Chicken of the Woods is a favorite mushroom to forage. Its easy to identify and cooks up with a texture surprisingly similar to chicken. That also makes it a favorite of vegetarians.

One pastry that has always impressed me is the croissant. A few times, I’ve read baking books and planned to try making it, but I never quite found the courage because it looks challenging and very time

Bay Boletes

Golden Treasure in the Forest

Oh man it's been a great season for saffron milk cap mushrooms, common in pine forests round here. ON the way back from a trip to country Victoria we stopped past a reservoir and picked a metric ton of

I took some mushroom photos on our recent hike in central Vermont. The first is just a nice photo not sure what type of mushroom. I'm not great at mushroom identification. I just know a few I like to forage.

Mushroom Monday

Now for a slimy #fungifriday This bright yellow stuff is called dog vomit slime mold. I guess it sort of looks like dog vomit? The Latin name is Fuligo septica. I wish I had my macro camera lens with me

It's that time of the year again for redcurrants, and there are so many of them around. These are one of the berries I look forward to eating because they have never been sold in shops. I do wonder why,

Hola, setero! Today I share some fresh mushroom impressions from exploring of my summer house backyard. A little boleto Suillus bovinus. In Russian it has a funny name - 'Козлёнок' (a newborn baby-goat).

When you collect your own food, sometimes it’s very upset and doesn’t want to be eaten. Here you can see some feisty food: wild river crabs that we went hunting for recently and we did pretty well. We

Summer Finds

Meadow Mushrooms

The Solanum family has many varieties, some edible like Solanum nigrum and others non-edible and even toxic, like this one we have within reach here. This is a species that grows wild in many arid places

Fungi Finds

Weekend Finds

Walking through the forest allows you to find treasures like this, a beautiful coral fungus known as such for its resemblance to marine corals with its hundreds of branches. This species grows on decomposing

Fairy Ring and Trypophobia

What’s up, Hive? It’s been too long. My feed is telling me it’s been five months since my last post. In some ways, it’s felt longer. I’ve mentioned in many past blogs that when I have the space in my life

Findin mushrooms with my daughter.