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jp

Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Posts: 302
Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 13 6:57 pm Post subject:
I've collected loads of Orange Birch Boletes & Orange Oak Boletes (this year has been especially good for the latter) & like them alot especially when combined with even more tasty Boletes like Ceps. They are big, solid, meaty shrooms like Ceps. Don't worry about the colours they go when cut - just make sure you are 100% positive of your ID.

bubble

Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 13 8:28 am Post subject:
some of this years ceps

bubble

Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 13 8:31 am Post subject:
some more of this years

DorsetScott

Joined: 23 Oct 2011
Posts: 500
Location: Bournemouth

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 13 9:18 am Post subject:
Jeez, check you out Bubble. What do you do with your shaggy ink caps? I've made soup with them which I found kinda average, otherwise they just seem flacid and bland when I've cooked them. Any super recipes or do you just use them as filler?

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 13 10:29 am Post subject:
Impressive hauls indeed. I'm rather jealous.

bubble

Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 13 4:00 pm Post subject:
shaggy is a fantastic mushroom ,you fry it in olive oil and butter,add grated garlic ,dry white wine,salt and pepper, and serve with fresh parmesan ,a super flavour mushroom!!!!!!

DorsetScott

Joined: 23 Oct 2011
Posts: 500
Location: Bournemouth

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 13 9:14 pm Post subject:
If/when I get my hands on some this year I'll give that a go. Cheers

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4626
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Sat Oct 12, 13 10:49 pm Post subject:
I spied an awesome crop of mushrooms this evening, will take out camera tomorrow in the hopes of getting some ID. They were brown/lighter underneath, growing all over a tree stump in grassland. Smelled faintly mushroomy. Were mushroom shaped...... I do envy the basketfuls here though!

DorsetScott

Joined: 23 Oct 2011
Posts: 500
Location: Bournemouth

Posted: Sun Oct 13, 13 6:06 pm Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

I spied an awesome crop of mushrooms this evening, will take out camera tomorrow in the hopes of getting some ID. They were brown/lighter underneath, growing all over a tree stump in grassland. Smelled faintly mushroomy. Were mushroom shaped......

I do envy the basketfuls here though!

Would need to see pictures to be sure, but from the description, it does sound very much like mushrooms

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4626
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Sun Oct 13, 13 7:34 pm Post subject:

DorsetScott wrote:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

I do envy the basketfuls here though!

Would need to see pictures to be sure, but from the description, it does sound very much like mushrooms

Woo! I'm a genius!

So clever I completely forgot to walk that way today. Duuuuh.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 13 7:08 am Post subject:
Can I just ask..... will there be anything worth foraging in mid November? Or is this too late?

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 13 7:23 am Post subject:
Visited Down House (Charles Darwin's home) at the weekend. They have a whole field set aside for nothing but fungi! The field looked empty, but the woods were absolutely heaving with several different kinds - took plenty of photos and will try to identify later.

DorsetScott

Joined: 23 Oct 2011
Posts: 500
Location: Bournemouth

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 13 10:50 am Post subject:

Lorrainelovesplants wrote:

Can I just ask.....
will there be anything worth foraging in mid November? Or is this too late?

Should still be some stuff worth getting. Blewitts should be around and I picked Winter Chanterelles until christmas last year to name a couple. Someone like bubble can probably reel off a huge list of stuff which will be around.

banana1522

Joined: 08 Oct 2013
Posts: 13

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 13 11:57 am Post subject:
Thanks for your comments on the orange boletes peeps. Full moon coming up.. Need to get one more foray in before the cold gets the ceps! Bubble - what part of the world are you in?? Not asking for your spots (I have my own anyway ) just curious about what part o the world you are foraging.

Somewhere-by-the-river

Joined: 16 Sep 2013
Posts: 56
Location: West Wales

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 13 3:36 pm Post subject:
Wow! And to think we here were only just lamenting the lack of mushrooms on our patch! Have only ever found a few edibles to cook so far, and those just generally taste of whatever you cook them with/in - still hunting for the elusive gourmets...

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