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Preparing Lobster Mushrooms for the table
When you come across lobster mushrooms in the forest, they don’t always look appetizing. Often they’re partially covered with leaves and dirt. Part of the mushroom might look nice and firm, but another part could be deep red and mushy. Sometimes they are partially bug-eaten… Read More
Hypomyces lactifluorum – the lobster
There hasn’t been much mushroom hunting going on with all the dry weather we’ve enjoyed, but recent storms gave me a bit of hope, so the dogs and I headed for the enchanted mushroom forest to see what we could see. Boletes: none Chanterelles: none… Read More
Oh no, the rain didn’t fall….
The lack of rain over the past three weeks has been hard to swallow for those of us who enjoy foraging for wild mushrooms. Last year at this time, the summer mushroom season was in full swing and I was picking enough to enjoy fresh,… Read More
In the Woods
I took Friday off work and headed up to the secret enchanted mushroom forests to do some foraging. I didn’t have high expectations because the rain we received mid-week wasn’t nearly enough to encourage a good flush of tasty edibles. However, wandering around a forest… Read More
Scouting Mission
In the spring, the first tasty edible mushrooms to appear in Southern Ontario are morels in May. Those are followed at roughly the beginning of June with oyster mushrooms, and then we don’t see anything much happening on the edible mushroom front for some time.… Read More
Morning Walk in the Forest
I took the dogs out for an early morning walk in a forest not far from the city. I was hoping to see the first chanterelles of the season or possibly even some early summer boletes, but I didn’t come across any interesting fungi. We… Read More
Oyster Mushrooms
I packed up the dogs this morning and went hunting the oyster mushroom. I believe the mushroom I pick on dead or dying poplar trees this time of year to be Pleurotus populinus, although today I met up with a fellow who told me no… Read More
The Biggest Mushroom Species
Somebody came across this blog after searching “the biggest mushroom species Ontario”. I wonder if that person was looking for the mushrooms the grew the largest or the ones there are most examples of in the province. If the question was meant to be what… Read More
Six Trout Flies
It’s been a while since I did any serious fly tying. That has everything to do with the fact that over the past couple years, I haven’t done nearly as much fly fishing as I used to – and that has a lot to do… Read More
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