer on foraged food, and in many cases that will mean giving up some of my favorite treats and comfort foods. While there are many foraged coffee
It is May and I am bedazzled by the lime-green tips emerging from evergreen trees. I have been waiting patiently. First the tiny brown buds, tight fists at the tips of branches. Slowly they swell, and then papery brown coating falls away in wind or rain, revealing tender nubs of baby needles. Now they are […]
A wonderful foraged and home roasted substitute for regular coffee.
Beech nuts are tasty, nutrient-dense nuts produced in the fall by beech trees (Fagus sp.). The nut husks are incredibly distinctive, and it's hard not to stop and pick up the brightly colored velcro covered
Learn how to make chaga tea at home, with this guide covering everything from foraging to brewing. Chaga tea makes a great healthy alternative to coffee!
Edible pine needles make very tasty cookies, drinks, and syrups! Get all of the foraged pine needle recipes you need here.
Walk into any gift shop in Vermont and you'll find shelves of maple syrup, alongside t-shirts that boast "I'd tap that" with a maple tree front and center. We love syrup, we love tapping, so
The perfect little foraged appetizers- wild field garlic pancakes! Like scallion pancakes, but you don't need to pay for scallions.
Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) grows just about anywhere and everywhere all across the eastern part of the United States. All it needs is an abandoned field, highway median or roadside ditch and it's happy as
Have you ever had a smell instantly remind you of something? The smell of a freshly dug sassafras root, dirt…
I love my steam juicer. It's handsome, it's shiny, and it does its job exactly the way it's supposed to. And that makes my life easer. What's not to love?
Foraged greens are the first of the spring vegetables, coming in even earlier than asparagus, according to Rebecca Wood. Leave it up to this resilient weed to want to be the first and strongest to poke its green leafy head out amidst the cold! Lately, and over the past couple of years, it hasn't been unusual to see these nutrient-packed, bright, long-leafed greens hitting local groceries and farmer's markets. Dandelion greens are known for their bitter taste and vary in their degree of bitterness, especially wild versions. I find that adding a little hot vinegar or apple cider vinegar right at the end of this dish helps take away some of the bitterness. Ingredients: Large bunch dandelion greens, rinsed of dirt and rough chopped with stems 2 tablespoons olive oil 5 garlic cloves, sliced thin 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper 1/2 cup vegetable broth 2 tablespoons pine nuts Juice from 1/2 lemon Salt and pepper to taste Splash of hot pepper vinegar sauce (apple cider vinegar can be used instead) Heat olive oil over medium heat until shimmering in a saucepan. Add the garlic and crushed red pepper. Cook, stirring frequently just until the garlic starts to brown. Add the chopped dandelion greens in and toss well to coat. Pour in the vegetable broth and simmer, stirring occasionally over medium heat until the broth is almost completely absorbed. Toss in pine nuts, lemon juice, then add the vinegar and mix to incorporate. Serve hot or warm as a side dish — or make it a meal by serving with a couple of fried eggs. I am so looking forward to everything spring has coming. What are you most looking forward to? E.A.T. local E.A.T. well
Cookies are comfort food at its best, but how do you make cookies with 100% wild ingredients? Here's how to make cookies after the zombie apocalypse hits. A few years back I remember running across
Dandelion greens have made their way into the supermarket, but what about the roots? Dandelion roots are both nutritious and edible. They can be foraged in the early spring before the p…
Some kids go through a mac 'n' cheese phase (it's something they can cook themselves), and some kids go through a cereal phase (doesn't require cooking at all). Me? Knorr Instant Parma Rosa Sauce was a childhood fave. It’s embarrassing but true. To this day, I'm not sure what is even in &
This recipe is featured in our Recipe of the Day Newsletter. Sign up for it here to have our test kitchen-approved recipes delivered to your inbox! I'm a bit of a restaurant snob, self-admittedly. I love to eat, but I also love to cook so if I’m going to drop a pretty penny on a dinner out, it better be worth it. Since moving to the suburbs, it’s gotten even trickier to find a restaurant that I deem worth the schlep (often with a toddler in tow) and better than our standard chopped-style “WTF are we having for dinner” meals I miraculously pull out of thin air on the daily. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not tooting my own horn. Those meals often take the form of a humble egg sandwich or some version of 10 minute lettuce wraps, but at least I know those are tasty and will be made with wholesome ingredients. That all changes when I cross over the Bourne Bridge (same goes for the Whitestone Bridge, but that’s a restaurant story for a different day!). When I’m on the Cape Water Street Kitchen in Woods Hole, MA is a must-visit. They have a seasonally inspired menu, gorgeous views, amazing cocktails, funky wines and a familiar atmosphere that makes putting in the effort to go out truly worth it. I’ve never had a dish I didn’t like there, but the menu item that is always top of my list this the Radish Butter served with warm homemade Sourdough. At 5 bucks, I can say it’s the best money I ever spent. It’s creamy, salty, crunchy and a tad bit spicy from the fresh locally-grown radishes. It’s my philosophy on cooking and eating in a nutshell (or butter dish); use quality ingredients and prepare them simply. This radish butter is my ode to Water Street! It certainly is not the same without the view, or fresh ocean air but it comes pretty close! I’ll probably whip up a batch for dinner the next time my husband suggests we hit the local average pizza joint. Recipe and Headnote Molly Adams
I found myself wondering, how did our ancestors in landlocked regions find salt? I know. The weird things I wonder about... It's easy enough to harvest sea salt from the ocean, but what if you're
Goldenrod is a stunning natural dye plant, an edible and medicinal herb, and a nectary flower for pollinators.
Step-by-step method for making Elderflower jellies yourself.
Winter is officially here, and that means soup season has also arrived! For myself, soups are those incredible one pot meals that can come together in anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour, without slaving over the stove. While living in the UK, it was quite common to have smoked fish in a variety o
Want to lift your dinner game? This Marinated Sumac Tofu recipe is full of healthy ingredients and is sure to be a dinner favourite in any household.Recipe by Ashleigh Calder @innerpickle_
Wild garlic soup using the best wild garlic the season has to offer. Foraged fresh leaves picked that morning making the freshest of soups.
I started the concept of fridge foraging because I wanted to show people that you could make delicious food by just using the ingredients already in your house. I was so sick of seeing recipes that necessitated 4 trips to different grocery stores and the use of unconventional ingredients that will o
A family favourite in our household.....a creamy and easy soup which needs nothing more than good crusty rolls or home-baked bread to serve with it. This travels well in a Thermos flask making it an ideal and comforting soup to take on a picnic. This recipe is based on a Historical 16th/17th Century recipe, no milk was added then - it was made with stock only.
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September is the perfect time to forage hazelnuts. Here’s how to find them, prep them and cook them Early autumn is a great time to go foraging, with blackberries, hazelnuts and mushrooms all growing in abundance. Hazelnuts, in particular, are easy to find, growing in abundance in hedgerows and woods around the UK (you might […]
Learn how to make chaga tea at home, with this guide covering everything from foraging to brewing. Chaga tea makes a great healthy alternative to coffee!
Elderberries are an important part of how I keep my family healthy all winter long. Elderberry oxymel, syrup, jelly, vinegar, mead...the list goes on. They're easy to pick off the bushes in large clusters, and
Chaga mushrooms are a centuries-old wild foraged remedy for everything from high blood pressure to cancer. They fetch a high price in stores or online, but they're a common, easy to identify mushroom that grows all
