Foraged dessert

Some friends are doing a foraging-themed dinner, and the roulette wheel turned up dessert for me. Seattle, early September. Anybody have any thoughts or ideas for a "foraged" dessert? Berries are easy, of course, but perhaps a bit too obvious. Looking for creative or fun ideas.

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cathy_odonnell_78273

Maybe mint or anise, apples, huckleberries.

Timmy_74965

Grapes, herbs (mint, sorrel, etc.), pears, plums, pluots, persimmon, winter squashes...Edible flowers are always a nice addition to dessert, both for flavor and presentation. If you want to go for berries, you could try tracking down something dynamic like huckleberries.

Jae_Lam_22161

Random ideas - Cucumber lime tart? Watermelon mint cake/souffle? Berries + rosemary+ tomato panna cotta...because...why not?

Ren__91835

Too early for persimmons? Lots of beautiful desserts can be made with those? Candy cap mushroom cookies are also delicious. Something with berries? Homemade berry custard with farm fresh eggs

Michelle_45232

I have been making a lot of galettes/crostatas lately. Very good, very easy and pretty impressive. Now about an apple galette or two?

m.skibbs

Momofuku Milk's pickled strawberry jam corn cookies, perhaps? It might be a bit early for the corn harvest... but the cookies look delicious. I got an e-mail about ChefSteps forums and this was the 3rd post on the page. Small world, see you at Gretchen's for dinner! LOL

derekslager_95198

Busted!

tdeptula

Carrot or parsnip cake, herb panna cotta think mint, eucalyptus, or baked figs

Federico_Rekowski_6797

Wild fennel parfait ?

wolfiegirl

This is really old school but when I think of foraging, my minds eye takes me to the woods, walking on a floor of branches and leaves and large fallen tree trunks. With that in mind, how about an old fashioned 'log cake'. Sponge cake filled with a strawberry or other type berry filling (sticking with what you can forage); ice the cake with a very light milk choc icing, using long cuts of chocolate to form the bark atop the icing. You could actually use two or three different kinds of chocolate to vary the colors of the bark from the fallen branch. Meringue mushrooms 'growing' on the fallen branch as well as around it, with edible flowers surrounding and on the log as well. Again kind of old school but very vivid in presentation and of course, delicious to eat!

A_L_Esterling_35269

Candied chestnuts—but you’ll have to be quick to beat the other Seattle foragers to the prize!