Mushrooms from the garden

[CalG]

We have had quite a spell of rain, and what do you suppose, but mushrooms have sprung up in the wood chip mulch that is placed as walkways between the garden beds.
Looked 'em up, and all indications were that the type is "Wine Cap" with the name due to the red wine colored "caps" when they first emerge.

I'm not a mushroom forager, never figured it was worth the effort, so the first of these that popped up I left to grow. Skeptic me.

But as more caps emerged, I read more from both books and on line. Seemed like they were not gonna kill me right away.
So I sauteed some the other night, with onion and garlic. Very earthy! The wife said "No More for me thank you". But I liked them.
Last night I had some in asparagus soup. Great addition!
Tonight we had burgers, and the red caps with onions sauteed in butter was a flavorful topping addition.
So, If you happen across them, do your home work, but enjoy!
A bit "stronger" than the button mushrooms you might find at the grocery. A step up from portobello/portabella, even when first emerged.

I hear they are healthy too.... go figure!

 

[BackRoad]

...noli facere...

I delivered morning newspapers as a boy and would read the front page headlines and stories as I folded and tucked the newspapers for delivery.

Headline: Family of 6 Dies From Foraged Poison Mushrooms

55 years later, the story is still fresh in my head when someone talks of eating wild mushrooms...

Good Luck!

 

[CalG]

...noli facere...

I delivered morning newspapers as a boy and would read the front page headlines and stories as I folded and tucked the newspapers for delivery.

Headline: Family of 6 Dies From Foraged Poison Mushrooms

55 years later, the story is still fresh in my head when someone talks of eating wild mushrooms...

Good Luck!

As My wife said just tonight, "these are not wild mushrooms, they came from our gardens"! ;-)

And as I responded....

"The coward dies a thousand deaths
The brave do die but once!"

Trust, but verify!

Ahgh! help, gasp....... I..

Can't..... brea....

every.. thing... is ...going..dark//

Tell... the //kids.. I ..love...them....

;-)

 

[ultrarunner]

Mushroom foraging is very big in parts of Europe…

Every year there is a local story of non English speaker emigrant dying from Death Cap mushrooms here in the SF Bay Area.

Those that survive often need organ transplants.

I’ve also seen non English speakers gather ornamental poison oak for fall color…

 

[CalG]

Mushroom foraging is very big in parts of Europe…

Every year their is a local story of non English speaker emigrants dying from Death Cap mushrooms.

Those that survive often need organ transplants.

I’ve also seen non English speakers gather ornamental poison oak for fall color…

Ahh The Wine cap.. or Death cap!

Savor the difference!
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;-)

Is it the english language which determines the action?

 

[MossRoad]

Glad you enjoyed them.

I have a friend that gathered morels for decades. Then he poisoned himself, his wife, and 4 friends with false morels.

They enjoyed their dinner, then all noticed their lips getting numb and nausea. So off to the hospital they went. All recovered quickly.

I have another friend that had a yellow lab. The dog ate mushrooms in the yard and died a horrible, wrenching death within hours.

On that note, anything can kill you.

https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/22299185.knebworth-mans-death-blamed-corned-beef-sandwich/

 

[CalG]

Though I plan to have my body cremated, I have directed my epitaph to read..

"Died suddenly, nothing serious!"

 

[tacticalturnip]

I genuinely wish I liked mushrooms. I can cook them well enough to make my wife happy, but I can't stand them myself.

 

[goeduck]

The only mushrooms I ever eat come from the grocery store. I see them all over in our wet climate but I certainly am not going to eat any.

 

[CalG]

The only mushrooms I ever eat come from the grocery store. I see them all over in our wet climate but I certainly am not going to eat any.

It's the "all over" that is the danger!

NB

I have "tried" some other "edible" wild mushrooms.
Most of them taste a lot like DIRT.

As mentioned in the OP. Why bother?