The shortning evenings and misty morning signifying the rapid approach of autumn bring with them an exciting harvest from the forest. Exciting for two reasons, because they're very tasty and that there's no gaurentee you'll find any.
Not long after I got home from a brief work trip to Finland on Friday evening we were out "hunting" for these little treasures in the forest. During the past couple of days dog walking Mrs VL had spotted a few here and there so our hopes of success were good.
And good they were, never before has one trip yielded such a harvest. Over the weekend we've enjoyed Chanterelles on Toast, Chanterelle and Crab Claw Sandwhiches and A Chanterelle omlette. All thourghly delicious. Here's a quick taster of the first pickings, hopefully there'll be a couple more like this.
2 comments:
Is it possible to find out which mushrooms are poisonous, and which aren't? We have many in the forests round here, but are afraid to pick them 'cos we don't know...
The golden rule of mushrooms is that if you aren't 100% sure don't eat them.... and unfortunately there's no hard and fast rule.
I've been with someone who picked many kinds of Mushrooms and to be honest most of them aren't that special.
Chanterelles on the other hand are wonderful, pretty easy to recognise and once you know what they look like you can't muddle them up anything dangerous.
We've also got loads of these (many more than chanterelle) in our forest and this says these are good for eating http://www.wormnes.no/soppsiden/soppene/seks_sikre/piggsopp.htm
Maybe we'll try these as well, but for the time being we'll stick with what we know is very good.
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