anyone going picking the normal mushrooms :)

bassy

used to do it yrs ago and there plentyful,are the still plentyful?
anyone still do it ?

it,s that time of the year

Gremlinertia

It'd be another month or so before i'd be looking for them although there were some early ones a few weeks back..

bassy

can,t bate the little cups with a wee bit of butter and salt in them,oh the juice

Gremlinertia

Stop you'll have me drooling.. Was always bemused by the fact that cattle seemed to hate them so much, would absolutely mash them into the ground

bassy

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Stop you'll have me drooling.. Was always bemused by the fact that cattle seemed to hate them so much, would absolutely mash them into the ground

aye unreal and the white freshness looked so delicious,steak chips onions mushrooms tomorrow with pepper sauce

Gremlinertia

Ooh i have mushrooms at home, some eggs, rashers and boxty be just the job.

bassy

stop this talk,to late for me to start cooking lol or should i say deep fat fryer hardly cooking lol

Gremlinertia

I'll be home around nine, thinking now that i might chill out with a nice Bassy inspired breakfast, cheers

bassy

Gremlinertia wrote: »

I'll be home around nine, thinking now that i might chill out with a nice Bassy inspired breakfast, cheers

your more than welcome grem

Gremlinertia

Roll on september, i'll be out the fields collecting bags of them

bassy

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Roll on september, i'll be out the fields collecting bags of them

pick the fresh white ones grem cause if you pick the wrong ones then there could be a very funny meal to be had

Poor Uncle Tom

Have to go grazing now.....

upupup

I started picking shaggy inkcaps a few years ago,very tasty in a soup,not so good to fry though.

54and56

Glad to see this thread.

My father (long dead) used to be a train driver and would often be rostered on the overnight mail train. One of my abiding childhood memories are of him arriving home around 7am, waking us all up and telling us he had spotted mushrooms blossoming in various fields along the train tracks and we'd pack up into the car with loads of shopping bags and go picking.

We'd often pick so much that we'd call into family members on the way home dropping off bags of freshly picked mushrooms.

When we'd get home we'd have the obligatory mushroom focused fry up (dipping white bread into the juice!!) and then my mother would make batches of mushroom soup which would be frozen and used over the winter.

Happy days indeed.

I've forgotten the rules of picking mushrooms but plan to go gathering with my own kids this year so hope this video is of some use to others like me who need a bit of advice or a reminder on how to do it both safely and successfully.

AllForIt

--- The Year of The Mushrooms ---

I recall one year in my teens, one field a mile from our house when crazy producing mushrooms for a forthright so. Why that field I don't know except there was sheep grazing in it unlike the surrounding fields. We took home buckets of them daily. They were the size of a closed fist upwards with pink gills. Totally delicious with a taste I can still remember, never tasted since, and can not be reproduced with anything one can buy in a supermarket.

Never seen anything like it since.


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