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I had a great butternut squash harvest this year. It takes a very laissez-faire approach. You just have to be willing and have the space to let this vine completely take over your yard. Sure, there was a surge of squash vine borers at first and I didn’t think any would make it, but I…
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Dogs around the world will hold this against me, but there is simply too much flavor and nourishment left in a rib steak bone after grilling it to let them have it. Rib steak is a bone-in rib eye. I believe this easy soup made with the leftover bone is equal in decadence to the…
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When the persimmons starts to ripen, we turn into possums. We are always on the look out for an un-tapped tree to scamper up and pilfer. Briefly, we will turn back into civilized humans just long enough to sweet talk an octogenarian into letting us in their backyard. If they are jelly with skin, they…
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This website is not intended to be used for mushroom identification. You should be certain on all identification points when consuming any wild edible. For a list of recommended books and websites for mushroom foraging, click here. I disclaim any liability whatsoever with respect to any damages that result from the use of the information…
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Oyster mushrooms are smooth and white to light brown on the top with white gills attached to and running down the stem. They grow in overlapping shelf-like formations on dead and dying trees and rotting logs. I went for a walk in the woods this morning and found a random flourish of late summer oysters…
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There is an outdoor market in Lafayette called Fresh Pickins that is a bean lovers heaven. You can find most any kind of local grown bean, frozen fresh or dried. Inspired by the peppers and okra(that is now taller than me) in my garden and John Coykendall’s beautiful memoir/gardening/cook book, Preserving our Roots, I picked…
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This summer(specifically mid June through August), we have been fortunate to be in the woods during a few milky cap flushes and racked up. Milky caps are the common name for the genera Lactarius. Not all lactarius are edible and this is not an identification guide, but mushroomexpert.com is and if you are getting into…
Evolving Feast
food adventures of an opportunivore in the deep south
“It’s what you make with what you’ve got”
loretta Lynn