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Wild Raspberries
I’m a shameless dork when it comes to picking wild raspberries. That’s me in the hooded net shirt. After the year that I came running back to the house with half a bucket of true beauties (the...
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Morel Minority
I found some, in my yard! More than one! For years now I’ve been developing recipes for one morel: asparagus with one-morel vinaigrette, a small morel compote to daub on soup . . and now maybe I can...
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Chanterelles, for real
I had given up the hope of ever finding chanterelles here. It seemed that our dusty-bottomed, pine-needled woods would never give them up. But then one day, as we were sitting down to a proper dinner...
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Wild Cranberry Jellies
Here’s something for the Christmas plate, glowing red jellies to stand out against all those sugar cookies and chocolates. Wild highbush cranberries grow on the banks of the creek below my house, and...
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It’s -23ºF. this morning, and the wind chill is unquestionably in the nether regions. At 6 a.m. I walked outside onto the porch to grab more wood to feed the fire, and during that 30-second jaunt I...
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Morel Morale
How’s your morel morale? Found any yet? Been gifted any? I was! I’ve come to accept that our woods just don’t give them up. After all, we live in a very pine-y patch of forest and morels prefer to...
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