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Summer Succotash:
with Milky Cap Butter Compote
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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Lactarius(Milky Cap) Mushrooms
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…