Saturday morning I drove up to Go Home Lake, where I was invited to lead a mushroom hunt – the second annual. I’m no pro mycologist, but I can reliably identify a good number of tasty edibles as well as some of the nasty poisonous… Read More
I drove a couple hours north of the city early this morning in search of some brook trout in a particularly gorgeous and challenging trout stream I know. As a bonus I found a few edible mushrooms. These are “milk caps” or Lactarius mushrooms. When… Read More
Here you can see the underside of a couple of the Hydnum repandum I found this morning. As you can see, these hedgehog mushrooms have teeth. Some people remove the teeth before cooking, but I don’t see any need to do that.
You don’t see the distinctive teeth on hedgehog mushrooms until you pick them. Tuffy P and I picked a few this morning. Here’s how they appear in the forest. There are two types of hedgehog mushrooms, Hydnum repandum and Hydnum umbilicatum. These are Hydnum repandum.… Read More
I was just looking at the stats for this blog and I could not help but notice that many of the visitors here came looking for information about foraging for wild mushrooms or cooking wild mushrooms. There have been searches for edible mushrooms, poisonous mushrooms,… Read More
Today was an exploration day. The dogs and I found ourselves in some interesting forests today, and as a bonus we found enough mushrooms for a couple dinners. Mostly I found chanterelles. There were a few boletes around but they were mostly not in the… Read More
First go to a forest and forage around until you gather a basket of primo chanterelles. If you find a few hedgehog and lobster mushrooms and an bolete or two, no problem. It’s all good. Clean your mushrooms then saute them in a little vegetable… Read More
Each year as the weather warms and people start thinking about foraging for wild mushrooms, 27th Street gets quite a few visits from people searching for this or that variety of mushroom. Over the past couple weeks for instance, there was quite a bit of… Read More
Several people have somehow or another landed on this piece of cyber-real estate, the land of milk and honey, if you will….after searching: where to find morels in Southern Ontario. My response: what’s a morel?
Another cold night. More snow coming. On the other hand, it’s only about 3 months until morel season in Southern Ontario, followed by oyster mushrooms and off we go.
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