
Steamed Artichokes with Garlic-Spruce Aioli
These steamed artichokes with garlic-spruce aioli make for the perfect appetizer or light lunch. The aioli is made with freshly foraged spruce tips!
These steamed artichokes with garlic-spruce aioli make for the perfect appetizer or light lunch. The aioli is made with freshly foraged spruce tips!
This Sichuan springtime stir fry utilizes delicious spring produce and foraged wild edibles to create a delicious seasonal specialty!
This ohitashi, a Japanese dish of greens steeped in dashi broth, is a great side for any Japanese dinner and can be made with store bought or wild greens!
VIDEO – This video will show you how to harvest and cook stinging nettle. After harvesting some near a creek, I take it home and make a nettle and ricotta pasta!
This Dandelion Salade Lyonnaise is a spin on the bistro classic from Lyon, France, where it is usually made with curly endive or frisée.
These bullhead BLT’s are a wonderful way to enjoy spring-caught bullhead catfish, aka mudcats. The beer-battered fried fish goes great on BLTs!
This Greek mutton or lamb dish from Crete utilizes foraged wild greens and an avgolemono sauce to achieve perfect balance and deliciousness!
This wild greens saag can be made from any foraged wild greens you find in the spring, including dandelion, garlic mustard, nettles, ramps, etc.
This cattail shoot ‘sunomono’ salad, was inspired by the Japanese cucumber sunomono salad due to the cooling cucumber flavour of the cattail shoots.
This springtime wild soba soup turns common foraged greens found in the springtime into a hearty, healthy, and delicious Japanese-inspired soup!
This wild greens mac and cheese is a decadent and delicious way to incorporate wild greens like nettles, dandelions, garlic mustard, etc. into your diet!
These Moroccan pike meatballs on couscous can be made with any white lakefish, but northern pike is particularly tasty!
Video – Spring foraging can be very rewarding. This Persian kuku sabzi egg dish was made with freshly foraged wild spring greens!
This Thai sweet chili pike tail, roasted in the oven and served over coconut creamed spinach, is a great way to change up your lake fish dinner game!
These Egyptian duck liver sandwiches are usually made with water buffalo liver, but duck liver makes for an amazing substitute!
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