I always liked Shirley Conran's advice:
"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom".
Same as "Keep it simple", but more graphic.
This year was a very good one for mushrooms. Yet I didn't collect them in 2022 - my family was too anxious, though they could be assured that I will be cautious: I only collect chanterelles (found lots of them in Austria), bay bolete, and, if I am very lucky: porcini.
On my cellphone I installed an App that helps to decide whether a mushroom is "good" or not - but I only do use it to get the upper hand in that mycelium of dizzy mushroom names - NOT to collect any for the pan. I join in with Pu Bear: "You never can tell with bees mushrooms."
Next year I plan to take a course at an expert of mushrooms - here in Bavaria - maybe then they will be reassured?
Query: Is it true that a "toadstool" is always a poisonous mushroom?
Toadstool is just a popular name for practically any fungus you can't identify! It's useful to deter children from eating them.
ReplyDeleteThank you! In a dictionary they were a bit unspecific - and honestly: I would never dare to feed children mushrooms I (or another person) picked up in the woods. The risk of a mistake would be too high.
DeleteI'm stealing that quote "Keep it simple", but more graphic, Britta. Why hadn't I heard that brilliant one before?
ReplyDeleteThe mushrooms that are good are apparently quite healthy. But the ones that are bad -- Oowee!
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I hope everyone is doing well, I have some news to share today.... In the next week I am moving to NOLA and hoping this new journey will put me back into the attitude that change is good. So much to do and not enough time to do it. I am so thankful for all the wonderful people in my life (including Pedro Jerome) a loan lender that support me at all times I am excited and also worried my life has been such a downer for so long that getting out of it has been hard, but I do really feel that this change is going to be the best thing I need right now, and I have hopes that all good things do come to those that wait.
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So please keep me in your thoughts, and thanks to this blog I can at least keep in contact with all of you.