Fungi foraging

[Lotobear]

...there was a previous thread (I think) but I couldn't seem to find it.

Anywuz, how's it going this season? Very, very quiet here so far (Cumbria) - there was a flush of Porcini a few weeks ago but as usual I found them too late.

I also missed a massive flush of chicken of the woods by around 3 days by which time they were a bit old and woody.

Is it a poor season everywhere and has the cold wet Summer had an impact?

[Mobile Chicane]

Next to eff all near me.

Unless there's a week or so of late summer sun that might get them sprouting.

[Lotobear]

Just pulled up a lovely fairly fresh large Porcini when out with the dogs late this afternoon - hopefully the season is late and there are more to come?

...now what to make with it, something with taglietelle perhaps?

[Lotobear]

nuyorican said:

Ooh, thanks for the reminder. It's that time of year.

Seen a few of those guys recently, but I left them back in my youth.

[Mobile Chicane]

Lotobear said:

Just pulled up a lovely fairly fresh large Porcini when out with the dogs late this afternoon - hopefully the season is late and there are more to come?

...now what to make with it, something with taglietelle perhaps?

I fry it in butter with garlic, stir into pasta and scatter over blue cheese.

This year has been a strange one. Normally by mid-October the fungi trigger has been well and truly 'pulled', but I've noticed slim pickings in previous years when the summer was wet and cold.

[Grumbler]

I’m gonna eat this! It’s velvety and ….girthy.

[Grumbler]

Pudding.

[Mr Magooagain]

Hedgehog mushrooms picked this afternoon.

[mikef]

Hydnum repandum - had some at the weekend, always good

It’s been a poor year for mushrooming here in Sussex as well

[Silvanus]

Porcini were a total no show on my local patch, not even many bovine bolettes. Thankfully been a bumper crop of hedgehogs and winter chantelle. Not found any blewits yet.

[TGCOTF-dewey]

Grumbler said:

I’m gonna eat this! It’s velvety and ….girthy.

That reminds me, I need to get my widowed mother a birthday present.

[Mobile Chicane]

Mr Magooagain said:

Hedgehog mushrooms picked this afternoon.

Nice! Personally I find them a bit bitter, especially as they get older. Phillips did them in a cream sauce with cider (iirc), which seems a good way of counteracting this.

My part of Surrey has been a bit rubbish this year. Not much of note.

[Mr Magooagain]

Mobile Chicane said:

Mr Magooagain said:

Hedgehog mushrooms picked this afternoon.

Nice! Personally I find them a bit bitter, especially as they get older. Phillips did them in a cream sauce with cider (iirc), which seems a good way of counteracting this.

My part of Surrey has been a bit rubbish this year. Not much of note.

We just pan fry in a very small amount of butter along with shallots and add garlic and parsley. Never found them bitter though.
Ceps have been decent this year but I’ve only had time to look a couple of times.

I’m in France by the way so my hedgehog mushrooms are called ‘Pied de Mouton’ (feet of sheep)

[Silvanus]

Mobile Chicane said:

Mr Magooagain said:

Hedgehog mushrooms picked this afternoon.

Nice! Personally I find them a bit bitter, especially as they get older. Phillips did them in a cream sauce with cider (iirc), which seems a good way of counteracting this.

My part of Surrey has been a bit rubbish this year. Not much of note.

I try and pick the small ones when there's plenty about, no bitterness with the little buttons

[Lotobear]

Ended up with a few decent Porcini a few weeks ago but it's been a really poor year for them.

A lot of wood blewits have popped up next to the beech trees into our estate but i've left them as they tend to disagree with me or at least did when I once tried them

[Mobile Chicane]

Lotobear said:

Ended up with a few decent Porcini a few weeks ago but it's been a really poor year for them.

A lot of wood blewits have popped up next to the beech trees into our estate but i've left them as they tend to disagree with me or at least did when I once tried them

Blewits need to be very thoroughly cooked. Even then, as with any fungi species they can disagree with some people.

Antonio Carluccio recommended limiting alcohol portions when eating wild mushrooms, which I can identify with. I've found in the past - before I knew about such interactions - that hangovers were far worse after eating wild mushrooms than not.

[otolith]

Poor this year. Found a parasol and a few ceps last month (and about a million poisonous earthballs) but nothing else doing.

[Silvanus]

otolith said:

Poor this year. Found a parasol and a few ceps last month (and about a million poisonous earthballs) but nothing else doing.

I've noticed the same earth balls everywhere

[Silvanus]

Mobile Chicane said:

Lotobear said:

Ended up with a few decent Porcini a few weeks ago but it's been a really poor year for them.

A lot of wood blewits have popped up next to the beech trees into our estate but i've left them as they tend to disagree with me or at least did when I once tried them

Blewits need to be very thoroughly cooked. Even then, as with any fungi species they can disagree with some people.

Antonio Carluccio recommended limiting alcohol portions when eating wild mushrooms, which I can identify with. I've found in the past - before I knew about such interactions - that hangovers were far worse after eating wild mushrooms than not.

I love blewits, one of my favourites

[Mobile Chicane]

Silvanus said:

I love blewits, one of my favourites

Oh mine too. Who knows, perhaps colder weather will bring a bit of a flush?