Foraged Mushroom and Berry Stew

Serve when

Ladle out into whatever bowls and cups the group has left — this is a communal, one-pot camp meal, not a plated course.

In the series

Season 1

S1E9 · ~00:22:00 The team cooks a foraged stew for their 'Doomcoming' party using stored berries and mushrooms; Akilah, a former Girl Scout, identifies and pulls a poisonous mushroom before it goes in the pot

In the series

This is the stew the group cooks for their "Doomcoming" dance — a scrappy, foraged one-pot meal that becomes accidentally significant when Misty's mushrooms end up in it and the whole camp gets unknowingly high. Buried inside the chaos is a real moment of competence: Akilah, drawing on actual Girl Scout training, is the one who correctly identifies and pulls a genuinely poisonous mushroom out of the pot before anyone eats it.

Ingredients

8 cups vegetable or light meat stock
1 lb mixed wild mushrooms (chanterelle, oyster, or cremini), roughly torn
2 cups mixed foraged or store-bought berries (blackberries, huckleberries, or blueberries)
2 wild onions or 1 yellow onion, chopped
2 handfuls wild greens or spinach, chopped
Salt

Method

Bring the stock to a simmer in a large pot.
Add the onion and simmer until softened, about 10 minutes.
Add the mushrooms and simmer until tender, another 10 minutes — only ever use mushrooms you can positively identify as edible, or store-bought varieties.
Stir in the berries in the last few minutes of cooking, letting them soften and release a little of their juice into the broth without fully breaking down.
Add the wild greens just before serving so they wilt but keep some color. Season with salt and ladle out hot.

Substitutions

Wild mushrooms: Store-bought oyster, shiitake, or cremini mushrooms are the safe, reliable substitute — never forage mushrooms for this recipe unless you can identify them with total certainty, exactly as the show's own scene insists on.
Wild berries: Any combination of blackberries and blueberries from a grocery store gives the same sweet-tart contrast against the savory broth.