DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
3/7 ... I'm dead!
BBC mushroom identification quiz
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I scored 1/7... but i took my old teacher's advice and assumed that all wild mushrooms were poisonous... just to be on the safe side.
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
[QUOTE 3343173, member: 259"]
If I can go for a walk and to a place I know very close to where I live and get a kilo of ceps that I'd have to pay about 50 euros for at the market then I'm happy to nobber along with the best of them. And I can't get bluestalks, which I love, from the shops.
But I'm not confident enough to eat most of what I see, even though I can probably recognise it.[/QUOTE]
Bluestalks, aka bluebuttons or blueys, are often available from greengrocers or on the Victoria market in Nottingham round this time of year. They're not cheap, though!
When I can't find any for myself, I have been known to shell out the extortionate asking price for a couple of hundred grams or so (after checking that they're not full of grubs
). They freeze well; traditional Christmas breakfast chez poacher is blueys gently cooked with butter and served on toast. For the scientifically minded, the ones usually offered are Blewits (Lepista saeva) or occasionally Wood Blewits (L.nuda). Here endeth the lesson.
If I can go for a walk and to a place I know very close to where I live and get a kilo of ceps that I'd have to pay about 50 euros for at the market then I'm happy to nobber along with the best of them. And I can't get bluestalks, which I love, from the shops.
But I'm not confident enough to eat most of what I see, even though I can probably recognise it.[/QUOTE]
Bluestalks, aka bluebuttons or blueys, are often available from greengrocers or on the Victoria market in Nottingham round this time of year. They're not cheap, though!
When I can't find any for myself, I have been known to shell out the extortionate asking price for a couple of hundred grams or so (after checking that they're not full of grubs
). They freeze well; traditional Christmas breakfast chez poacher is blueys gently cooked with butter and served on toast. For the scientifically minded, the ones usually offered are Blewits (Lepista saeva) or occasionally Wood Blewits (L.nuda). Here endeth the lesson.
All fungus is edible. Some of it only once.
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
[QUOTE 3344606, member: 259"]It's a Notts thing, I think! I never thought about freezing them - do you cook them first or just freeze them as is?[/QUOTE]
Clean off any grass etc., trim the stem if needed, cut the caps into segments and freeze raw; no need to defrost, just put in pan with some butter and apply gentle heat.
I'm now salivating just thinking about it!
Clean off any grass etc., trim the stem if needed, cut the caps into segments and freeze raw; no need to defrost, just put in pan with some butter and apply gentle heat.
I'm now salivating just thinking about it!
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
3/7 for me. I used to know much more about mushrooms than I do now. I used to go mushrooming with a friend who was very knowledgeable about them. I never dared go foraging by myself though as some of the edible ones look just like some not so edible ones.
7/7, but only from reading between the lines - I'd have erred on the side of caution and chosen "poisonous" rather than "not tasty" to describe False Chanterelles, as they have been known to give some people pretty nasty stomach upsets. There are all sorts of mushrooms that are considered edible by someone somewhere, but require elaborate preparation in order to stop them making you seriously ill, or react with alcohol 
, or seem to affect some people and not others. Unless you have a particular fascination and are prepared to go into serious detail, the most sensible course of action (for culinary purposes) is to target mushrooms that are both good and safe to eat, to familiarize yourself somewhat obsessively with the few that will definitely kill you and the detail of how you will die, and to ignore everything else (or treat it as ID practice). This annoys both proper mycologists (for whom deliciousness is a frivolous concern) and newbie foragers (who like to have a definitive pronouncement on their finds).
I'm familiar with the Evans case, which is suitably terrifying - although confusing those two mushrooms is not a risk if you practice any form of ID rather than just eating something because it looks kinda harmless. Some people do have the sort of morphological blindness that means they can't tell a Great Bustard from a Blue Tit - unfortunately they don't always know who they are. Talking of Great Bustards...
, or seem to affect some people and not others. Unless you have a particular fascination and are prepared to go into serious detail, the most sensible course of action (for culinary purposes) is to target mushrooms that are both good and safe to eat, to familiarize yourself somewhat obsessively with the few that will definitely kill you and the detail of how you will die, and to ignore everything else (or treat it as ID practice). This annoys both proper mycologists (for whom deliciousness is a frivolous concern) and newbie foragers (who like to have a definitive pronouncement on their finds).I'm familiar with the Evans case, which is suitably terrifying - although confusing those two mushrooms is not a risk if you practice any form of ID rather than just eating something because it looks kinda harmless. Some people do have the sort of morphological blindness that means they can't tell a Great Bustard from a Blue Tit - unfortunately they don't always know who they are. Talking of Great Bustards...
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Bluestalks, aka bluebuttons or blueys, are often available from greengrocers or on the Victoria market in Nottingham round this time of year. They're not cheap, though!
When I can't find any for myself, I have been known to shell out the extortionate asking price for a couple of hundred grams or so (after checking that they're not full of grubs
or bluelegs - maybe that's a Leicestershire name. I used to get lovely wood blewitts in a copse near me for a few years, but may have picked them to extinction
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
It's yer middle classes.... something becomes a fashion, everybody does it, or demands the product (and others get it for them) and the whole feckin' thing collapses... fungi, education, you name it,