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[astridv]

Boletus erythropus, aka tomorrow’s dinner. A bunch of them are growing right on the other side of my street in an abandoned front yard. I just had two of them for dinner tonight… so tasty. I can’t believe my luck that no one in the neighbourhood knows how delicious these are.

Did I mention my book is done? It is done! Sweet freedom. Nothing pressing to do for weeks. Except a long-ass to-do list that includes submitting my taxes. But that can wait for a few days. I already went climbing today, and now I'm about to celebrate the ritual post-work Cleaning of the Desk. Then there's gonna be fanart.

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[likeadeuce]

What is that? A mushroom?

[astridv]

Yep, a mushroom, this one. You can't really tell in my pic 'cause the stem is hidden by the grass. It's a very pretty mushroom. Also hard to mistaken for a poisonous one which is always a plus. ;)

[ratcreature]

It's probably due to the general advice you hear all the time to not eat any mushrooms you gathered without using one of these expert checking services, even if you think they are safe. That gets repeated so often that I never collect any wild mushrooms.

Last year my brother's garden had a quantity of some mushroom his wife assured me was edible and tasty, and that she was sure it was a safe kind that she collected all the time, and I still felt apprehensive about the dinner I was invited to... Though I did eat some, after I was told that they had some the previous day too, and after all my nieces seemed to have no trouble, and I figured if even a then two and four year olds had no gastric upset, I'd probably be safe.

[astridv]

Haha. A friend told a similar story. Yeah, it's a bit of a science all right. When I was a kid my family used to go "inne Pilze" every summer and fall holidays, any while I haven't picked mushrooms a lot since then I'm still feeling confident enough to pick most of them. With boletus there are almost no poisonous mushrooms to mistake them for, and as to gilled mushrooms I stick with champignon and Maipilze (which are pretty much the only ones that grow in May, and they have a distinctive smell). Other than that, gilled ones are tricky and something for advanced collectors.