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A foraging family in southeastern Connecticut searching for wild edible food to identify, photograph, and create recipes. Healthy, organic, wild food.
A recipe for puffball mushroom caviar.
Chef Alan Bergo shares some thoughts on hunting and cooking puffball mushrooms
Classic fried puffball mushrooms are a Midwestern classic, and one of the first recipes you should try for these wild mushrooms.
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This is a young pair of Common Puffballs (Lycoperdon perlatum) photographed at the Historic Occoneechee Speedway Trail, Orange Co., NC. The warts tend to fall off as the puffball grows, often leaving a reticulated pattern on the outer surface. At maturity a little spore-disersing hole (= ostiole) forms at the top and the outer covering or peridium becomes papery and waterproof. Many of us have played with puffballs, touching them lightly and watching the spores puff from the ostiole, but in nature the more common puff stimulus is falling raindrops. In 1944 P.H. Gregory used high speed Schlieren cinematography to study the minimum puff-inducing size and velocity of laboratory-made 'raindrops'. He concluded that in an average intensity rain event totaling 0.4 inches, ca. 2,250 raindrops of sufficient energy to cause a puff would hit a 1cm square horizontal surface. He also found that the impact of a single raindrop, depending on its size and velocity, can release from 0.9 to 15 million spores per puff! Here's a link to this interesting paper: www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59351/0032/001/0011.htm
If you’re avoiding processed grains/flours or lowering your carbs, or none of the above and just love mindblowing unique food, you’re going to want to try this giant puffball mushroom pizza. Calvatia gigantea is a white, round mushroom commonly found in meadows, fields, and deciduous forests all over the world, and hence the name they…
The edible Giant Puffball is absolutely fantastic shredded and baked in this quiche-like Crustless Puffball Pie.
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A foraging family in southeastern Connecticut searching for wild edible food to identify, photograph, and create recipes. Healthy, organic, wild food.
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Chef Alan Bergo shares a recipe for puffball mushroom lasagna using mushrooms instead of noodles.
Have you found a giant puffball? Here's a great selection of tasty puffball recipes to make with this amazing gourmet mushroom.
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Chef Alan Bergo discusses dehydrating puffballs and cooking with the resulting "flour". It's a great space saver, and powerful flavor bomb.
I found these puffballs in the grass along the edge of the woods two days ago. Giant puffballs, Calvatia gigantea, are edible but they have to be
