Good year for mushrooms

Penny bun and Orange Birch bolete, this is about half of the ones we have found recently. We don’t normally get so many, they obviously liked the drought the. rain…

We’ve also found lots of field mushrooms, although there have been other years with more of them

Super cool fungus!

Jew’s ear (or jelly ear or wood ear)

Tends to grow on dead elder trees. Is edible but not exciting (apparently, we can’t fancy trying it!)

It is growing in the chicken enclosure.

Many mushrooms

 It is later this year than last that we got a good haul of mushrooms up the mountain (can’t tell you where!! Too secret!)

Field mushrooms

We had them fried for breakfast, in carbonara, fried on toast (with cream and lemon), and cream of mushroom soup. Delicious.

They are pretty too. We check each and every one carefully to make sure it is what we think it is, the colour of the gills varies from pale pink to dark brown, never eat anything with white gills!

Mushroom season

Doug does most the picking. Of course it is a scary subject, but we stick to things we know well and that don't have to many similar dangerous cousins.

These are field mushrooms. Don't eat anything that looks kind of like these but with white gills. They are Destroying Angels. Can't be good with a name like that!

Yummy on pizza

Yummy with steak