Mushroom hunting

I love chanterelles sauted in butter and sprinkled with parsley.

Topped on Pizza with walnuts sounds delicious as well,
I have to try that.

As will I.

So how about you making the pizza with chanterelles
gustav, and invite me?

No, Jane. You frighten me.

I like that!

:wink:


(rare emoticon usage)

gustav used an emoticon!

Only because he was at a loss for words.....

<hip-bumps cjane outta the way>

I wanna scare Gus!!

Me too, me too! We should throw a chanterelle pizza party for Gus.

Chanterelles in cream and bread dumpling
Chaterelles, onions, green beans, tomatoes, bacon, and French Bread
Ravioli filled with boletus
Strudel with either chanterelles or boletus

BTW, the city of Vienna offeres free inspection of your wild mushrooms.

Forgot the all time favorite:
risotto

risotto! strudel! Of course! how could i forget. boletus ANYTHING is great.

We went hiking today around Concord, MA, and found these mushrooms clustered up under a beech tree. I wonder what they are. Been staring into all sorts of guides online, and am leaning towards a Honey mushroom, which there are many kinds of. It has a yellow cap (concave) with brownish center, ring (that falls off on older ones), tough stem with sort of threads around, spore print that is white, sort of sweet/almost soapy smell.... Like honey mushrooms, these were under a tree in big clusters. Honey mushrooms are parasitic that way, so that would fit. They are also edible.

...the problem is that they also kinda look like Jack O'Lantern (Omphalotus Olearius) mushroom.... which is poisonous.

I know my mushrooms in Slovakia. Here I only know 2-3 kinds. I want to learn.... anyone a mushroom expert here? What is my beaut below?

and this is from online: Armillaria mellea or honey mushroom

Not an expert (hmmm, my eye doc is, but she's back in no. california).

Listening for now...

Leave it to Dasha to go grocery shopping on a hike.....

nothing cheaper and fresher than produce picked in the forest!

Mushrooms, apples, pears! It was quite a bounty. We should have picked those crab apples, too.

We also found these weird things and neither of us have any idea what they might be. You can see the coloration in this photo and get a sense of size from the leaf litter. The shape is ........ knobby. It's definitely plant material, it was tough when we pushed against it, had a slightly rubbery texture to the skin. It looked shriveled. Anyone have any idea what it might be?