A personal project I’m doing is cooking food from every country, and quite often I’m able to include foraging into them thanks to so many cultures having it as a tradition and part of their food!
This time I did Moldova, and made ciulama di ciuperci, this is a simple mushroom stew. Made with just mushrooms, sour cream, onion, garlic, and flour to thicken. I used wild mushrooms because, of course. I used aniseed funnels, ceps, bays, birch, and matte boletes. Moldova sadly lacks forests so unlike close neighbour Romania has less of a foraging culture, though wild mushrooms are easily obtained there. The stew itself was lovely - highlighted the mushrooms with a sour tang. A nice way to use some up!
(Clitocybe odora, Boletus edulis, Imleria badia, Leccinum scabrum, & Xerocomellus pruinatus)