Sorta FRC: okay you guys, I have gone an done it! Here is my first blog effort

Great surprise to find this after being away for awhile.....

I actually spent this past weekend in So CA - Huntington Beach, to be exact. My oldest DD and I flew in and out in less than 48 hrs for her to attend a school reunion. Was so much fun!

Great job, Heather! Loved all your pix and especially the one of you! You are gorgeous, my dear!

Loved reading and enjoying your Blog.

Congratualations!

 
Aw, thanks everyone!!! I really appreciate your looking at it, and your kind words

And suggestions!!! It is always such an amazing thing to have your support and friendship here.

So there are some technical things I need to fix and I'm going to try to do those over at Wordpress because Blogger won't let me change the header spacing or text size or photo sizing, weird things like that. It's nice to have something fun like this to look forward to while I jobhunt, which is not so fun.

Thank you, everyone!!!

 
Those big mushrooms are King trumpet or King boletus mushrooms,

They are cultivated and quite tasty. Big though - I should have put a knife in the photo for scale as they are about 5-6" long!!

But I love porcini, they come out in the fall after rains, my Russian friend knows a few places where they grow and they are so delicious. They are the only picked mushroom I'll eat, because of their distictive shape and smell but every time she gives me some I make her show me the encyclopedia-sized tome with pictures... She's a member of the mushroom society as well. The other wild mushroom out there, besides the porcini, have poisonous mushrooms that look very similar, but the porcini does not. I'm not ending up on the news, ya know!

 
and here I was thinking I should check the woods for porcini...

actually, the trumpets are closely related oyster mushrooms and aren't in the bolete family. but there is a strong resemblance to them.

http://oregonmushrooms.foodoro.com/products/fresh-king-trumpet-mushrooms-8-oz

it's the porcini I go out for in the fall. there are only 3 shrooms I will pick but seem to fixated on the kings. porcini does have a look alike and it's the amanitas... aka, and brace yourself..... death caps but, the porcini have a "sponge" instead of gills so pretty easy to tell them apart.

in case you missed the post, this was two years ago when I picked 80 lbs. Don had to use a flash so I look like crap but I wasn't not going to get pics of one hour's haul smileys/smile.gif

http://www.recipetalk.com/home.cfm?dir_cat=80549

do you go shrooming with your friend? it's a well rewarded walk in the woods smileys/smile.gif

can't wait to see your next blog smileys/smile.gif

http://oregonmushrooms.foodoro.com/products/fresh-king-trumpet-mushrooms-8-oz

 
MUCH cleaner! Looks good.

On a quick read-through, I saw one typo:

"One of my favorite Saturday morning activities is togo"

Need a space between "to" and "go."

 
What a gorgeous batch of porcini!

About their look alikes, aren't the porcini the only one with the solid base? That was one of the tests that my friend uses, cutting them completely open..

I know there's a place up by Lake Tahoe she used to go to, and would you believe Golden Gate Park! One of these days I'll go along with her just cause I like taking hikes. Especially if there's dinner at the end.

do you still have dried mushrooms from your big haul? Mine are triple-bagged in a jar and still make the cupboard fragrant!

Thanks for looking at the blog!

 
some of them had 12" caps and weighed over a lb each. I've never had

a season like that before. yes, as much as I gave away, I still have some left. I just need to get back to cooking! oh, I store in glass, gallon jars.

I don't think they're the only ones with a solid base. death caps have a solid base too. all boletes have the sponge and not the gills. that's how I tell. although, once you've learned to shroom they're pretty easy to identify.

sliced and sauteed, fresh porcini with a really good pasta carbonara is to live for! you should go with your friend, shrooming is fun and you'll have a great time.

the new layout on the blog looks great but your beautiful picture is missing.... smileys/smile.gif

 
Unforgettable. H still talks about them. We both comment on how much work it must

have been for you and how generous it was of you to share them. By far, they were the finest we had ever enjoyed.

I just haven't seen 'the woods full of them'. Hard to picture.

 
Oooookay, I stand corrected, or rather I was misled by the mushroom man. Those are King Trumpets not

Boletus which are porcini. The King trumpets are in a different scientific family name and not boletus. But they are delicious! I will correct my post on the blog tonight.

Le oops!

 
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