Whipped lingonberry porridge
During late summer/early autumn Finnish forests transform into a real gold mine, with all these tiny round berries all over the place. With Klaus we went several times to forest to pick as much berries as possible to stock up in freezer for winter. We are pretty satisfied as…
Chaga mushroom: how to dry and store it
In the previous post we saw what are chaga mushrooms’ benefits and how to find it.
Once you have picked your chaga, you’ll have to go through three steps: cleaning, drying and storing.
Cleaning
Clean the chaga from all the dirt and pieces of wood. Since it has cracks and creeks in…
Chaga mushroom: what is it, benefits and why you need to know about it
This time we’ll talk about a really precious gift that Finnish nature gives us.
Chaga mushroom (or Inonotus obliquus, Latinisation of the Russian term ‘чага’ ), is a fungus. It grows only in dead or dying trees, but it should be collected only from living trees because, in a dead…
Strawberries
True, strawberries, if not the wild ones, cannot be found growing spontaneous in nature. Still, I’d like to include them in this periodical (Finnish nature presents us) because, due to Finnish climate, this berries are particularly tasty here. Why? Well, during summer darkness doesn’t reach us up here and this…