I've just had the most lovely birthday. Wandered around the woods in the morning and finished up on a beach in the afternoon. Somewhere in between we managed to find two enormous Ceps which I'll dry for later use.
I prepped and dried two thirds of the haul (there were only two of them, but one was the size of a small cottage loaf and the other almost half as big, so both impressive beasties that sliced up gave me enough to comfortably fill my dehydrator). The remainder was cooked up with a little garlic as per a spanish recipe somone over on self-sufficientish supplied.
Jolly tasty it was too.
Ceps do look exactly like an old fashioned loaf with their brownish tops and well deserve their British name 'Penny Bun'. They really are quite stunning fungi to come across. My next target this year is chanterelles as I've not found them locally yet, but I live in hope.
I once cropped the blue legs in our wood, I wouldnt say they were delicious but ok for free, they just kept coming, must have been an old patch. The gamekeeper had been taking them , til I spotted where he had sliced them off...ha ha foiled his plan !
Seahorse, by bluelegs you mean Blewits, yes? I rather like them, although they get a bit soft in cooking the flavour's nice and the colour is quite stunnning to look at when very fresh (a bit like Deceivers, the brightness of the colours always reminds me of jelly babies & makes you appreciate just how diverse nature can be).
I'm after finding Chanterelles next, another amazingly brightly coloured fungi. Oh how I love to forage!
we had some fungi sprouting in the garden not so long back but it turned out that they were rubbish ones that you can't eat (according to the book). I had some chanterelles in a restaurant in San Marlo (I think that’s how it’s spelt), it was in a crêpe along with other mushrooms and a white wine sauce. Very tasty indeed.
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