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bubble

Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 11 9:03 am Post subject: todays little haul
bay boletes and some cauliflower fungus for a rissotto with truffle oil

hedgehogpie

Joined: 02 May 2006
Posts: 684
Location: Kent

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 11 1:23 pm Post subject:
It's too dry for anything decent here at the moment. Sulks

wildfoodie

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 2169

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 11 8:31 pm Post subject:
just back from a Suffolk foray... was not expecting to find anything at all but we struck gold with a bit of beefsteak fungus and some shaggy parasols If you ask me, that's a miracle given how dry it's been!

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35049
Location: Devon

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 11 8:39 pm Post subject:
I got some very nice chestnuts today. Much bigger than usual.

wildfoodie

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 2169

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 11 8:40 pm Post subject:
tis a good year for nuts I think. we found really good fat beech mast as well and I haven't seen so many acorns for several years.

hedgehogpie

Joined: 02 May 2006
Posts: 684
Location: Kent

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 11 8:53 pm Post subject:
Yep, I'm with you there Wildfoodie, the beech mast this year is amazingly good.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 11 9:06 pm Post subject:
What do you do with it though?

bubble

Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 11 6:46 am Post subject:
the thing with the drought is you need to look in sheltered areas,if its hilly often you'll find one side has stuff while the other is dry!!!here we go ooops..let you into another one of my little secrets..

hedgehogpie

Joined: 02 May 2006
Posts: 684
Location: Kent

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 11 10:51 am Post subject:
Jots in notebook

bubble

Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 11 1:04 pm Post subject:
star pupil ,hedgehogpie ,and of course not forgetting the direction of the dominating prevailing drying winds

hedgehogpie

Joined: 02 May 2006
Posts: 684
Location: Kent

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 11 2:23 pm Post subject:

Can I have a gold star now please?

Jamanda, beech mast is quite small and fiddly and a bit of a pain to get a decent nibble from (even when they're really plump good ones). I always joke that the fastest way to get a decent meal from them is to tether a pig under the tree and eat the pig. If you have the time and patience though, you can use them any way you would other nuts, or roast them for a kind of coffee substitute. They do also make excellent oil that apparently doesn't go rancid easily.

bubble

Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 11 8:16 pm Post subject:

hedgehogpie wrote:

Can I have a gold star now please?

you can have a gold star +

hedgehogpie

Joined: 02 May 2006
Posts: 684
Location: Kent

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 11 9:35 pm Post subject:

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