Recipe: Sugar-free persimmon cranberry relish
A delicious chunky sugar-free cranberry relish featuring persimmons, fresh citrus (preferably kumquats), maple syrup, red wine, and spices. The perfect holiday dish!
Recipe: Native passion fruit-Meyer lemon sparkling cordial
Find out how to turn southeastern United States’ native passion fruit (Passiflora incarnata) into a delicious, lightly fermented, sparkling cordial.
Recipe: American persimmon seed tea (yes, persimmon seeds are edible!)
American persimmon trees (Diospyros virginiana) are famed for their fall-ripening fruit, which are technically berries. However, the seeds also have culinary uses — with a few important caveats. In this article, you’ll find out how to use American persimmon seeds in the kitchen.
Recipe: Chestnut breakfast porridge with pan-roasted Japanese persimmons
Chestnut breakfast porridge is one of the simplest recipes you’ll ever make — only two ingredients! Find out how to make this naturally sweetened porridge (no sugar added) and how to dress it up with fall-fruiting Japanese persimmons & nutmeg.
Recipe: Guava butter
This guava butter recipe makes a tropical-flavored sweet and savory spread you can eat as-is or use to amp up other dishes. Put guava butter on yogurt, milk kefir, oatmeal, toast, grilled meats, or other well-paired dishes.
Maitake mushroom soup recipe (based on Thai tom kha gai)
A maitake mushroom soup recipe inspired by Thailand’s famous tom kha gai soup; featuring lemongrass, limes, and coconut milk.
Lion’s mane mushroom chowder
Lion’s mane mushroom chowder: a rich and savory chowder based on the classic New England clam chowder, but with forest food (mushrooms) instead of seafood.
American persimmon pie w/ chestnut flour crust & maple whipped cream
This American persimmon pie recipe (aka “Tyrant’s Tree Pie”) is made with a chestnut flour crust and served with maple whipped cream. Three trees in one pie!
Lion’s mane mushroom soup with broccoli and potatoes
Lion’s mane mushrooms are a gourmet and medicinal mushroom with proven brain-boosting benefits. Here’s a simple, delicious lion’s mane soup recipe you can make with fresh or dehydrated lion’s mane mushrooms.
Growing Malabar spinach, plus recipe: African groundnut stew (maafe)
Malabar spinach is a vining, heat-loving green that produces huge quantities of edible leaves. Use it to make our delicious African groundnut stew recipe!
Recipe: Black trumpet mushroom pasta, simple & delicious
A simple but incredibly delicious black trumpet mushroom pasta recipe. Made with eastern US Craterellus fallax or related species.
Recipe: Cast iron corn on the cob with lacto-fermented fruit rub
Find out how to make cast iron corn on the cob on your stovetop! And if you want to take it up a notch, use lacto-fermented fruit rubs before serving.
How to make lacto-fermented fruit, with recipes
Find out how to make lacto-fermented fruit, a secret ingredient used by the world’s top restaurants and chefs. Plus, get our lacto peach with basil & honey recipe!
Reishi mushrooms: How to find, ID, & use — with recipe!
Learn how to find, ID & use reishi mushrooms. Reishis have been used medicinally in Asian cultures for thousands of years, and grow wild in North America.
Recipe: Elderflower kombucha
Find out how to make elderflower kombucha: a delicious easy-to-make beverage with probiotic properties. Recipe works equally well with other edible flowers!