Finding Morels in BC – Like pirate booty!
I wasn’t always big on morels. As a chef, they are really expensive ($30/lb) and really hard to clean with all those bloody holes in the caps. But I found a cluster of small black morels when I was hiking, totally clean! Free luxury culinary ingredients always makes me excited. So, I added those to…
June 19, 2014
Baked Garlic Dungeness Crab Recipe
Hi everyone, We’ve been running a lot of Dungeness crab fishing tours this year in Vancouver and everyone wants my recipe for the crab we serve on the beach. So here it is. I DO NOT (sorry to yell) boil my crab, you lose all that great crab flavour to the water which is also…
June 12, 2014
Wild Mushrooms: Shaggy Manes
Shaggy mane mushroom foraging happens from May to October in Vancouver, BC. I found these little suckers in my Vancouver backyard yesterday. Couldn’t resist filming a little “how to” for people that are curious. These mushrooms come up absolutely everywhere and are easy to identify so their a good beginner mushroom for new foragers. Also,…
June 7, 2014