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Just fed my brother and his wife a late dinner (midnight now here) and we consumed a goodly few of that pile of fresh picked horses from today. I didn't tell them they were freshly picked. They took one mouthful and asked where did I get the mushrooms....their's never taste like this etc etc.

So it just proves that the difference in flavour isn't myth. They are in a different league altogether.
 
Bob I guess you are right re the yellow stainer mushroom, except we were the mum & dad, I reckon one of our young daughters who were racing to gather in the mushrooms did not obey the picking instructions. Although I recall we always sorted them after picking perhaps a piece of one of that type stayed in the crop might even have been the culprit. (I thought at the time, I knew what it was like to die!!!!!!)
 
Bob.

Definitely not a myth, no comparison between fresh/wild, and cultivated. Sadly I have not had a fresh/wild mushroom, since childhood, and that is along time past.

Just have to imagine the taste. :cry:

Take care.

Chris R.
 
That sounds quite sad Chris :cry:

Is there any reason why you couldn't join a local foraging expedition with the local expert? I think that's the best way to get involved and instantly remove the risks. Is your mobility OK?

I've always had a fascination for wild food and when the River Cottage series got going it was kind of tailor made for me and it motivated me to get out and pick. I bought several books and got stuck in. Now some 15 years later I would recommend two books in particular for anyone starting out:

1/ "Mushrooms" by none other than John Wright who is the bloke that Hugh always goes mushrooming with on River Cottage. He has produced a simple starters guide with all the do's and donts -very accessible

2/ "Mushrooms" same name but this time by Roger Phillips. This is moving in the direction of a biology text book in terms of identification so a more weighty tome than the River Cottage one above.

If you can't get out for any reason, next time I land a big batch I'll send you some through the post :)
 
Todays little meander across our local village cricket green revealed these little suckers. Agaricus Bernardii. Somewhat uncommon and often associated with coastal dunes and the like. They are edible but not choice by any means.
 

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devonwoody":y2qy26xr said:
I fished the River Avon at Breamore a few times in the 1960's. Caught mainly grayling. It wasn't cheap, but before rod licenses arrived.

Before rod licenses? I seem to remember having to have one when I was a member of a local fishing club in the early sixties, but I may be wrong.
 
Just took over a loaf of bread to a neighbour and she has five mushrooms on her lawn, but I still refused to pick them. (I remember the day I felt I nearly died)

Never purchased a rod license in my life so in 1965 you did not need them?

I switched to sea fishing, but I think they are coming.
 
phil.p":a2ulrqej said:
Re rod licences for sea fishing.
Random Orbital Bob":a2ulrqej said:
Ha...I'd like to see them police boat fishermen :)
That is just the kind of idiotic law they would introduce in this country - something completely unpoliceable. :lol:

I think they would be cunning, demand you have a license to own a rod, like guns.
 
Random Orbital Bob":12fbnbe1 said:
Parlour pool was the next stretch down from Aquarium, separated by a footbridge. It was strictly salmon fishing only and in 1976 it cost £45 per day!! The little bailiff's hut was right in front of the footbridge and had a 60lb stuffed glass cased salmon on the wall. As a wide eyed youngster fisherman...that place was heaven.

It still is Bob, my rented workshop is a couple of minutes walk from the royalty fisheries, my dogs love to run in the watermeadows on the other side of the river.
chris
 
Brilliant Soulboy. Nice to hear some things haven't changed with the digital revolution. Also...wow...what a place to have a workshop! Wood working and fishing...my two passions...I'd be like a kid in a sweet shop :)
 

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