The Key Ingredient

Sheri has nostalgia for wilted salads, so she brings flair from her mountain upbringing to this collard salad with hot bacon dressing. Her contemporary recipe offers traditional flavors with the perfect amount of crunch.

Sheri shares game-changing tips for cleaning and preparing a bunch of collard greens, ensuring you put every part, including the stems, to good use.

Sheri offers a new take on collards with recipes for green curry and coconut creamed collards as well as collard salad with hot bacon dressing. She shares how to use every part of the leaf and explores a wide range of collard varieties with Utopian Seed Project’s Chris Smith. Sheri then meets Glenn and Dorsey Hunt of the Lumbee Tribe at a street festival and makes their famous collard sandwiches.

Sheri cooks along with Glenn and Dorsey Hunt at the Pembroke Street Festival in Eastern NC, where members of the Lumbee Tribe are known for turning the collard-and-cornbread duo into a delicious sandwich.

Sheri Castle’s recipe for green curry and coconut creamed collards will make you rethink leafy greens. A peanut garnish adds crunch to the tender collards, and a squeeze of lime juice brightens the whole dish.

Sheri visits a collard farm outside Asheville, where she discusses the harvest with collard expert Chris Smith. As executive director of the Utopian Seed project, he shows Sheri how cultivating variety helps build resiliency for the leafy greens.

Sheri never gets tired of making soups, and this recipe is no exception. She shares her cherished recipe of double mushroom soup, which is a celebration of mushrooms’ exquisite variety.

Sheri Castle takes a walk in the woods with foraging experts Natalie Dechiara and Luke Gilbert of Wild Goods to find some tasty morel mushrooms.

Sheri hunts for morels deep in the forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains with foraging experts Natalie Dechiara and Luke Gilbert. She then visits the home of farm-to-table pioneer John Fleer to use the morels (aka merkels) in a savory pie. In the kitchen, Sheri shares recipes for double mushroom soup and buttery sauteed mushrooms on toast, plus a tip for cleaning and keeping store-bought mushrooms.

Sheri Castle joins chef John Fleer to learn how to make savory merkel pie with morels she foraged. This Appalachian take on shepherd’s pie is a recipe with a sense of place, perfect for bringing people together.

Host Sheri Castle gives a helpful tip for cleaning store-bought mushrooms and stashing them in your fridge.

Host Sheri Castle whips up buttery sauteed mushrooms on toast, a simple yet tasty recipe worthy of dinner.