penny buns?

[twosmokeforever]

any one found any boletes on our island yet?

found some lovely earth stars and birch polypores yesterday (not food items) but still none of the good stuff, and I was hoping for a bit of luck since all of the rain

[AdrianRose]

All fungi is late this year. I spend most of my year foraging and keep accurate records of what species, location, amount gathered, weather patterns preceding collection etc etc

I've been looking back over last years records and so far we are 3 weeks and two days late for the first Penny Buns and false Boletes like the Birch Boletes.

Although I did find some Trumpet Chanterelles last Sunday. I'm travelling down to the New forest tomorrow so hopefully more fungi news to follow.

Ade.

[dannyreid1978]

Found this one little fella a couple of week back but some wee little slug beat me to it! It's the only one I've found... And I've been hunting trust me!

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/09/27/jabema4u.jpg

[TreeCamper]

Hi Ade

Can you help with this little fellow please


5486

Thank you

TC

[fish]

hey ade take yer camera!

[twosmokeforever]

jackpot

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p47/2smokeforever/mushroomhunting.jpg

bolete & saffron milkcaps with game pie, boiled spuds & plenty of gravey

[AdrianRose]

Hi Ade

Can you help with this little fellow please


5486

Thank you

TC

Looks like a member of the Boletus genus but without more pictures of the stipe and underside it would be irresponsible of me to say one way or another.

Ade.

[AdrianRose]

hey ade take yer camera!

Just arrived in Salisbury, so off to the New Forest in the morning.

Video gear is all charged up and ready to roll buddy.

Ade.

[AL...]

Have a good un Ade and look forward to the Vid or pic's or both :D

Cheers
AL

[_Matt_]

I found a couple of large purple staining boletes (not sure which) a couple of months ago actually, i thought it must be quite early for them at the time.
Also while I'm here does anyone have any tips for preparing birch boletes? Last year they were very abundant but the ones i attempted to eat were very spongy and chewy and definitely not palatable.

[AdrianRose]

I found a couple of large purple staining boletes (not sure which) a couple of months ago actually, i thought it must be quite early for them at the time.
Also while I'm here does anyone have any tips for preparing birch boletes? Last year they were very abundant but the ones i attempted to eat were very spongy and chewy and definitely not palatable.

Best thing to do with Birch Boletes is to discard the stipe (stem) and peel away the pore layer underneath the cap, it will come away very easily.
They are great then just sliced and put into stews or casseroles.

Ade.

[AdrianRose]

Well how disappointing!!

I've just got back from 5 hrs in the New Forest after a year of anticipation and didn't find a single edible fungi.

In fact there were very few fungi at all. We did find an old COTW but it was on a Yew tree so that was a no go.

Other than that, there was a couple of Death Caps, a Panther Cap, loads of Earth Balls (non-edible), a couple of Ruusula emetica and a rotten deer corpse!!

Oh well, there's always next year. Lol.

Ade.

[happybonzo]

Have you ever had any success finding Truffles in the UK?

[Geoff Dann]

Have you ever had any success finding Truffles in the UK?

Unless you have a trained dog, you are more likely to win the lottery than find a truffle.

[Geoff Dann]

There are no boletes about in Sussex at the moment. Quite a lot of other stuff is about, but the only really good non-expert-level edible about at the moment is hedgehog fungus. Other edible species I found today include deceivers, amethyst deceivers, various amanitas and russulas, and stinkhorn eggs.

I think the lack of boletes may have something to do with them being messed up last year by the heatwave in October. A lot of boletes came out in the middle of November, much later than normal, along with the agaricuses. And it is the boletes and agaricuses that are currently AWOL.

[twosmokeforever]

still only on one bolete so far, but we had lawyers wig or shaggy ink cap last night for the first time and it was good

and we have plenty of honey fungus (armillaria mellea) to try next, but this is another one that can cause stomach upsets in some people. Is it worth a bite?

[twosmokeforever]

Well how disappointing!!

I've just got back from 5 hrs in the New Forest after a year of anticipation and didn't find a single edible fungi.

In fact there were very few fungi at all. We did find an old COTW but it was on a Yew tree so that was a no go.

Other than that, there was a couple of Death Caps, a Panther Cap, loads of Earth Balls (non-edible), a couple of Ruusula emetica and a rotten deer corpse!!

Oh well, there's always next year. Lol.

Ade.


that is good bunch of poison, do we think that the chicken of the wood would be poisionous because of the yew? and it took me a minute or two to figure out cotw

[AdrianRose]

Oops sorry about the COTW abbreviation, force of habit and laziness on my part I'm afraid.

Yep your right buddy, wouldn't eat any shroom growing on Yew due to the absorption of toxins from the host tree.

Ade.

[Geoff Dann]

still only on one bolete so far, but we had lawyers wig or shaggy ink cap last night for the first time and it was good

and we have plenty of honey fungus (armillaria mellea) to try next, but this is another one that can cause stomach upsets in some people. Is it worth a bite?

Yes, but you need to roast/fry the hell out of it. Stick a load in the roasting dish with a joint of something fatty, and just let them sizzle for an hour.

ETA: caps only. I suspect they'd be brilliant deep fried, but I don't have a deep frier.

[twosmokeforever]

will freeze them for now and use them roasted woody or game pie, will have to get out with the gun 1st

the misses is fragile so I will give them a ten minute parboil

[Hathor]

Over here in the Czech Republic, the forests are full of people foraging for boletes in June / July when the season starts. However, at this time of year when it is colder, the forests are empty of people and full of all sorts of fungi.

I landed a bumper haul today which are currently being cooked, frozen and dried. Yesterday, I found my first ever boletus luridus, a good 15 cms across at least. Great specimen and well chuffed.

[_Matt_]

Best thing to do with Birch Boletes is to discard the stipe (stem) and peel away the pore layer underneath the cap, it will come away very easily.
They are great then just sliced and put into stews or casseroles.

Ade.

Finally tried, with a young firm specimen this time. Tasted good! Removing the pores (surprising just how cleanly they come away) clearly did the trick and made it taste like a normal mushroom instead of a waterlogged sponge.