Wander and Paint — cookbook illustrations
100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Deep Fried Chicken-of-the-woods Mushrooms Recipe
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Always had a love affair with mushrooms and always will. So in this weeks edition of "Wild Dining Illustrated," I'm rendering a beautiful version of a recipe inspired from the Forager Chef...
100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Cattail Pasta Recipe
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The cattails plant fascinates me. Mostly because this wild veggie has wet feet. Its natural habitat seems to be thriving within the edges of bodies of water like lakes, ponds or maybe even rivers...
100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Wild Garlic Leek Potato Soup Recipe
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[...] This basic soup recipe could perhaps serve as a strong foundation for other culinary adventures, but don't take my word for it. I imagine that topping it with some caramelized shallots would kick it up a notch. Hint. Hint...
100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Wild Oregon Grapes Breakfast Parfait Recipe
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[...] You can find not one, but two, jam recipes in the resource section. For myself, I'm having way too much fun depicting what is essentially slabs of yogurt or sour cream trapped in gooey goodness and coming up with my own parfait concoction...
100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Ostrich Fern Pizza
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It was dark in the garden but I was hooked.
A friend of mine, a few years ago, introduced me to wood-fired ostrich fern pizza. Me and a group of friends had to hunt for the fiddle heads first throughout the garden, where there was barely any light left in the sky to illuminate the way-- and it was damp.
..but so worth the wait...