Foraging with Friends.

Milk Caps

Reviving the foods our elders taught us amidst the nostalgic rainy days.

Purple Mushrooms!

Giant Poisonous Mushrooms

Life can be pretty tough... Clare and I had to endure apple-bramble crumble with custard for breakfast, today. 😒 As if we don't have enough sweet stuff to eat, already. It was hard work getting through

Odds and Ends

Mushrooms found on the way to a haircut.

Doing stuff in my garden aka dacha, caring tomatoes. Do you also enjoy these photographs? All content of this posting is original and my own, copyright (C) 2026 Valerian V Kadyshev. This report was published

Mushroom Monday Sightings

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).