Oysters, jelly ears and curly kail

[Toddy]

I mean oyster fungus, jelly ears (tree ears) and curly kail

HWMBLT went for a walk this morning and came home with a bag load of fungus for lunch
The jelly ears were frozen and just snipped up with scissors, the oysters I washed, dried and chopped and both were stir fried in good olive oil.
The curly kail was icy cold too, but it washed and shredded up neatly and was micro steamed with black pepper

Green and kind of peppery sweet kail, the texture and taste of the jelly ears and the tasty chunks of the oyster fungi, all in one bowl was a filling meal.

I enjoyed my lunch anyone else getting much foraging done ?

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Prawnster]

Sound delish!

I found some oyster mushrooms last week and I fried them up in some butter. Very nice but the bigger ones had gone a bit tough. It's good fun eating the fruits of your own foraging though.

I'd forgotten my little tote bag for foraging so I had to carry them in my arms to avoid damaging them. Unfortunately this meant I had to put my tracking stick down and I forgot to pick it up

 

[Toddy]

It's surprising how often a walk brings a stick back to your hand
You'd think there was no chance of finding one stick in a wood of them, but there it is, just where you needed it

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Prawnster]

It's surprising how often a walk brings a stick back to your hand
You'd think there was no chance of finding one stick in a wood of them, but there it is, just where you needed it

cheers,
Toddy

Ah but this one had a very useful spike on one end and a cute ickle compass on the other. I've never happened on one like it in the woods before

 

[lannyman8]

i got some sloes the other day for some vodka, bit late in the season though, but that makes them a little sweeter...

 

[uncleboo]

Must admit, this year, for me anyway, has been a washout for foraging. Sloes are already shrivelling, rose hips are black, hawthorn and rowan berries non existent...the list goes on.
I have noticed the Jews ears back out and there is a tree with huge oysters on it last year that I'll have to check out this weekend.

 

[Passer]

I found a large group of Oyster mushrooms last Tuesday.
On the walk home through the woods, I found my first Jelly ears.
I fried both mushrooms for later....the Jelly ears exploded from the pan

 

[Toddy]

They do if they're fresh and you haven't sliced them up finely :yikes:
Can make an awful mess

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Passer]

Thanks Toddy
Another lesson learned.....the hard way

Tony

 

[Prawnster]

Ooh yes I forgot about the sloe gin and whisky we've got on the go. My 5 year old daughter reminds me religiously to to shake the bottles every other day.
Most parents bake cakes or biscuits with their kids. We tinker with distilled alcohol haha

 

[xylaria]

i saw a load of oysters fungi on a fallen tree the other day. i tried really hard to get them, but the ground was so waterlogged it would be like standing in muddy pond, and it werent warm enough for swimming. Got some super tasting mushroom formally known as clitocybe geotropa, [it now has a english name and a new latin one]. We have been eating quite a few mussels recently, i had some really very tasty dried bladderwrack crisps. Had nettle saag [curry] yesterday. I have been too busy to forage today but I trying to eat a wild food a day at moment.

 

[xylaria]

I found a large group of Oyster mushrooms last Tuesday.
On the walk home through the woods, I found my first Jelly ears.
I fried both mushrooms for later....the Jelly ears exploded from the pan

Yeap been there done that, got one nasty blister on eyelid from it. For fresh i like them sliced in chicken broth and noodle soup.

 

[TJRoots]

over the past couple of weeks ive indulged in plenty of shellfish (mussels, winkles, limpets and one piddock), a bit of seaweed that im still trying to get the hang of cooking, plenty of rock samphire, lots of sea beat and some some sea kale roots. the beach and ciffs near me are doing a good job of providing for me. gonna try my hand at some fishing soon.
made some rose hip syrup a few weeks ago and keep finding the odd field mushroom here and there, plus several others but never when i have my mushroom book with me.