Just watched a news report about people being poisoned again by mushrooms. Be careful out there, of course. But so fascinated by the fact that amanita muscaria was the obvious stock image to use. Really bloody bugs me. A friend put under one of my mushroom foraging photos of a.muscaria: 'so toxic!' and I'm like - what?
After finding thousands of them in a pine forest I've never been to, I came home to read this fascinating study. Some of you might be interested so I put the link to the study below. My father tells me stories of the old Europeans eating them when he was a kid, parboiling them first. This isn't a recommendation by any means - but I think the poor amanita muscaria is much aligned. You can't eat morels raw without being sick either.
And in other mushroom news, trying roasting saffies with olive oil, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper to have with gnocchi tonight.
Hope you are all carefully identifying your mushrooms and finding basketloads of them, or at least taking admiring photographs! PS I didn't pick, nor eat, any a.muscaria for the making of this post.
More news to come.
Oh and here's the study.
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He he, well, learning about them as I want to try them as pain relief and anxiety relief!
Oh yes. . .good ones. I also found ashwaganda great for anxiety, but takes a while, to tak it daily. . .
Oh yes I take it every day when I remember and I also have it growing in the garden! Though I havent dug it up yet... Letting those roots grow! And Tulsi as well is lovely.
Now you see, this is why i want a garden!!!!
You'll find them in pine forests! Definitely from your homelands - Eastern Europe is full of them.
Good to know!!!
Look how cute, found them today on my way 😍
Ah cute!!!!! And you thought of me too. I'm not crazy enough to have 🍄 all over my house... Yet!!
Yet. . .