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blowin · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:29 am Post subject: collecting edible wild fungi

This is a bit of a hobby of mine . So far I've found field & wood mushrooms , amythist / deceiver , hedgehog , wood blewit , several different boletes , jews ear , one of the darkish types of chanterelle , ink cap , shaggy parasol and several lookalikes I just don't think are worth the risk .
Oh , and several giant puffballs but I couldn't get to them . But in looking for them I'm amazed at how many fields in the middle of nowhere have a football in them . Miles away from where you'd expect kids to play . Do you put them in to keep horses amused or something like that ?
Is anyone else into this interesting and tasty wild food ?

tringle · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject:

I dont eat mushrooms(dont shout at me, I just never liked the taste) but darling husband loves them. Im terrified of picking them for fear of not knowing waht they are.

so...blowin, for an autumn meet would you like to organise a fungie expedidtion for us all and the idiots among us can learn waht is safe to pick and what is a widow maker
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blowin · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:53 am Post subject:

Haha , "beginners" , not "idiots" . IMHO the real idiots are the tv program makers who show a celebrity chef pick 15 varieties in as many yards . This can only disillusion the novice because they simply do not grow like that . Alternatively it might do him a serious mischief because the red one the chef cooked has a very common and very dangerous look-alike which he didn't mention !
I think it's a great idea to get together for a forage and I will be happy to tell/show what I can . Please just bear in mind that I am an enthusiastic amateur rather than an expert ( so don't sue me if you poison yourself ) . There are 3 or 4 quite common fungi which are good to eat , very easy to identify and are certain to be the topic of conversation when you serve them up on toast .

wayland · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1163 Location: Campile. Wexford

Now I know that I am going to spell it wrong but, you dont know by any chance where any Psylacibii grow. Do you ? Cool

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blowin · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject:

"Silly 'shrooms all over my fields Shocked

gai · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 83 Location: Co Donegal

Loads of shaggy parasols here. They grow in the hen run and the sheep field. I had so many last year that I dried lots. I wouldn't be too sure of identifying any others though.
The football in the field thing is for lambs, I kid you not. Young lambs love to play with footballs and even when they grow up and move on the football usually gets left for the next batch. I'm serious, I've got 2 in my own field.

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gai · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 83 Location: Co Donegal

Huge Shaggy Parasol fritters with crisp crunchy batter - mmmmmmmmm. Very Happy

Can't do that with the dried ones though. Crying or Very sad

blowin · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:02 am Post subject:

Sounds lovely . I wonder whether you could flash fry then freeze . Batter when thawed prior to cooking ?

Has anyone seen Caulilower fungus over here ? Don't worry about the precise i/d for now . They look like a slightly open-textured , off white to yellow-brownish cauliflower , invariably growing at the base of connifer . These are nice , particularly in soup . They are quite easy to identify but there are a couple of look-alikes which aren't so good so you would want a bit more detail than I have given above before eating your find .

wayoutwest · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 184 Location: west clare

ooo, a mushroom finding meet - now that sounds like a great idea. We've both wanted to do that for ages.

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