disappointing breakfast

[Bardster]

Indeed disapointing.... Had loads of mushrooms grow up in the lawn in the last few days, hmmm will have those for breakfast says I! Went out and picked a dozen this morning all excited like, thinking yes! free food again! (picked 6 1/2 lb of blackberries and 12lb of rowans yesterday) got then back in the kitchen and thought hmmm do a fianl check on ID first... Convinced they were horse mushrooms or possibly Macros. Turns out they are most probably yellow stainers so not worth the risk oh well better luck next time

 

[Womble_Lancs]

We had fried puffball yesterday and it was jolly nice. It reminded me a bit of tofu - that sort of 'omelette' texture.

 

[JonnyP]

Unlucky Paul...
We have been fortunate to have a load of horse mushrooms growing around here. The slugs seem to like them too though..

 

[Mendip Man]

I'm with you on this one - there's nothing like finding some lovely shrooms only to discover they are not edible. Found some weeping boletes and birch boletes up here on the Mendips the other day, but when I fried them up but they had too many maggots in them. Very dissapointed!

 

[chelks]

Lots of Parasol fungi out here at the moment. Ive been chompin on them all week - very easy to spot, once you have seen one, it would be hard to pick something nasty.

They are in the top 10 UK edible mushroom list in one book - well worth learning.

 

[fishfish]

I'm with you on this one - there's nothing like finding some lovely shrooms only to discover they are not edible. Found some weeping boletes and birch boletes up here on the Mendips the other day, but when I fried them up but they had too many maggots in them. Very dissapointed!

too many maggotts! whats an acceptable amount?? lol

 

[xylaria]

With boletes if you slice them very thin and dry them, the maggots crawl out and die. Also before you pick them push down on centre of the cap, really crawlly ones are soft where as fresh is firmer. This also prevents the maggot bombs where the fungi disintergrates into a maggoty mess either in hands, basket or kitchen table.