Bucharest Pride was absolutely amazing today! Tens of thousands showed up for a massive march despite the heat, a stand against nationalist fascism, a bullet Romanians managed to dodged not even two weeks ago. So many also chanted against genocide, I had tears in my eyes 🥲🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈

I've been craving it for a few days, today I got around to making it: creamy rice pudding with cardamom, lime zest and rose water, foraged wild cherries in light syrup, and seasonal flowers (honeysuckle, mallow, linden and cornflower). #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun #Wildfood

Another rainy day, half spent proofreading, then an hour of decompressing in the kitchen: Millet and wild mushrooms croquettes w/ melted cheese core, grated parmesan, Oxalis and wild sage flowers and root puree of parsnip, carrot and celeriac. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun #Fungifriends #WildFood

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I love wild food. I love the idea of knowing what and how to safely forage from nature. I enjoy learning what to do with it, how it was used in the past, and experimenting with it in a modern kitchen. Here's four wild foods from tonight's walk: dryad's saddle, wood ears, mulberries and cherries.

Mallow leaves stuffed with wild mushrooms (Cerioporus & Pleurotus), green onion, green garlic and millet, served with pink semolina porridge made with kefir and beetroot puree. Mallow flowers, wild thyme and dill-infused oil as garnish. #WarrriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun #Wildfood

Wandering in the rain. No people, but a lot of activity.

We went to sleep late last night after an evening of frantic refreshing the news pages for elections’ final result, and we’ve been sleepy all day, so I took my dog to the park to just lay in the grass. Mock strawberry 🍓 as a bonus, it looks so yummy but tastes like cardboard.

Romania just dodged a very close bullet and in a spectacular turnaround voted massively for the pro-European candidate over the sinister Trumpist one. People are now celebrating in the streets and I can finally go to sleep after two weeks of anxiety… 🎉🇪🇺

Woke up at 7am to go vote and kept myself busy the rest of the day to not succumb to the general anxiety about the outcome of this election 🤞 Squash soup with leek, ginger and safflower, caramelized oyster mushrooms, wild garlic infused evo, squash seeds and violets. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

The forest is full of hawthorn in bloom and I felt invited to pick some for tea, which is excellent for reducing stress and anxiety. I have a feeling I'll need it, especially this weekend, when Romania has presidential elections 🤞

Chicken of the woods spiced curry (that's a mushroom not an actual bird 😅), roasted cauliflower, basmati rice, parsley, wild sage flowers. 🍄 Laetiporus sulphureus. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun #Wildfood #Fungifriends

We had a big scare with my friend's dog who had a vestibular syndrome attack on Sunday night, but after an MRI and 3 days of hospitalization he is now better and finally back with us and I'm so grateful 🥲

Every time I cook okra (not often), I remember a bit from a fic where Beatrice hated okra and it always makes me chuckle. Bean, onion & kapia pepper mash, topped with salsa verde, roasted okra and wild oyster mushrooms and wild garlic ”capers”. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun #Wildfood #FungiFriends

Rainy morning out in nature. We got soaked, but it was worth it.

Yesterday I finished a job that took months. W/out that stress, I suddenly feel like in vacation. And after a shitty week, today I took time w/ my lunch & made something I've been craving: vol-au-vent. With a creamy filling from leftover shrooms, leek & radish greens. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

Gem find, this abandoned place that looks like it haven’t been touched since the fall of communism era. Eerie and beautiful in a decrepit nostalgic way… ⚒️

Marinated dryad's saddle mushroom on the grill, corn & baked onion cream, herb oil (wild garlic, parsley, dill), basil, cornflowers and wild sage. With fresh pita I didn't take a picture of. #WarriorNunFoodie, #WarriorNun #FungiFriends #WildFood

The forecast said a week of rain all across Europe after a couple of days already too hot for us. I think it's coming... ⛈️

If you think something like pineapple pizza is blasphemous, don't come to my pizza party 😅 Strawberries, chicken pastrami, homemade tomato sauce, mozzarella di bufala, basil, black pepper & aceto balsamico. Amazingly awesome! #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

#Hacks is the only thing right now that I enjoy watching. Everything else, on any platform, is just unbearable crap.

Why we might cause some incidents in traffic 😎😅

Touching grass again, or more specifically crossing a field of prickly poppies, then finding a bunch of very young and tender dryad's saddle mushrooms. Roemeria argemone, Cerioporus squamosus. #FungiFriends #Wildfood #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

Piper 🖤

Fresh tagliatelle with wild garlic, green garlic and spinach, a generous amount of black pepper and Grana, cornflowers and pickled dandelion buds. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun #Wildfood

Another cat commission in the works 🐈‍⬛

Out to pick the last of wild garlic.

Office for today.

Millet polenta cooked in milk w/ honey, inspired by an ancient Roman recipe, with sweetened kefir, fresh strawberries, wild elderberry jam & elder flowers. The solitary pink flower is a common stork's bill (Erodium cicutarium). #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun #Wildfood

I got him protection goggles because I always worry when I drive and his head is outside the window, and we went out to test them, but a sudden rain caught out with us and now we wait in the car for it to pass.

Orzotto in a lemony, buttery sauce from asparagus ends, wild garlic & baby spinach, poplar fieldcaps (Cyclocybe cylindracea) & asparagus skewers, hoary cress (Lepidium draba) tops, like mini broccoli, and a bunch of wild flowers (forget-me-nots, cornflower and elder). #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

Cat commissioned by a friend 🤍

I spent all day at my parents', because mom cooked a full Easter table so it was nonnegotiable to be there 😅 but I also enjoyed a few hours in the garden, just chilling and playing in the grass with my dog and drawing.

First day of going to a terrace in this capricious spring. I need some time adjusting to being social again 😅 but my dog loved it.

Morning walk and first time meeting the pavement agaric (Agaricus bitorquis) a mushroom growing underground, often in hardened soil, pushing the surface with enough force to even penetrate asphalt. A relative of the button mushroom, also edible. #FungiFriends #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

Lesbian eating rainbows 🌈 #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

Four beauties from today's walk: a very young dryad's saddle (Cerioporus squamosus), poplar fieldcaps (Cyclocybe aegerita), mica caps (Coprinellus micaceus) and tiger sawgills (Lentinus tigrinus). All edible, but I picked only a few poplars. #FungiFriends #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

Why is this the same picture?! (Sorry, Vermeer!) Wild hop shoots souffle in my very old earthen bowl, probably a century old. I often wonder how many dishes this bowl carried. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

Layered polenta with nettles, wild garlic, melting cheese and wild mushroom duxelle, topped with rosemary flowers and served with wild garlic yogurt. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

Long and tiring week already, after another hard week before, but fortunately we have our morning walks...

Roasted celeriac, braised wild dock, butter bean mash with milk, onion, turmeric and safflower, wild garlic pesto and a few cornflowers petals for contrast. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

Morning vs evening situation.

Sour red orache soup with pink sauerkraut on leek/potato/onion base, hard boiled egg and a garnish of wild garlic, Brassica and Prunus flowers.

Out for a coffee with my friend and our entire menagerie 😅 Bonus pic: I kept feeding a couple of mourning doves that came to my window every day. Now they moved in and laid eggs in one off my pots and since yesterday we have a chick?! 🫠😭

Braised soy beans and peas with foraged seasonal greens from three days ago (hop shoots & wild broccoli), fried king oysters, dried apricots, crushed roasted peanuts and spicy buttermilk tomato sauce. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

My new wallpaper is finished. Seeing all that AI slop on sm makes me sick to my stomach but it’s also pushing me to spend more time just drawing. Art was always free and it will always be for anyone willing to spend the time and energy doing it. AI will never be art.

The spring is really springing, it's quite hot and everything is in bloom and smells wonderful. And during this morning's walk I found my first wild edible greens of the season: hops shots & wild broccoli. Now I need some cooking inspo... #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun #Humuluslupulus #Lepidiumdraba

We didn’t call it a date but it feels a bit like a date, and its the first time when we go out together to sit down and eat. I managed a reservation at a popular ramen place she once mentioned, where is so hard to book a table. Its this afternoon and I don’t know why I’m sooo nervous. 😬🫠

Weekends are for treating yourself a little extra: masala omelette with radish greens, grilled cremini mushrooms, asparagus and bacon in pita, with lemon/yogurt dressing and wild violets. #WarriorNunFoodie #WarriorNun

My mood for drawing is suddenly back, so I’m also back to sorting my chaotic feelings through art.