An easy way to make small batch maple syrup in your kitchen with no specialty equipment, other than tree taps! Use what you already have to make small batches of maple, or other tree syrups for self sufficiency.
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Edible Puffball Mushrooms: Lycoperdon pyreform & perlatum
Recognize the prolific and often under appreciated common puffballs Lycoperdon perlatum and Lycoperdon pyreform. Learn how to harvest, process, and prepare these delicious little pops of great mushroom flavor!
Oyster Mushroom Stock- Pleurotus ostreatus
A delicious recipe that turns tough, inedible oyster mushroom stems into a flavorful stock, that also leaves the stems tender enough to eat. No more oyster mushroom waste. This recipe is also vegan.
Elderberry Jam recipe- 12 calories and 5 carbs a teaspoon!
A recipe for a low sugar elderberry jam that has 12 calories and 5 carbs per teaspoon.
Giant Puffball, Calvatia gigante- August or September mushroom
The giant puffballs, Calatrava gigante
Southern Style Sumac Sweet “Tea”- Rhus typhina
make a refreshing Southern style sweet tea using Staghorn or smooth sumac fruit. Rhus typhina or Rhus glabra make a wonderful vitamin C, and antioxidants rich, caffeine free beverage. Perfect for summer evenings!
Sumac Spiced Apples
Apples in a delicious spiced sumac syrup for canning.
Sumac Lemonade- Rhus typhina, a late summer treat.
An easy method to make cold process sumac lemonade, a high vitamin c natural plant product that is refreshing when served cold in the hot summer months.
August Foraging- Lambsquarters, or Chenopods
learn to identify, harvest and use a highly nutritious plant commonly called lambsquarters or goose foot, in the chenopodium family.
Oyster Mushrooms- Pleurotus ostreatus
description and photos of wild harvested Oyster mushrooms, Pleurotus ostreatus.
Ultra Low Carb Blackberry Jam- 8 calories and 2.4 carbs per teaspoon!
A blackberry jam recipe that ultra low in carbs. At 8 calories and 2.4 carbs per teaspoon, this jam is packed with blackberry flavor!
Polyporus squamosus Falafel (Dryad Saddle; Pheasant Back)
A recipe using the wild mushroom Polyporus squamosus (or Dryad Saddle/ Pheasant back) to make crispy, delicious, baked falafel patties. An excellent use for a challenging edible mushroom!
