Four, usually but fried them with a chop and last nights mash, maybe an omelette tm.
Where are the mushrooms?
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Johnny Vodka
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Although I got my ceps patch nearby, gonna go a long walk further afield at the weekend in search of chanterelles and liberty caps. 
Rain 2moz, so that should encourage the shrooms out. 
Rain 2moz, so that should encourage the shrooms out. Johnny Vodka
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Anyone continue their hunt for wild mushrooms into winter? Velvet shanks and oyster mushrooms should be around. A few years back my dad picked some velvet shanks from a tree nearby, though he reckons someone then totally stripped it. I think I will go out today and have a look, just in case they've come back.
I just stick to the ceps and chantys, so will wait till summer.
Johnny Vodka
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The good thing about velvet shanks is there isn't much else around at this time of year that they can be mistaken for. Not meant to be the tastiest mushroom ever, but I still want to try them.
Gd luck.The good thing about velvet shanks is there isn't much else around at this time of year that they can be mistaken for. Not meant to be the tastiest mushroom ever, but I still want to try them.
Did you find any.
Johnny Vodka
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Better luck next time, hey.nope
Johnny Vodka
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Johnny Vodka
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Loads of people sharing pics of chicken of the woods on Faceache. Never seen one in real life - been too dry here to start looking for funghi.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
There's a felled oak trunk I pass every day in a park on the way home that had a decent bloom a couple of years ago - but it's very definitely at dog level ...
story
Gone for a Burton
I didn't know about this thread, so I didn't post when it happened, but I got some lovely dryad's saddle back in May. I spotted it growing last year on my way to work one day, but by the time I was coming home, someone had kicked it off the tree stump and trampled it into the mud.
This year, I took it on my way to work when it was at the perfect point: large enough to be worth harvesting, but not so large as to be fibrous. I carried it on the Tube and had it at work all day long. I kept peeking into the bag and stroking it: it really does look like a pheasant's furry feathery back.
Sliced it up and fried some of it in butter for my tea that night and dried the rest.
It's not especially epicurean, but it's free and it's tasty enough.
And I know where there are St. George mushrooms here in Brixton too. And fairy ring champignons. And the honey fungus nearest to me is the kind that is tasty and you don't have to boil it first.
This year, I took it on my way to work when it was at the perfect point: large enough to be worth harvesting, but not so large as to be fibrous. I carried it on the Tube and had it at work all day long. I kept peeking into the bag and stroking it: it really does look like a pheasant's furry feathery back.
Sliced it up and fried some of it in butter for my tea that night and dried the rest.
It's not especially epicurean, but it's free and it's tasty enough.
And I know where there are St. George mushrooms here in Brixton too. And fairy ring champignons. And the honey fungus nearest to me is the kind that is tasty and you don't have to boil it first.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I've started growing champignon and chestnut mushrooms, with varying degrees of success, and I'm trying to grow shii take, which I'm getting nowhere with at the moment, but I am enjoying the learning curve.
I'm getting the hang of it now, so I just ordered three strains of psilocybe cubensis spores
I'm getting the hang of it now, so I just ordered three strains of psilocybe cubensis spores
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
I've seen dryad's before, but didn't realise it was edible. I don't like St George's - really does smell and taste of flour! I've thought of a few new walks I can try nearby for shrooms. Probably try one mushroom walk a month starting late July (the earliest I've seen ceps).
story
Gone for a Burton
Dryad's saddle is a bit peppery, not very mushroomy. I usually add other mushrooms in as well. Thtxture is nice though. Take the saddle before it gets too big and fibrous. Use the main body, don't bother with the stem.
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