autumn - Skovkær

Main Courses

Mushroom Lasagne – Vegetarian Lasagne with Mixed Mushrooms

This mushroom lasagne with mixed mushrooms is a super delicious vegetarian dish. Like all homemade lasagne, it requires a bit of preparation, as you have to make a mushroom sauce and a bechamel sauce from scratch. However, it takes no more than 45 minutes to prep, and 30 minutes to bake in the oven. This

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Appetizers

Funnel Chanterelle Toast

Funnel chanterelle toast is a super tasty and not least easy dish to make. Funnel chanterelles have a deep, unique taste of umami and mushrooms, and go really well with butter, heavy cream and bread. Funnel chanterelles can be found in autumn in deciduous and coniferous forests. They love damp moss, and once you've found

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Appetizers

Porcini Carpaccio

Porcini carpaccio is a super delicious and not least easy starter to make. Carpaccio traditionally consists of thinly sliced raw meat or fish and is served with rocket, parmesan cheese, pine nuts and sometimes pesto. This carpaccio is therefore a great vegetarian alternative with raw, fresh porcini mushrooms, rocket and a pesto dressing. Porcini mushrooms

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Snacks

Giant Puffball Mini Pizzas

Giant puffball mini pizzas are light, delicate alternative mini pizzas with a crust of giant puffball slices, a traditional tomato sauce and topping of your choice. Giant puffball mini pizzas are super easy to make, and they can be eaten as a delicious snack for any occasion. For this recipe, you can use either the

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Sauces

Winter Chanterelle Cream Sauce

This winter chanterelle cream sauce is made from winter chanterelles, chicken stock, white wine, heavy cream, and salt and pepper. The sauce is perfect with pasta, steak, or chicken. If you use fresh winter chanterelles simply skip the soaking step and add them directly as they are. Winter chanterelles are also known as yellowfoot chanterelles

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Soups

Wild Hedgehog Mushroom Soup

Wild hedgehog mushroom soup is full of umami flavor and is perfect for the autumn season. The soup consists of hedgehog mushrooms, garlic, onion, white wine, vegetable stock, and a bit of heavy cream. It is a perfect appetizer as well as main course. You can use all kinds of wild mushrooms including hedgehog mushrooms,

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Desserts

Sea Buckthorn Crème Brûlée

Sea Buckthorn Crème Brûlée is based on the traditional Crème Brûlée but with a fresh touch of fruitiness and a bit of sourness from the sea buckthorn. Crème Brûlée is the perfect dessert to serve guests since it can be made the day before, and it is such a decorative and delicious dessert. This crème

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Condiments & Preserves

Scandinavian Lingonberry Jam

Lingonberry jam is a popular Scandinavian jam, served in sweet and salty dishes. Typically, lingonberry jam is served with mashed potatoes, meatballs, meat dishes in general, as a spread on bread, or on pancakes. Lingonberries (vaccinium vitas-idaea) are native to northern Europe and North America, and are also known as bearberries, redberries, foxberries, mountain cranberries,

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Main Courses

Porcini and Chanterelle Risotto

Porcini and chanterelle risotto is a creamy and very delicious mushroom risotto. Try to serve this as an appetizer for 4 people or as a main course for 2. I like to use fresh porcini and chanterelle mushrooms since they, in my opinion, have a way stronger taste than if they were dried. The rice used

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Blog

Wild Rose Hip Foraging: All You Need to Know

Rose hips are the fruits of the rose flower plant. Rose hips replace the fallen flowers when the temperatures lower. Rose hips are edible and are shaped round or oval. The color of rose hips is normally bright red to orange – the darker the red the riper.

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