Fish
Springtime Pike Chowder
This springtime pike chowder makes use of spring-caught northern pike, fiddleheads, pheasant back mushrooms, and other spring treats!
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Foraged Foods
Spruce Tip Marinated Goat Cheese
This spruce tip marinated goat cheese is an incredible way to use up some of your spring spruce tip foraging bounty!
Fish
Bengali Pike Heads with Lentils (Machher Muro Dal)
This Bengali pike heads with lentils (machhur muro dal) is a thick lentil stew made with fish stock and pike heads!
Foraged Foods
Mashed Potatoes with Spruce Tip Swirl
These mashed potatoes with a spruce tip swirl are a delicious and impressive dish to present to guests during the spring time!
Baking
Pheasant Back and Kasha Knishes
These pheasant back and kasha knishes are baked goodies stuffed with wild mushrooms and buckwheat, done in the New York style!
Fish
Spruce Tip Pickled Pike
This spruce tip pickled pike is the perfect thing to make with smallish pike that are biting hard in the spring when the spruce are budding!
Big Game
Venison alla Pizzaiola
This venison alla pizzaiola is a wild riff on the famous Neapolitan dish known as “pizza makers steak” or bistecca pizzaiola.
Big Game
Ginger Scallion Bear Dumplings
These ginger scallion bear dumplings are a wonderful way to eat ground bear meat. Always make sure the dumplings are cooked past 145°F on the inside!
Foraged Foods
Roasted Spring Veggies with Curry Oil
These roasted spring veggies with curry oil are a medley of fiddleheads, hosta shoots, and pheasant backs, roasted and served with curry oil!
Foraged Foods
Creamy Tarragon Pheasant and Pheasant Back Mushrooms
This creamy tarragon pheasant and pheasant back mushrooms uses both the bird and mushroom with the bird’s namesake in a dreamy rich dish!
Fish
Spring Forager’s Curry with Bullhead Catfish
This spring forager’s curry uses bullhead catfish and plenty of foraged spring treasures to augment its Thai-inspired coconut curry base!
Big Game
Filipino Wild Pork Sinigang
This Filipino wild pork sinigang is a sour tamarind-laced soup that is popular in the Philippines. I made mine with wild hog!
Foraged Foods
Morel and Fiddlehead Pasta with Ramp Butter
This morel and fiddlehead pasta with ramp butter is a fantastic way to use up some of your spring foraging bounty!
Big Game
Shaved Venison Bagels with Horseradish Cream Cheese
These shaved venison bagels with horseradish cream cheese make for a hearty handheld meal and are absolutely delicious!
Big Game
Blackened Alligator Tacos with Macque Choux and Remoulade
These blackened alligator tacos are topped with a macque choux corn salsa and remoulade sauce for a real Cajun mash-up!