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 didn’t eat them, leaving them for the elves…
Called strawberries and cream, the bleeding tooth fungus, the red-juice tooth, or Devil’s tooth, Hydnellum peckii (Norwegian: skarp rustbrunpigg)is a widespread species in North America, Europe and Asia. It is related to the hedgehog fungus. Sadly, it doesn’t taste much like strawberries and cream, tasting very sharp…
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 moment when I discover a large ring of hedgehog fungi in the forest :)
Saksvikkorsen on the pilgrim’s way into Nidarosdommen in Trondheim
Viewpoint at Saksvikkorsen on the pilgrim’s way into Nidarosdommen in Trondheim. Good views into Trondheim after a steep climb from the fjord! I’m about half way up from the fjord to the bilberry woods (my destination) here!
View over Trondheim from Saksvikkorsen with the new Grilstad marina in the foreground and Bymarka behind…
View over Trondheim from Saksvikkorsen
View over Trondheim from Saksvikkorsen with the new Grilstad marina in the foreground
Stephen Barstow 43 mins · The Pilgrim’s bench
112 km to walk on the pilgrim’s way to the historical village Stiklestad..
Masses of bilberries / blåbær!
Masses of bilberries / blåbær!
Masses of bilberries / blåbær!
Good bilberry / blåbær terrain!
A few chantarelles / kantarell on the way up
White gold…ring of hedgehog fungi / piggsopp
Beautiful cirrus clouds (James Yeoman?) on the way home
Beautiful cirrus clouds (James Yeoman?) on the way home
Sunset
The mushroom haul: Birch bolete (rødskrubb), chantarelle, saffran milk caps (matriske) and hedgehog fungus (piggsopp)
Birch bolete (rødskrubb), chantarelle (kantarell) and saffran milk caps (matriske)!
The haul from my cycle ride home (arriving home at 10:30 pm with only bilberrries for dinner!) apart from, bottom left, which are saskatoon berries picked in my garden!
The veggies: Allium senescens x nutans hybrid onions, Malva moschata (musk mallow), Broad bean tops, Atriplex hortensis “Rubra” (red orach), Sonchus oleraceus (common sow thistle), chili, puff balls, Leccinum versipelle (orange birch bolete / rødskrubb), piggsopp/hedgehog fungus and at the top young parsnip roots (thinnings)Heracleum maximum is the North American Cow Parsnip…Heracleum maximum is the North American Cow Parsnip…
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 of Heracleum persicum (Tromsøpalme). To me the taste of “golpar” made with different Heracleum species isn’t very different. Tonight I used Heracleum maximum seeds fresh harvested from the garden to spice the stir-fry (instead of cumin which I used to use).
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 veggie nut roast!
These are not good to eat…have to pick them young
