Mushroom foraging

picked 6 lbs of sweet chestnuts from epping forest today
loads about and looking good too, nice big fat nuts

somethings gonna get a good stuffing this xmas

With all due respect, chestnuts are not mushrooms. These are mushrooms;

These are chestnut mushrooms:

http://www.hub-uk.com/vegetables/chestnut-mushroom.htm

Mushroom Chestnuts from Asia

there weren';t all t6hat many mushies around to be truthful
scoured under oak trees for porcini / cepe's but noting obvious

i looked a for a wild foraging thread but there were none

i was just bursting to show people my haul !

Mushroom Chestnuts from Asia

Three attempts at a Rick Roll?

10 minutes in the Internet for Dummies sin bin >>>

I know :-(

i looked a for a wild foraging thread but there were none

Your fu is weak.

Foraging Forumagers

i'll take my sweet chestnuts somewhere they will be appreciated then

goodbye

Does anyone know what these are?

Apeared on the rear grassy slope overnight.

If you don't know what they are NEVER eat a fungus.

Just sayin'.

Dicki those chestnuts look lush. I adore them, just haven't had a chance to go out yet this year ...

If you don't know what they are NEVER eat a fungus.

Just sayin'.

Yeah I know, which is why I'm asking here...

Sorry, didn't mean to patronize.

Is cool.

Dicki those chestnuts look lush. I adore them, just haven't had a chance to go out yet this year ...

other foraging thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Pans perhaps? (Panaeolus)

Anyone had much this year?

My missus bought me a 'wild food' book for my birthday a month back and ever since I read the first section on mushrooms, I've been obsessed.

Had a bit of Ox-Tongue fungus - didn't cook it well enough and it was a bit bitter and some shaggy parasols which were delicious.

Missed out on some chicken of the woods as I was a passenger in a car at the time and the driver wouldn't pull over and bottled eating Boletus Luridus as it has to be cooked properly.

^what book did you get?

You spotted and identified mushrooms from a moving car? You are obsessed!

Was bought "Wild food" by Roger Phillips: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781447249962?redirected=true&viewCountry=UK&selectCurrency=GBP&gclid=CIzkp62xysACFVDItAod-xIACA

It gives you some good general tips on foraging but it's not fungi specific and is in no way an identification guide, it's more a recipe book on what to make once you've got the goods.

The Mushroom guide I'm using is Mushrooms and Toadstools by David N Pegler which I bought in oxfam. It's a great bit of work, brilliantly illustrated and with a helpful key to show you where the fungi may be found, what they look like, whether they're deadly poisonous, poisonous, inedible/unpleasant, edible after cooking, edible and excellent. (Doesn't do bracket fungi though.)

There's plenty of decent guides online which I read as well.

It was large and yellow and growing on a tree, but yes, I am obsessed.

Got 2lbs of Bullace's over the weekend. So I'll be making a version of Sloe gin. :)

They are a lot easier to pick than sloes too, no thorns on the trees!