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    Foraging

    Tromping through fields and forests to find mushrooms, buds, or flowers is a reward in itself. And when you can turn these treasures into delicious edibles, the reward is doubled. Even if your foraging is for spruce tips in your back yard or wild berries at the farmers' market, you can join in the fun.

    How about a luscious Wild Mushroom Risotto or an Old Fashioned Saskatoon Pie to share with friends?

     

    • The Saskatoon Drizzle Cake on a glass cake stand, surrounded with sprigs of fresh saskatoon berries.
      The Best Saskatoon Cake - a Saskatoon Drizzle Cake
    • Wild Mushroom Quiche with a slice cut out of it.
      Wild Mushroom Quiche with a Gluten-Free Crust
    • Rimmed china soup bowl with cream of puffball soup garnished with a scattering of chopped chives.
      Cream of Puffball Soup
    • a jar of each syrup, with labels
      Spruce Tip Syrup - 2 Ways
    • morel mushroom soup with wild rice is full of flavour
      Wild Rice and Morel Mushroom Soup - Nature's Best in a Bowl
    • pasta with morel mushrooms - dig right in
      Mushroom Hunting: Pasta with Morel Mushrooms in a Delicate Cream Sauce
    • horizontal - drizzling butter sauce onto the fiddleheads
      Fiddleheads with Creamy Butter Sauce
    • saskatoon soup thumbnail
      Chilled Saskatoon Soup
    • bowl of fiddlehead soup
      Campfire Cooking: A Spring Menu with Creamy Fiddlehead Soup, Grilled Halibut with Herb Butter, and an Aperol Spritz Cocktail
    • a fresh piece of saskatoon pie
      Old Fashioned Saskatoon Pie - A Taste of the Prairies
    • a plateful of mushrooms on toast
      Mushrooms on Toast - a Simple Pleasure (and we've planted the garden!)
    • warm puffball bites served on a bed of arugula
      Warm Puffball Bites with Pumpkin Seeds and Miso Dressing
    • What are Coral Mushrooms? (And a Few Coral Mushroom Recipes)
    • Nature's Gifts: Fresh Trout, Morels and a side of Bannock (François Lake, B.C. 2011)
    • stuffed pork chops ready to serve
      Juniper Berry and Raisin Stuffed Pork Chops over the Campfire (François Lake, 2015)
    • roasted asparagus, garlic, and spruce tips
      Celebrate Summer with Roasted Asparagus with Garlic and Spruce Tips
    • puffball mushroom fettuccine alfredo mounded up in a blue willow plate
      Puffball Fettuccine Alfredo
    • have a saskatoon scone with butter
      Gluten Free Saskatoon Scones
    • fireweed jelly on toast - heaven!
      Fireweed Jelly - a Jewel from the Wild
    • creamy wild musrhroom risotto
      Wild Mushroom Risotto (and we're off to Italy!)
    • ready to eat a forkful of the cheesy deliciousness
      Easy Crustless Puffball Pie
    • lifting a slice of the mushroom tart with a cake lifter
      Leek & Mushroom Tart (And I've Been Mushroom Hunting Again!)
    • small plate of pan fried morel mushrooms
      Pan Fried Morel Mushrooms - a Gourmet Snack
    • Swedish Cream with Rhubarb
      Spruce Tip (or Basil) Baked Rhubarb Compote over Silky Swedish Cream
    • spruce tip potatoes and cream
      Spruce Tips and Potatoes and Cream (Plus Spruce Tip Salt & Spruce Tip Vinegar)
    • pork tenderloin stuffed with spruce tips and orange
      Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Spruce Tips and Orange Glaze
    • Spruce Tip Salad with Citrus
      Citrus Spruce Tip Salad
    • Spring green salad with fresh spruce tips
      Green Salad with Spruce Tips - a Springtime Treat
    • a plump and still-warm rhubarb galette flavoured with spruce tips
      Rhubarb and Spruce Tip Galette - Easier than Pie!
    • a little stemmed liqueur glass of spruce tip liqueur
      Spruce Tip Liqueur (and a Couple Spruce Tip Cocktails)
    • sauteed mushrooms with spruce tips and chives
      My First Authentic Canadian Food Memory: Buttery Sauteed Mushrooms with Spruce Tips and Chives
    • steak and mushrooms make a great summer dinner with corn on the cob and asparagus
      Steak and Mushrooms - a Classic
    • taking the first bite of puffball schnitzel with sage and onion gravy
      Puffball Schnitzel with Sage and Onion Gravy
    • Puffball Recipes: giant puffball out in the meadow
      The Mighty Mushroom Hunters (and Some Giant Puffball Recipes)
    • Puffball Patties (Another Tasty Recipe for a Giant Puffball)
    • Pickled Spruce Tips - half pints ready to store for the winter and many delicious uses
      Pickled Spruce Tips

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      Panforte (Italian Christmas Cake)
    • loaf of gumdrop fruitcake with slice in front of it
      A Canadian Christmas: Gumdrop Fruitcake, an Old Prairie Recipe (Gluten-free version, too)
    • a stollen sliced up to serve
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