Wild Food Dinner!

I was fortunate enough to join some friends in Ontario, Canada last week at a Wild Food Dinner hosted by the Lanark Wild Food Club.  The best part was getting to try some foods I would never have been able to try!  My favorite by far was the roasted beaver.  Not something found down here in Cape May County. (This will be a photo heavy post!  Though mere words and photos cannot describe the taste.)

The menu was varied and all the food was delicious.  From the appetizers such as wild harvested mushrooms on toast with wild leek ricotta, venison sausage, First Nations smoked trout to the main dishes of venison roast & roasted beaver to the dessert of apple & wild plum strudel.

Wild Picked Mushrooms with Herbed Ricotta

Pickerel Fritter & First Nations Smoked Trout

Halved Baked Potato with fresh Pickerel & Wild Leek Butter

Salad of local bitter greens, fiddle heads, cattail palm, smoked trout, thinly sliced radishes & beets.

Close up of the Fiddle Heads & Cattail Palm

Puree of Butternut Squash & Apple with Apple cider and Maple Cream

Venison Kafka, Wild Blueberries & Local Cheddar

Roasted Beaver with Venison sausage stuffing.

Wild Plum & Apple Strudel

A nice Canadian Charonnay to accompany the entire meal.

 I even won a door prize!  I picked up a book on Edible Wild Plants, which I hope to utilize here at home.

Kudos to the Lanark Wild Foods Club for hosting such a fantastic event, all the foragers, anglers, & hunters who donated the food; as well as to the team of culinary students from St. Lawrence College Centre for Culinary Arts for such a delicious meal.

My friends have been forewarned that I will be making this an annual pilgrimage.  I am so grateful for good friends!