Free Food from a wild Larder

[robjmckinney]

Mushrooms

About a month ago mushrooms appeared in our local park, so out picking I go. The internet provided info that they were edble and duly collected them each day for a nice breakfast.

We shopped the next day, mushrooms 45p a pack, they may be grown in human excrement or whatever, so the 'park' enjoy the benefit of dog pooh!

The final reflection was that I must 'get a life', why the hell was I scratching around looking for mushrooms when you can be safe buying from the supermarket for pennies. Nettle tea, shop tea is dirt cheap and tastes alot better, why bother with possibly poisoning yourself!

 

[Goaskalys]

Hunting for mushrooms

I've been hunting and eating wild mushrooms for years and love it.
The best book on edibles is Patrick harding's book 'How To Identify Edible Mushrooms', published by Collins (ISBN 0-00-219984-X).

Most books on fungi classify them by spore colour which makes them next to useless if you are trying to differentiate between two that look similar. Patrick's book describes the best 50 edibles and how to cook them, but most importantly, after describing each one, shows you on the next page what look-alikes they could be confused with. So when you come across a 'shroom that looks like a 'blueleg' you can easily check that it isn't the poisonous 'Livid Entoloma' that look quite similar....and then you can really enjoy tucking in.

 

[ajs]

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a story...

as it happened.. i was in Upton on seven satdee afternoon late-ish..
market was packing up.

a Fruit and veg stall began bundling differing veg, fruits etc into bags so i went over to look what he was doing

every bag a pond... each bag contained shed loads of stuff... so i spent 5 squid for which i got

2lbs of mushrooms.. closed cup fresh and edible (safe).
2 friggin enormous cauliflowers.
5 lbs of onions
2 lbs of tomatoes
5 lbs of carrots
bags were so friggin heavy i had to go fetch the car... couldn’t carry em

now that's a wild organic larder...
and i don't mind payin a fiver for it as it took me a mere 5 mins to complete
the transaction without gettin covered in mud and ripped to pieces on bramble thorn etc etc



eeegads
aj

 

[runnach]

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a story...

as it happened.. i was in Upton on seven satdee afternoon late-ish..
market was packing up.

a Fruit and veg stall began bundling differing veg, fruits etc into bags so i went over to look what he was doing

every bag a pond... each bag contained shed loads of stuff... so i spent 5 squid for which i got

2lbs of mushrooms.. closed cup fresh and edible (safe).
2 friggin enormous cauliflowers.
5 lbs of onions
2 lbs of tomatoes
5 lbs of carrots
bags were so friggin heavy i had to go fetch the car... couldn’t carry em

now that's a wild organic larder...
and i don't mind payin a fiver for it as it took me a mere 5 mins to complete
the transaction without gettin covered in mud and ripped to pieces on bramble thorn etc etc



eeegads
aj

Good deal AJ I am sure....But int ther summat gratifying about yelping nastid each time you pick a blackberry and its mother branch scrags yer ?

Even more so when the blackberries are committed to a good old crumble with custard .....naturally after an hours digestion ..consumation of whiskeys may commmence.

And tbh English Welsh Afgan Irish I dont give a four x ....if they meks me dizzy ...a good nite .

Chan