How to make smoked wild game kielbasa at home, with lessons from salumist Elias Cairo on cure and casings, plus a venison kielbasa recipe built around one bag of seasoning.

Wild Game Kielbasa: How to Make Smoked Venison Sausage at Home

Lamb's quarter is a wild edible green growing as a weed across Canada. How to identify it, where to pick it, and how to cook, blanch and freeze it for the year.

Lamb's Quarter: How to Identify, Forage and Cook It

BC wild berry season runs June through September. When salmonberry, thimbleberry, saskatoon, huckleberry and blackberry ripen, and how to pick and freeze them.

Wild Berry Season in BC: What's Ripe and When

Dandelion, lamb's quarter, chickweed and plantain grow as weeds across Canada. How to identify the four easiest edible backyard weeds, and how to cook them.

Edible Weeds in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide

Learn the no-fail method to make homemade bacon.  Cure and smoke your own bacon using equilibrium curing.

Mastering Homemade Bacon: The Self-Reliant Way to Cure and Smoke Your Own

Learn how to identify and forage wild sea asparagus, plus get a unique recipe for sea asparagus sauerkraut with garlic scapes and cabbage. A salty, crunchy coastal ferment perfect for adventurous eaters.

Learn how to identify and forage wild sea asparagus and sauerkraut recipe

Silvercore' Bear Pepperoni recipe that allows you full control of what goes into your saussage with no added ingredients that you don’t want to eat. 

Bear Stew with wild BC morels and black garlic

This recipe is a bit of a riff on the big, juicy turkey legs you get at Disneyland, but way better - these have a smokey, lip smacking deliciousness.

Smoked Turkey Legs Recipe Using the Bradley Smoker P10

If you are new to the world of foraging, a great plant to start with is Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium). This resilient and vibrant herbaceous plant is not only a sight to behold in the wild but also a treasure trove of culinary and medicinal possibilities.  In this blog post we include two downloadable fireweed jelly recipes.

Foraging Fireweed and Making Fireweed Jelly

Silvercore's version of Hawaiian “Huli Huli” chicken.

Huli Huli Chicken Recipe

We have curated three staple holiday recipes from our founder, Tiffany Bader, which incorporate local, fresh, and foraged ingredients.

Thanksgiving Recipes

Hank Shaw shares his best smoked salmon recipe.

The Best Smoked Salmon Recipe

A collection of delicious recipes for a Mexican-style evening: Mexican Pickled Red Onions, Grilled Corn Salad, Chipotle Chicken and Guajillo Chili Sauce.

Mexican Night Recipes

An amazing smoked salmon recipe care of Hank Shaw (Hunter Angler Gardener Cook - honest-food.net).

Smoked Salmon Recipe for your Bradley Pro Smoker

Making Bear Pepperoni in the Bradley Smoker

Common plant life in the region, where to find it, how to identify it, what nutritional qualities it carries and what it can be used for.

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