Let's go foraging

[Stig]

Anyone tried King Oyster mushrooms? I foraged some from my local Waitrose, reduced for quick sale. Fried them and ate them. Tasted quite nice, but sooooo chewy. Any ideas on reducing the chewiness?

These are my absolute faves. Love them. Fry in butter, maybe garlic depending on mood, either cut the fat stems crosswise into thin discs, or lengthways into thin strips, depending if they're going on toast or into dinner.

Edit: I think the chewiness of them is what I find appealing, along with the flavour. They hold up well and keep their structure too.

 

[TopCat]

These are my absolute faves. Love them. Fry in butter, maybe garlic depending on mood, either cut the fat stems crosswise into thin discs, or lengthways into thin strips, depending if they're going on toast or into dinner.

Edit: I think the chewiness of them is what I find appealing, along with the flavour. They hold up well and keep their structure too.

Waves to Stig...

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

These are my absolute faves. Love them. Fry in butter, maybe garlic depending on mood, either cut the fat stems crosswise into thin discs, or lengthways into thin strips, depending if they're going on toast or into dinner.

Edit: I think the chewiness of them is what I find appealing, along with the flavour. They hold up well and keep their structure too.

Praps I'll try them again, but thinly sliced this time.

 

[Stig]

Waves to Stig...

 

[SpookyFrank]

Got some lovely parasols for tomorrow's breakfast. Could have got three times as many on a short walk but thought it better to leave some for everyone else.

 

[gentlegreen]

My park is a truly hopeless place for foraging - I would still starve if I had a hundred of them to forage in.
I doubt there would be much wildlife if people weren't actively feeding the birds and squirrels.

 

[Fez909]

More forest finds

Top left- I think they're sulfur knights (poisonous and the smell strongly suggests they're bad, too)
Top middle - not sure, possibly more of above
Top right - wood blewits - super tasty
Bottom left - more amethyst deceivers and what I think/hope is my first 'regular' deceiver
Bottom right - gutted about these as I really wanted them to edible, they're so pretty. They've been possibly ID'd as lilac bonnets, which used to be thought edible but no longer. Ah, well.

 

[gentlegreen]

Not many if any seem sufficiently ripe in any case - and I don't consider them available to pilfer in quantity due to location ...

 

[Johnny Vodka]

A friend (actually someone I don't know that well) just sent me a massive hamper stuffed full of foraged things and homemade food/beverages made from foraged things! Very inspiring. Will need to up my foraging/recipe-making game next year!

 

[Johnny Vodka]

More.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

More.

 

[Fez909]

Found some velvet shank (I hope!) and some wood ears, but no pics of those.

 

[Saunders]

I’m just making some jelly with berries from the freezer and it’s reminded me that I miss SheilaNaGig s input on this thread and the boards generally. Dunno if you’re still looking in, and sending you love and best wishes through the ether. X

 

[iona]

Massive crop of turkey tail just up the road from me atm (plenty above dog piss height too!). When you catch them fresh they taste really good, kind of sweet but also meaty, and they're just about soft enough to eat raw.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Plenty of wild garlic about

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So it's all leaf, and no cloves?

Later: Just read the thread, so yes.

I've just found this thread, it's brilliant. Well done and thank you all

 

[Chilli.s]

So it's all leaf, and no cloves?

Yep, and the first new shoots are the best, less stringy, so right now.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I've seen some wild garlic while out running. Hopefully there's enough to forage in the woods at the weekend.
Plan on making wild garlic and potato soup, and maybe wild garlic pesto another time.

 

[Saunders]

I've seen some wild garlic while out running. Hopefully there's enough to forage in the woods at the weekend.
Plan on making wild garlic and potato soup, and maybe wild garlic pesto another time.

I moved away a while ago and wild garlic isn’t so much of a thing here. Three cornered leek / wild onion grows in abundance though.
i reslly like the flavour of wild garlic and the ease and green of it.

 

[seeformiles]

Saw first wild garlic sprouting last week. Give it a couple of weeks and it’ll be everywhere

 

[sojourner]

Saw first wild garlic sprouting last week. Give it a couple of weeks and it’ll be everywhere

We've got loads up in my fave local park too. Will be foraging in a week or so, let the smell build up first.

 

[Stig]

just went for a walk round my local woods and no wild garlic at all, boo.

I'll have another day off next week and do a different bit of woods.

 

[gentlegreen]

There's a lot of something in my park that smells garlicky, but it may be an ornamental species - but it's an urban park with heavy dog pressure ..
To be honest, I can't get very enthusiastic about wild garlic. Yesterday as is nearly always the case when I start a new batch of stew, the two red onions and third of a bulb of garlic made their presence felt well into the night ...

 

[Stig]

There's a lot of something in my park that smells garlicky, but it may be an ornamental species - but it's an urban park with heavy dog pressure ..
To be honest, I can't get very enthusiastic about wild garlic. Yesterday as is nearly always the case when I start a new batch of stew, the two red onions and third of a bulb of garlic made their presence felt well into the night ...

'dog pressure'

That's such a very polite way to describe piss.

 

[strung out]

Already done my first batch of wild garlic pesto a couple of weeks back!

Most places seem pretty sparse for now, but found a patch that was already fully grown.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Sunny spring day here, so thought I'd at last try the honeysuckle wine, quince paste and manchego cheese from the Xmas hamper. (Obviously the cheese not homemade from foraged ingredients.) Super nice.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Foraged some wild garlic & made some wild garlic & potato soup.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Wild garlic pesto.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

This looks good. Nothing to do with UK foraging, but still...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Truffle Hunters

A handful of elderly men in Italy's Piedmont forests hunt for the rare white Alba truffle.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[seeformiles]

Sea of wild garlic this morning

 

[gentlegreen]

I was a raw garlic person when I was younger, but I struggle now.
My stew gets half a bulb when I make it and it quite often repeats on me the first day ...