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A Louisiana classic: Gumbo made with, well, whatever meats you have in the freezer. Venison, duck, pork, etc. Oh, and ya gotta have okra!
A wild game version of the Hunan classic red-braised pork, made with wild boar. The dish was one of Chairman Mao's favorite meals.
Homemade venison sausages, flavored with wild sage, juniper - and a little gin.
We caught some leopard sharks the other day, so I sauteed them in olive oil and served them with a sauce of tomatoes and wild mushrooms.
A cooling summer salad of pheasant or chicken with fennel bulb, fresh green fennel seeds and fennel pollen.
Homemade pici pasta, a hand-rolled fat spaghetti from Tuscany, served with a tomato-fennel sauce and pecorino.
A rare soup indeed: Italian cicerchia beans in broth with pheasant confit and borage leaves.
After foraging for sassafras roots in New England, I decided to study some old recipes and make my own root beer syrup - just add seltzer!
Grilled fresh spring porcini with a morel sauce made with demi-glace and Port wine.
A foraged meal: Wild mountain violets with raw spring porcini mushrooms, tossed in olive oil and Chinese rice wine.
Venison tenderloin with fresh morels and a Port wine sauce.
When life gives you fresh, wild mulberries, make sorbet out of them!
Dorado (mahi mahi) dredged in masa, sauteed in avocado oil, over a nopalitos salad with a sweet-spicy prickly pear sauce. Salud!
My version of the French Laundry's duck breast roulade wrapped in chard, with wild goose, scorzonera puree and duck demi-glace.
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This is a celebration of everything good in spring: morels, asparagus, artichokes, ramps, fava beans, and a fried pheasant egg!
A Sicilian-inspired pesto with almonds and oregano, only I replced garlic with spring ramps.
This is my riff off the classic Sardinian soup of tiny clams and fregula pasta, only I used mussels foraged from Tomales Bay in Northern California.
Not all gnocchi are made with potato: These are ciciones, a Sardinian saffron-and-semolina gnocchi, served with a rich venison tomato sauce.
Sometimes a day of foraging at the beach results in only a smattering of clams, mussels, crabs and shrimp. What to do? Make this risotto!
Seared wild goose breast over beluga lentils served with a highbush cranberry gastrique.
Homemade farro spaghetti, made with a chitarra from Abruzzi, tossed with stewed leeks, parsley and pecorino cheese.
A modern take on irvuzu, a Sardinian dish of wild greens and fennel sauteed with pancetta.
Making cheese at home is not as hard as you might think. This is a fresh, Greek-style cow's milk cheese.
A salad made with the 'weeds' from a typical lawn: Chicories, dandelions, chickweed and wild lettuces.
Who says "fruit" wines need be unrefined? This homemade raisin wine, made in 2005, is as smooth as any Amontillado sherry.
Calabrian hot pepper pasta. Chiles are occasionally added to pasta dough in Italy, both in the north and the south.
Spaghetti with fresh anchovies and bottarga, a traditional dish in Sardinia and Sicily.
Swedish meatballs made with moose meat, then served with a cream sauce spiked with wild highbush cranberries.
Strettine, a sort of linguine made with stinging nettles, that comes from Emilia Romagna. This is served with a venison sugo.
A rich, red wine and wild mushroom ragu served over handmade cavatelli made with acorn flour.
Acorn flour cavatelli, a classic pasta from Puglia made during hard times... like now.
Celebrating the darkest days of winter with squid ink pasta with black trumpet mushrooms and a black fermented garlic sauce.