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Most likely brown birch bolete, look up Leccinium species. All Leccinium species have that mottled stem

I've had to travel for them @Suffolkrafter , I've failed to find any close by in a good 2 years of serious searching. It's been a fantastic year for penny buns already this year, I doubt there will be too many more to show to be honest, but the hedgehog mushrooms are yet to peak and I'm...

Chanterelles and hedgehog fungus are on point at the moment! They make great pickles- flavoured with soy, homegrown rosemary and bay, yorkshire honey, local dried wild garlic and local Jack by the hedge seeds in white wine vinegar.

Bed and Brealfast :)

A tweak on the traditional recipe, with a bit of cauliflower fungus, hedgehog fungus and porcini in with the bacon, loads of home made porcini dust in the egg mix with a good sprinkling of dried wild garlic and ground jack by the hedge seeds for a bit of mustard bite. Absolutely insane umami...

They are some kind of boletus. The top looks like a red cracking bolete, the 2nd (purely based on the fat stem) looks like a penny bun, but they have succumbed to mould, hence the white covering

I think I like the sound of your pine honey better to be honest Mary! A mate of mine had a go at Dandelion honey and he rates that highly. When you say wash and dry, I'm assuming you just mean rinse and take off the excess water rather than dehydrate? I've got some kinda cough at the moment...

Well done man :) are you planning on preserving some in syrup??? My favourite!

They are older specimens in your pic. Have a Google search- you'll see plenty of pics as they are a very common mushroom. I promise you they are sulphur tufts :)

Sulphur tuft :)

Yep mullet :)

Beech is hard to carve but ultimately will make very hard wearing cutlery. Spoons, spatulas and the like. It will burn really well but it needs a long seasoning time.

Fried rye sourdough, with a topping of fried spring onions, polish garlic sausage, penny bun, bay bolete and charcoal burner fungi. I was far too hungry to take a pic of the constructed meal!

Re-reading. If I can get hold of the wood, this winter will be the one for it...

Recently, the mushrooms have been doing very well. Particularly penny buns, bay boletes and hen of the woods, so I have been drying any excess mushrooms which will either get rehydrated or turns into powder for stock. A mate has been putting his dehydrator to good use, with fruit leathers of...

Nice- I did come across that whilst searching for dwarf cornel, interesting plant, I've never seen one in the UK. Unfortunately I'm back from Norway now :( it's a bit depressing to be honest. Awesome place.

Just to be clear it is Cornus suecica I am referring to- I found multiple sources that said it is edible, but not harvested very much. The best ones I found were on plants where the leaves had gone a lovely red colour-

Bletting I think its called? Somehow turns the acids into sugars via freezing. I was in Norway last week, they have a berry called dwarf cornel aka bunchberry (I think you might have them?) And most sources stated they were bitter in taste- these were juicy and sweet, much like a pear, not a...

Excellent :) I've used a similar process with nettle seeds, a friend has a burr coffee grinder that he uses for stuff like this- invaluable!