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.