Fungi 2011

[fredg]

Mind if I call in for breakfast Olga?
That looks delicious 

It must be a good year for fungi, a few have popped up in the garden.
I have absolutely no idea what they are.

[Hoy]

Does anyone know what type of mushroom these are?  These are all the same, just different stages of growth.  They get large, to 6" (15 cm) across when fully expanded.  They seem to have come in from shredded pink bark mulch, they appear every year.

Mark, have you considered Macrolepiota?

[Olga Bondareva]

Olga, this looks very tasty!  I like this even better then choclate.

Lina yes I like this more than chocolate.  Especially to gather. 

How wonderful to find and be able to pick and eat this bountiful harvest. I'm sure you enjoyed them all Olga.

Yes Lesley all my family enjoyed!  Mostly they are frozen for winter.

fredg 
The weather is damp now. Mushrooms like it. I have no idea which is yours. 

[Olga Bondareva]

A couple of days  ago I gather a 20 litre basket of Lactarius deliciosus.

[Maggi Young]

Olga, why do you freeze rather than dry the fungi ?  I would think freezing made them too soft when used later?

[Olga Bondareva]

Maggi, I don't know.  May be because it's the easiest I can do.

[Olga Bondareva]

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, I don't know.  May be because it's the easiest I can do.

  That seems a reasonable answer! 

[Hans J]

Maggi ,

I have just ask my wife :

Not all fungi are possibly to dry ( those on the pic from Olga not ) - also Cantarellus is not possibly.

To give it in freeze is much easier and make not such a lot work !

P.E: Boletus are fine for drying ....but you must make small slices ...othereise they need to long time for drying!

...and it is always a risk with drying : if one fly lay a egg inside and the dried fungi are later in glass so the caterpillar can kill all fungi inside !!!

A other way to conservate fungi is to fry them and later lay it in a glass with olive oil ( the italian people use this method )

Have fun
Hans

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Hans, my regards and thanks to Barbara! 

[Panu]

I preserve mushrooms by pickling, drying, frying and then freezing. Just putting mushrooms in oil has it´s own risks too. Oh, and Cantharellus tubaeformis are just fine to dry. Haven´t tried with (golden) chanterelle, but you can grind them after drying. Otherwise they are a bit chewy, I´ve heard.

[Olga Bondareva]

Not all fungi are possibly to dry ( those on the pic from Olga not ) - also Cantarellus is not possibly.
To give it in freeze is much easier and make not such a lot work !
P.E: Boletus are fine for drying ....but you must make small slices ...othereise they need to long time for drying!
...and it is always a risk with drying : if one fly lay a egg inside and the dried fungi are later in glass so the caterpillar can kill all fungi inside !!!
A other way to conservate fungi is to fry them and later lay it in a glass with olive oil ( the italian people use this method )

Yes! I’m shaking your wife’s hand.
Russian method of fungi conservation is to ferment, leaven them. It’s not so easy as to freeze but it is convenient for all fungi species.

[Olga Bondareva]

Slug encroaching on gnom's meals. 
(Crucibulum laeve)

[Maggi Young]

Olga, the superb quality of your photographs never ceases to delight me, thank you!

Is it just me or is there a hint of the look of a  whale about that slug? It could be a horror film!
No, not a whale, a giant squid!

[Hoy]

Maggi ,

I have just ask my wife :

Not all fungi are possibly to dry ( those on the pic from Olga not ) - also Cantarellus is not possibly.

To give it in freeze is much easier and make not such a lot work !

P.E: Boletus are fine for drying ....but you must make small slices ...othereise they need to long time for drying!

...and it is always a risk with drying : if one fly lay a egg inside and the dried fungi are later in glass so the caterpillar can kill all fungi inside !!!

A other way to conservate fungi is to fry them and later lay it in a glass with olive oil ( the italian people use this method )

Have fun
Hans

I know quite a few mushroom gatherers and they dry Cantharellus cibarius and claim they are delicious afterwards.



Picture taken from here: http://www.flittig.no/template_permalink.asp?id=148

Often they use special "mushroom drying boilers":



From here: http://tantejul.blogg.no/1223497843_trke_sopp_trkesopp_tr.html