Fabulous fungi

[Paul T]

Mark,

While I understand why you're wanting a scale, having a finger in there would ruin the beautiful artistry of the photos.   Seems a shame to do that.

[David Lyttle]

A little more about edible mushrooms. There are some species which appears in early spring. They look strange and funny but you can eat them after boiling in two waters.

Olga,

I have just picked up on this thread: your photographs of Myxomycetes are amazing.  Also are you not showing us two different fungi here, Morchella (the morel) and  Gyromitra (the false morel).  I have eaten the former (delicious) but I would not eat the latter. We have a similar species in New Zealand Gyromitra tasmanica that also appears in spring.

Each year in May we hold a national Fungal Foray in New Zealand which attracts a number of international participants. We have a Swedish gentleman who comes quite regularly and also an American expert on myxomycetes.  Each year it is held in a different locality. People go out in the field and collect mushrooms. They are identified and recorded. There is a very diverse group of people involved both lay people and experts so ignorance is no barrier to participation.

[gote]

John, Maggi, Gunilla 

Maggy, not only dry. Many kinds of fungy could be cooked like cabbage by fermentation. Or conserved in marinade. It is very tasty!

Fantastic pictures Olga.
You inspire me to go out ald look but this has been a bad year last one was good.

I usually fry them to get rid of surplus water then freeze in lots suitable for a meal as vedgetable or in a sauce.

Tallyho
Göte

[mark smyth]

I dont mean in every photo. One here and there.

[gote]

Someone asked: Why do Anglosaxons not eat wild fungi.
I think the reason is that they traditionally eat a very limited number of foodstuffs.
There is simply no tradition of a varied diet.
Most people I know in the UK would refuse to eat frog's legs, and snails. A frend of mine in the UK considers perch, which is a very good fish indeed, inedible.
Some years ago a piece of moose beef (Alces alces)appeared in an American soap opera. It was treated as an embarrasment since nobody would eat it.
Here the joke fell flatly to the ground since this is considered a very healthy and delicate (and expensive) meat.
By the way: The Tricholoma matsutake which is found only in north Sweden is sold to Japan at around 1000 SEK the kilogramme (Yes about 60 US$/lsb)
I wish I could grow it  (Sigh)
Enjoy your meal
Göte

PS
Is not "The documents in the case" by Dorothy Sayers about murdering someone using Amanita muscaria ?



 

[Ragged Robin]

Do you eat Haggis Gote? 

[Olga Bondareva]

can you put your finger in

I have to manicure before. 

Oh sorry I answer tomorrow. Today we burned out many logs infected bu fungi. I am permeated with smell of bonfire and get tired.

[gote]

Do you eat Haggis Gote? 

Aye
Göte

[Lesley Cox]

PS
Is not "The documents in the case" by Dorothy Sayers about murdering someone using Amanita muscaria ?



 

Yes, and a jolly good book too. Must go back there, and to the others.

[Lesley Cox]

Gote, re the moose beef, are you sure you didn't mean to say "an American soup opera?"

[gote]

Gote, re the moose beef, are you sure you didn't mean to say "an American soup opera?"

That might have been a better name (If I had thougt about it)  I now remember it was called "the west wing" or something similar.
Cheers
Göte

[gote]

Do you eat Haggis Gote? 

Re Haggis (Will we be moved to the cookery thread ?     ) I fail to understand what is supposed to be wrong with it. In Scandinavia very similar food belongs to traditional cooking - only different shape. I had it without bagpipes of course. Maybe it is the sound of it people dislike     
Cheers
Göte
 

[Anthony Darby]

Do you eat Haggis Gote? 

Doesn't everybody?

[Anthony Darby]

What about magic mushroom?

Magic mushrooms are the tiny 'Liberty Caps' (Psylocybe spp.) found in grassy places and once covered every spare shelf in a friend's flat while they dried out. The looked rather like dead tadpoles! No, I didn't try any!

[johnw]

What about magic mushroom?

Magic mushrooms are the tiny 'Liberty Caps' (Psylocybe spp.) found in grassy places and once covered every spare shelf in a friend's flat while they dried out. The looked rather like dead tadpoles! No, I didn't try any!

The front lawn of the main post office here and Citadel Hill, a National Historic Site in the city, were covered in them every autumn. The police called a halt to the many people picking them twenty odd years ago.

johnw