Had some chanterelles for dinner last night.
Going to eat the rest for lunch today.
I sautéed them in butter seasoned with salt pepper and a splash of dales seasoning.
Very tasty.
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I need to hit the woods - chanterelles were just starting to emerge a week or so ago, but we’ve had kids visiting from CA, and I just haven’t had time to get out there.
A bunch of boletes have been popping up in the yard, and I harvested some, but cooked some of them, and they were more bitter than I cared for, so I’ve just been distributing caps around to help facilitate their association with the oaks in the yard.
Mowing along the driveway on Friday, there were tons of yellow/orange milkcap mushrooms - and I found a couple of indigo milkcaps (good eating!) under a big Southern Crab (M.angustifolia).
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A damaged maple growing in a nearby park produces a nice bloom of Dryad’s Saddle each spring and fall. I picked some today. The variety is delicious if picked young.
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another paper bag full of winecaps popped up after the last few days’ cool rain. and a handful of pink oysters… they haven’t made much for me though.
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I posted this over under pawpaws from a trip today, but probably should be here. These chickens were almost glowing. We harvested about 1/3 and left the rest for the critters and to hopefully spread spores.
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Zendog, the chickens at the front of the first picture look prime to me. The ones you picked appear to be a bit past their prime, but that is just my opinion.
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found some in the pumpkin patch today that I didn’t put there on purpose. no idea what they are. they smelled wonderful like crimini, though. I left two to grow and pulled one to look at.
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Those look like a Lepiota species. Second guess would be some kind of leucoagaricus. Lepiotas usually have a hollow stem and leucoagaricus do not.
Got out in the woods at high elevation yesterday to good success.
Horn of plenty or Blue Chantrelle, more likely the latter.
Left basket: blue chantrelles. Right basket: Milky caps and the underside of a scaly hedgehog aka hawkwing mushroom
Bonus pics: More cool-looking shrooms that I wanted photos of. We saw dozens of different species yesterday, mostly stuff that’s either not edible or unknown to me.
Bonus bonus: Old arthritic boy that got tired and needed to be carried.
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Those king boletes look awesome, I’m jealous. And looks like you found them early enough to avoid worms. That’s one species I’ve never had much luck finding in BC.
How are the scaly hedgehogs? The ones in my area seem to be pretty bitter.
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The boletes are the ones we go after! This year they have been picked over and the numbers are low. We found a lot of stumps in the regular areas but not nearly as many in past years. It is unusually dry up there in spite of records snow fall this year. The weather is forecasted to have thunderstorms almost everyday for the next week or two. I think the best harvest time will be in the next coupe of weeks, but it will also start freezing up there and bring the season to an end. I have literally harvested buckets of them in good years. They are the best all around mushroom to forage for in my opinion. The maggots do get to them but we just cut out the bad parts.
The hawk wings are a little bitter but they are really good dried or in mushroom dishes, I do like the deep flavor.
The chanterelles are always tiny here, and is a matter of how much water we get. On wet years they are noticeably bigger.
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I forgot to mention we find the boletes at around 10,000 ft elevation growing around evergreens. I think subalpine fir but I’m not sure.
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Ceps season is starting now. They should be in the Marché this saturday.
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we find them under spruce on north facing slopes.
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found some new guy today before work.
no idea what this one is. love the look though, his friends are allowed to stay by the apple tree
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Agaricus species, maybe campestris although I have a hard time telling the different Agaricus apart. Does the base of the stalk stain yellow when scratched / bruised?
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