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…
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…
If there was one book that really stimulated in me the curiosity of trying new recipes and experiment this was definitely the Cioccolato book from Slow Food. Sorry, not on sale anymore. It was released some 5 years ago as an attachment to an Italian journal, Il Corriere della…
Kokkola is really a place worth visiting if you’re planning to come to Finland. Kokkola, or Karleby in Swedish, is one of the oldest town in the country. Sadly, Finland doesn’t have many historical buildings due to the numerous fires that repeatedly burned them. Since the buildings used to…
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…