Today, my colleague and I walked across the street to get a FourBucks. On the way, we spied some shaggy mane mushrooms – Coprinus comatus – on the grass. This left me no choice but to plan a mushroom soup for dinner. For mushrooms I… Read More
Saturday is soup day around here these days. I wasn’t sure what variety of soup I was going to make today until we visited friends this morning who gave us some dried mushrooms. More specifically, these are Boletus Mirabilis, known as the Admirable Bolete. I’ve… Read More
Most of the regular readers of this blog know that over the past few years I’ve become a mushroom hunter. When mushrooms are fruiting well, I’ll often collect quite a number of them and then dry them in a dehydrator to eat later. From time… Read More
I laid today’s bounty out on a table on the deck. There are some different species of boletes, two types of chanterelles, hedgehogs, and lobsters. I gave away quite a few, I have a lot in the dehydrator, and I made some soup tonight. The… Read More
I’m devoting much of this afternoon to pulling dandelions from the front lawn. I have many dandelions. So many in fact that if you would like some, I will share. I have a weapon of mass destruction called “grampa’s weeder” that allows me to squeeze… Read More
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