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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tonight we made 7 jars of wild choke cherry gastrique ... excited to try it soon! This is only half of the cherries we harvested. Tomorrow, we're making jelly! #foraging #wildfood #wildcrafting #chokecherries

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pale green assassin bug eating a Western leaf-footed bug (to the best of my knowledge) Deck life. This is my life. We're on vacation, & are fascinated by this assassin bug nymph crawling all over this other bug, sucking (literally) its life force out of it. But - nature, eh? It's cruel & amazing.

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is artwork - beautiful and delicious! My favorite species of COW ❤️❤️ #foragjng #fungus #photography

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The foraging gods were kind today. We had to return to the car to drop stuff so I had room to collect the rest! Hen of the woods (Grifola frondosa): I'll process tomorrow. So many good options for this one I said I really want to find a Hen ... minutes later, and there she was!

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Made a quick "crab pasta" with the last 😢 packet of Lion's Mane (Hericium sp.). Just butter, salt, pepper, touch of garlic and pasta. One of my favorite mushrooms and one of the healthiest 😋🍴 #foraging #mushrooms #fungus #food #foodphotography #photography

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

From forest to plate: Puffball mushrooms (Calvatica gigantea) Remove the "skin", slice, dip in egg, coat in Italian season breadcrumbs, garlic, salt and pepper, and pan fry until GBD (golden, brown & delicious). Serve with ranch and homemade pizza sauce. 😘😋🍴 #foraged #mushroom #cooking

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A few favorite captures from yesterday's hike ... flowering rush and a giant eastern swallowtail ❤️📷 #hiking #photography #nature

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm officially taking name ideas for this spider. It's a dark fishing spider. Its bigger than it even looks in this photo. Likely a female, which eats its mate during copulation. And I have not sanctioned its living here in my patio box, but it doesn't care, so here we are. Names ... GO.

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A beautiful buck and doe whitetail deer at the park today #wildlife #nature #summer #photography

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Great day on the water! Tons of strikes, some I messed up on setting the hook, some struck short of the fly, but I managed to pull a beautiful brown and rainbow trout out of the river. #fishing #ausable #Michigan

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Chanterelles, cedar buds, sweetfern and choke cherries foraged today #foraging #fruit #mushrooms #fungus

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This Giant crane fly landed on our dock while we were having coffee and watching the river. So cool. #insect #cranefly

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yesterday we foraged a few milkweed pods and chanterelles, and turned them into dinner with a filet mignon 😋

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Some beautiful things today. We found a Virginia tiger moth caterpillar, monarch caterpillars (lots, on milkweed!), a Merganser while we fished the river, and Pileated woodpeckers at the cabin. ❤️🙏

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A beautiful flush of very fresh chicken of the woods (Laetiporous sulpherous). This is the freshest flush I've ever found. I only took some and we have it marinating in buttermilk, hot sauce and a bunch of spices and will bread and pan fry later 😋 #foraging #mushrooms #fungus

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dragonfly on my rhododendron (taken the other evening, I forgot to post it). I watched it for quite a while, moving its head around looking for insects to eat. So cool! #nature #dragonfly #insect #summer #photofraphy

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This fishing spider is living in our patio box. Holy bejeeeeeeeebus!! The leg span is 2 inches (and this one is ... small ... ) #spiders #arachnid #summer

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's Fronie's gotcha day - 1 year ago today we brought her home! She's with us for a bit of a road trip and wine tasting and food at Bella Vista Winery. Perfect on a beautiful Saturday! #adoption #gsd #dogs #doglove

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Chanterelle Mushroom Pasta! From Hank Shaw. My first time making it, and it is amazing- it just tastes like summer! Freshly foraged chanterelles, basil from the garden - corn, tomatoes, a squeeze of lemon juice on top ... try it. You've got to try it! #foraged #pasta #cooking #foodporn #food

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A little collage of the hummingbird that was in my fuschia's this evening #photography #nature #bird #summer

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Round two of fried milkweed pods. They're so uniquely flavored. A bit of fresh green, with a sweet undertone and that distinct milkweed flavor. A nice wild vegetable to round out shrimp cakes for dinner. #dinner #foraging #plant #milkweed #wildfoods

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A Pileated woodpecker just flew through our backyard and landed - briefly- in our oak tree. Always good to see one!

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

We went kayak fishing today. I caught a nice, roughly 12" bass. The photos could have been better BUT there was a lot going on so this is the best I've got, LOL. I also got a little bluegill. No keepers / eating fish today.

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hubby somehow managed to see this Grey tree frog from 10 ft away, while walking. It's just sitting in its little tree knot hole hanging out 🐸❤️ #frog #nature #photography

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Elijah Craig Toasted Barrel Rye and a fire after 2 days of rain. Cheers! #bourbon

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We've got pounds of chanterelles, just the beginning, and the first flush of COW for the year, a beautiful L. cincinnatus. Of course we had to use Forager Chef's recipe for chicken fried chicken of the woods. Yum!

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our little orchard orb weaver spider has moved several feet down, but she's still in our rhododendrons. And she's waaaayyyy bigger than she was. Maybe now I can finish pruning the top of that bush ... 🤣🤣 #spider #nature #photography

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Honeybee on our butterfly weed 🐝🏵❤️ #nature #photography #insect #bee #flower

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Scott's best ribs on the new smoker, with homemade coleslaw and I whipped up some mac and cheese to go with

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Really, mom? Another porch fire? Can't we just watch TV?? 🤣🤣 I've never been judged so hard as I have been by our female GSDs

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Finally, we've got a nice, soaking rain this morning. It will cool things down, and help the trees, plants, rivers and mushrooms to grow ♥️ 🍄 🌳 🪴

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

We found some Red Raspberry slime mold today on our hike. What a beautiful scarlet red fungus! #fungus #foraging #nature #hiking

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Butterfly Kiss 🦋 💋 Milkweed simple syrup, vodka & club soda as a topper. It's very floral & sweet - I'm not overly tolerant of sweet, so for me it's a bit too sweet, I also think it needs a bit more balance (it doesn't follow the cocktail rules in that it's missing a bitter/sour component).

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

We had a great day *finally* getting out to kayak and fish. Our goal was to harvest some bluegill for dinner, which we did! We each caught 3, so fish tacos it is! And I caught a nice bass that gave a good fight,

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

For last night's dinner, the foraging cooperated and we made open face Steak sandwiches with daisy leaf bernaise and charred wild tall blue lettuce 😋 👌 Im alao going to get another batch of pineapple weed liqueur going today. 😋 #cooking #foraging #wildfood

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It's been a minute since I posted food! Chili crisp shrimp rolls with cucumber salad ... so good! #cooking #foodporn #food #dinner

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Foraging projects in progress: Sweetfern tea (a shrub that grows in Northern Michigan and smells amazing) Pineapple weed simple syrup and liqueur in progress, which will end up making the Anti Piña Colada cocktail by Ellen Zachos author of The Wildcrafted Cocktail. #foraging #cocktail #eatweeds

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Cattail & smoked trout summer rolls!! 😋 We foraged some cattail shoots, made a trout salad w/mayo and lemon juice, and wrapped it in rice paper w/lettuce and fresh native mint leaves from the garden - yum! We will definitely make this again. #foraging #cooking #foraged #foodporn #fresh #healthy

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Front porch life on a rainy afternoon. Clean the chairs off to evict moths and a small tree frog (to live in the plants) 🐸 Then you look at your flowers and see a spider 🕷 making a web on the basket of fuchsias you put up yesterday ... And then you see your sweet dog ... 🐕 #rain #porchlife

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Last night's dinner at the cabin was fun! Total locavore / foraged dinner. Bison steak (local raised) w/local whiskey, cedar and cream sauce Local asparagus and aioli made with garlic mustard from a local garlic farm And foraged morels! #foraged #cooking #foodporn #locavore

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Tonight's snack: Fried dandelion cakes, topped with aioli made from a grainy Garlic mustard (made from a local garlic farm), and spruce tips as a garnish! Recipe based on chef Paul Rogalski and Les Stroud's Wild Harvest Recipes cookbook #foraged #cooking

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Some fun things from today! A beautiful (but this one is toxic) "false morel" (complete with slug and spider!) The real deal, seen in its natural habitat A gang of the real deals Wintergreen elixir (the start of it) Sweetfern catkins ... for projects #foraging #spring

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Stuff from today: Porcupine Ramps & trout lillies "Up North" grilled cheese- Chateau Fontaine cheeseball mix & ramps Birch catkins infusing in vodka Beer battered horsetail! And not pictured: Marsh marigold buds marinating in vinegar to make capers #foraging #cooking #spring #Michigan

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The dinner last night with (almost all) foraged ingredients! Flank steak with spruce tip salt and spruce tip butter Morels, fiddleheads and nettles sautéed in butter N. brunnea and garlic mustard gratin (this isn't the prettiest but it was tasty!) #foraging #foraged #food #foodporn #cooking

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Great haul today! All except the morchella morels were found around our home. We've pivoted on dinner - we were having a steak anyway, but instead of the tomato and vinaigrette dressing, we will now season the steak

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Decent haul today N. brunnea (false morels) a few baby pheasant back (Cerioporus squamosus) And a handful of spiders 🕷🤣 Hubby scrambled over dead falls, through brambles (ouch!) and down a slope to get the majority of these brunnea :) #foraging #mushrooms #Spring

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Jen @bluerier.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

And so it begins ... the firsts of the season Golden oysters (Pleurotus cintrinopileatus) Snow Morels (Neogyromitra brunnea) Pheasant back (Cerioporus squamosus) #photography #spring #mushrooms #nature #foraging #fungus

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