The most reliable edible fungi here is winter chantarelle (traktkantarell). Only once in my over 30 years of picking this has it failed. The second part of October […]
Fungi / Salad
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The tastiest time of year?
One of, my favourite culinary times of year…the last two evenings I’ve eaten fresh broad bean falafels accompanied by fresh orange milkcaps / granmatriske (Lactarius deterrimus) and a […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Another afternoon in the forest!
More work :( There were again large numbers of perfect Lactarius deterrimus (granmatriske / false saffron milkcap or orange milkcap), which is a mycorrhizal fungus that associates with Norway […]
Cycling / Foraging / Fungi
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Fungal bonanza by bike and job creation
I can’t remember the last time we had a porcini (cep, penny bun) or steinsopp in Norwegian year here, well over 10 years I think!! There are huge […]
Foraging / Fruit / Fungi
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Forage in Malvikmarka
A productive afternoon in the woods yesterday on the Malvik side of Solemsvåttan with my Swiss helper Julia Albrecht with a good haul of bilberries and the year’s […]
Fungi
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Mushrooms for dinner!
Agaricus spp. (champignon / sjampinjong) growing near a compost area in the garden!! Wood mushroom / snøballsjampinjong? Post Views: 128
Foraging / Fungi / walks
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Forbord to Malvik bike push!
Pushed the bike along a path through the woods with protrubing tree roots looking for some late edible fungi… Post Views: 89
Fungi / walks
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Malvik walk
Yesterday I had a walk in the steep north facing woods east of Malvikbakk only 5 minutes by bike from home. I’d found a lot of edible fungi […]
Fungi
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Productive morning in the woods
I was surprised to find so many chantarelle and winter chantarelle in the woods this morning. It’s pretty dry here now in this unusually warm late September weather…so […]
Cycling / Fungi
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Bike ride to the shops at Sveberg
For a change I cycled to the shops at Sveberg rather than cycling to town…this also gave me the opportunity to check out the fungi in the woods… […]
Bulbs / Cellar vegetables / Food / Fungi / Tubers
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Lily-chufa-parsley stir fry
Tonight’s dinner was a lily – chufa – parsley stir-fry (chinese style) with buckwheat noodles… Lily = bulbs of Lilium martagon (Martagon lily), an important forest garden source […]
Birds / Fungi
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Long cycle forage to the shops
As I was working from home yesterday and not doing my normal bike ride, I decided to do a longer ride over the hills to the post office […]
Berries / Fungi
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Fungi 26th August 2016
It was actually bilberries that were the evening’s objective, but when you see several ceps / steinsopp in the woods and hedgehogs/piggsopp and saffron milk caps / matriske […]
Foraging / Fungi / Malvik
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Mushrooming 20th August 2016
Some pictures from yesterday evening’s trip to the woods looking for fungi!! After several years with almost no ceps / porcini, I found about 10 in good condition […]
Fungi
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End of July fungi foray
A collection of pictures from 3 hours in the woods….about 30 minutes to cycle up to the start of the trail and 15 minutes down again.. Post Views: […]
Fungi
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Strawberries and cream
I was out in the woods looking for fungi yesterday….the last thing I’d expected to find in the dark coniferous woods was strawberries and cream ;) No, I […]
Berries / Foraging / Fungi
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Cycle home forage!
Pictures from my cycle home from work with a large detour up into the woods to pick bilberries and fungi! The video that comes first is the magical […]
Food / Fungi / Perennial vegetables / Spice
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Soba with stir-fried Golpared veggies
I made soba with stir-fried golpared veggies and wild fungi for tonight’s dinner. Soba is buckwheat noodles. Golpar is the Turkish spice usually made from the ground seed […]
Fungi
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Xmas fresh fungi!
Never picked fresh fungi for Xmas before. Picked these terracotta hedgehogs / rødgule piggsopp / hydnum rufescens here on Nesodden near Oslo! They were used in the xmas […]
Fungi
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Ink caps / Blekksopp coming into season
Passed these on my bike ride to work today…will stop off to pick them for dinner on the way home…. Post Views: 98