Mr Celine
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Now he tells us!
This one was in my garden last summer. There was a smaller one as well, edible but not particularly tasty.
Can I eat them?
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Now he tells us!
This one was in my garden last summer. There was a smaller one as well, edible but not particularly tasty.
Reynard
Guru
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As I mentioned a page or two ago, they're not really worth the effort. I suspect the poncy restaurants flog them for their novelty value as opposed to their actual culinary worth...
Mr Celine
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Great fun for practicing free kicks though!
I would advise against picking mushrooms in a minefield.Wouldn't bother me - am teetotal
I just stick to the puffballs, else I just nip to Mr Tesco for my mushrooms. Just too much of a minefield. I did go picking boletes and other mushrooms in Poland, but I was with someone who knew what they were doing.
It's common ink caps, not shaggies - the alcohol thing. But I agree shaggy ink caps are one of the best mushrooms to eat and very easy to ID.
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
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smutchin
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Just took the dog for a walk in the woods - should have taken a basket, it was mushroom heaven in there this evening. Only trouble is it would have been like playing Russian roulette when you have no idea how many of the barrels are loaded...
smutchin
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robjh
Legendary Member
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- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
I love mushroom season, but stick to a few varieties that I can identify reliably (and even then, spend some time paging through my big mushroom book if there's anything 'different' about them).
Here's one that we had for breakfast in Brittany a couple of weeks back
Here's one that we had for breakfast in Brittany a couple of weeks back
smutchin
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Loads more shrooms spotted on today's dog walk, including these specimens that I'm 99% certain are edible boletus* - it's just that 1% uncertainty that puts me off actually trying them...
*I checked under the caps and they were definitely spongey, not gilled.
*I checked under the caps and they were definitely spongey, not gilled.
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That's either a brown birch bolete or an orange bb in a light that makes it look brown. Lots of people eat both but they have been known to upset some people, and having tried a bbb I wouldn't bother again!
smutchin
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Thanks for the identification. Looking at pictures on the web, I reckon they're more likely to be the orange rather than the brown. I might even risk eating them next time I see some - this site reckons they're safe as long as they're well cooked: http://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guides/orange-birch-bolete-mushroom/
gbb
Squire
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I took a small, one home and cooked it. Couldn't see what the fuss was about..very subtlety woody taste, not memorable in any other way, wouldn't waste my time again.
gbb
Squire
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- Peterborough
As kids we lived on a disused airbase and mushroom season would see us walking the airfield at daybreak finding many monsters like that, the white flesh on ours were about 1 inch thick.....oh and the black juice you got when frying them
.Button mushrooms....not even on the same page.
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