Saturday saw us up at the completely unreasonable time of 7.30 (ahhh, work seems a distant memory sometimes!) to meet up in Vernon for a mushroom safari with local expert Roseanne. We met her at the salmon run a few weeks ago and started talking mushrooms....she warned that some of the edible UK species are not the same here, plus different names, new edibles etc so we thought it best to get a refresher/heads up on the natives....Drove about 1hour from Vernon on a combination of highway, roads and dirt tracks to Mabel Lake. Which is a beautiful place, where in the summer fish apparently throw themselves on to your line, in the autumn its mushroom paradise!
Crystal Falls is just one of the waterfalls in the area and this is it being quiet...in May you can't see the rocks the waterflow is so great...
Orange Jelly fungus or 'witches snot' - edible but pretty tasteless. Winter chanterelles - yummy, trying in risotto tomorrow
Scaly chanterelle and grey oyster - both inedible...but pretty
2 comments:
So glad you enjoyed the Mushroom Safari. Did you cook up those mushrooms? How were they?
Roseanne
www.OutdoorDiscoveries.com
Hi Roseanne,
Winter chanterelles went into a risotto and were delicious!
Also we bought David Arora's book this week so we are ready for spring...plus helped us id some Shaggy Manes in our front garden..until the dog sat on them...still perhaps some more might pop up in the next few days...
Thanks for a wonderful time
Cara and Shaun
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