The wonderful thing about risotto is it’s like a blank canvas, providing a relatively neutral base allowing whatever ingredients are added to shine.
Tag: foraging
Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 18: Mother Tree, now and forever
Right there, under scampering Lily and under me, is a world that I can only imagine, a city under a hill, the brain center of a family of trees.
Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 14: Day of the oysters
Morality, as I think about it, is about conflicting needs and demands, and choosing who or what deserves to be spared and who or what deserves to be sacrificed.
Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 10: An incandescence of mushrooms
Within minutes, I saw a bright orange flash in my left eye. There, maybe 20 feet away, deep in the ferns, the wavy scalloped shelves of chicken of the woods blazed in the morning sun.
Illuminating the Hidden Forest Chapter 7: Gear
Whatever performance is in the woods, gear has got to be a part of it. I have my bug-off pants, my bug-off shirt, socks, hat, jacket and even bug-off gaiters…
Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 5: City on a Hill
Oh, no—keep her off my mushroom city. My adored little dog has become a Godzilla threatening Gotham.
Ramps: Eagerly anticipated (and delicious) signs of spring
Native peoples celebrated the arrival of ramps with festivals. Some ramp festivals continue in Appalachia to this day. For early Americans, their eager ramp consumption relieved the sores and tiredness of months of vitamin C-depleted winter.
2018 Year of the Mushroom: A hot, moist year produces overabundance of delectable fungi
Mushrooms are FASCINATING. AND BIZARRE. There are countless varieties that come in all colors (even blue and purple!), sci-fi shapes and perplexing consistencies (some are essentially slime).
NATURE’S TURN: Forager, gardener and cook
Until quite recently, wild foods, both weeds and wildcrafted, had been the purview of naturalists and their followers. Today, chefs seek out foraged edibles to introduce to diners.