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What's good this week (first week in November, '04)

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cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 04 4:25 pm Post subject: What's good this week (first week in November, '04)

Things I'm finding growing wild that are good and tasty this week:

Plants
Nettle tops (new growth, the weather has been really mild)
Ground Elder (also new, soft green growth)
Chickweed
Common Mallow (again, new growth)

Fungi
Wood blewits
Field Blewits
Agrocybe cylindracea
Shaggy Caps
Field Mushrooms
Horse Mushrooms

I'm told that there are also plenty of parasols around, although I haven't been to a patch where I might have seen any,

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45671
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 04 4:33 pm Post subject:
I wish I could get my butt in gear to take some pics of the mushrooms I've got sprouting up all over the garden, there's a few different ones

anneka

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 158

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 04 7:18 pm Post subject:
The only mushrooms I can find are parasols - and they were in Sheffield Park Gardens. Anneka

Aariq
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 04 8:30 pm Post subject:
Yeah! I had some chickweed in a salad the other day that I found at a friends house.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 04 9:04 am Post subject:
Great stuff is chickweed. It's stupid enough to keep trying to invade my veg patch, so it keeps getting eaten.

anneka

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 158

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 04 10:08 pm Post subject:

Found some Field Blewits whilst putting the goats out, have eaten them this evening in chicken and blewit pie, very good indeed. I have never tried them before, I had actually just put the pie in the oven when I logged on and read your (Cab) post about 'Top Ten' and any fears I had (not many - but its always nice to be sure) evaporated, so thank you for that.

I made nettle soup for lunch, I have eaten nettles before but not made soup, and I found it unusual not unplesant but a bit metalic and bitter - is this right?

Anneka

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 04 8:42 am Post subject:

Anneka, glad you liked the blewits. They're a great mushroom.

Nettle soup is something that some people never really get into. But you might find that the metallic taste will fade a bit of you fook it a bit more, and if you make the soup in Spring rather than Autumn (they seem to be a bit more acidic at this time of year, even when you only pick the soft green shoots).

My own nettle soup is made by taking allthe hard stems off (only using leavesand soft tips) and cooking the nettles down to a bit of a mush (closed pan, just in the water the nettles were washed in, maybe four or fiveminutes) before blending. Then make a butter and flour paste, pour on milk slowly to get it smooth, and add the nettles. Cook for five minutes with a little salt and pepper and a healthy grating of nutmeg, and that's your soup. Served with a little fresh or fried bread, I find that this recipe gets rid of any metallic twang (although some people seem way more sensitive than me, and can still taste that).

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