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Default Eating wild mushrooms


"Magdalena Bassett" > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Here in the NorthWest (US) we are in the middle of the mushroom season. It's
> one of the best since I moved here - chanterelles, boletas, birch boletas,
> lactarius, russulas, and many more edible mushrooms. The chanterelles are the
> most popular with the pickers, and most pick 2-3 gallons on an outing of about
> 3 hours. What fun! Yesterday, my husband and I found 31 shaggy parasols, in my
> opinion, tastier than any other mushrooms. We had a feast for supper last
> night, and the rest will be dehydrated to reconstitute later in the winter. I
> already have several containers with sauted chanterelles in the freezer, and
> hoping to round off my mushrooming season with a good find of matsutaki this
> weekend.
>
> Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking?
>

Yes, every year.

Even some of the poisonous ones.Toadstools, cut up and simmered in milk
kill flies.

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner