Making Chinese BBQ ‘Pork’ Steamed Buns With Wild Game (Moose Char Siu Bao)
Chinese BBQ pork buns (char siu bao) are part of my Cantonese heritage. Making authentic-tasting char siu bao out of moose or wild game is a rewarding and delicious learning experience.
Foraging Acorns in BC & Candied Wild Acorn Recipe
Urban foraging for acorns was one of my first forays into wild plant foods. Read about urban foraging, processing, how to candy acorns and best ways to eat acorns.
Foraging For Rose Hips in BC & How to Make Rose Hip Tea
Foraging for rose hips, processing and making rose hip tea is easy when you live in BC. Rose hips grow wild and in cities, with no poisonous lookalikes.
Cantonese Ginger Scallion Crab & A Little Chinese Canadian History
This Cantnese ginger scallion crab recipe is inspired by the crab I’d eat at Chinese association banquets with my grandmother every year.
How to Check for Red Tide, Shellfish & Bivalve Closures in BC (2020)
Learning how to check for red tide and shellfish closures in BC is an essential part of harvesting shellfish safely. Every harvester must check for red tide and shellfish closures before they eat bivalve molluscs like oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops that they find in BC.
Guide to Start Wild Edible Mushroom Foraging in BC
This wild edible mushroom guide will help you start mushroom hunting. Learn how to find a mushroom spot, how to start foraging, popular edible mushroom identification guide, more mycology resources, how to cook wild mushrooms and essential health and safety tips.
Wild Beach Pea Foraging Guide
Wild food enthusiasts often disagree about whether these edible delicacies are actually edible at all. Bringing up beach peas can turn any mild mannered foraging conversation into a passionate debate.
Identifying and Eating The Shrimp Russula Mushroom (Russula xerampelina)
A little about the Shrimp Russula, a common edible wild mushroom in BC & PNW. Identifying, foraging and eating this mushroom, plus mycology resources.
My Hunting Anxiety, and A Successful Deer Harvest
This is a personal essay about my struggles with anxiety, specifically in relation to hunting, and the mule deer buck I harvested this October in 2020.
How to Ferment Cucumber Pickles, FAQs and Tips
Learn to ferment cucumber pickles at home, the best salt brine % and how to DIY fermentation tools yourself. Plus cucumber pickling fermentation FAQs and tips.