First of the season....

[Pete]

...wild mushrooms that is.  We weren't expecting much, it being this early in the year yet, but we got a nice little collection of chanterelles, just over 1lb, enough for generous servings for two.  And very  they were too!

Should have taken piccys but we were in too much of a hurry to get them cooked and eaten.  Sorry...

Almost the first this year, I should have said, I bagged a (smallish) Giant Puff Ball last week while out on a ride.  Almost forgotten how good they taste!

[Adam]

Tasty. 

Mind you, next door's front lawn had a nice crop of mushrooms growing on it, until he cut the grass.   

[Jasper the surreal cyclist]

Picked up some puffballs whilst out cycling this week.......very nice.

[Pete]

Fungus-collecting for food has - as I'm sure many of you have noticed - got very much into the news lately - for all the wrong reasons!  I'm afraid - if it's advice you want - there's nothing like experience, and I have fifty years of it!  By coincidence, it was chanterelles - that these unfortunate victims appear to have confused with another species - that we collected in Sussex on the same weekend as their mishap - and we were totally sure of IDs and ate without problems!  But be wise and aware!  Learn to be completely familiar with a few unmistakeable edible species and confine yourself to those.

[andygates]

Ooh, time to stalk the puffball pastures and the Special Place for those Special Mushrooms.