Wild Mushrooms

[Malarkey]

@Mullach_Ide

@Malarkey

@Julio_Geordio

How do you know if a mushroom is magic or just a disappointing tasteless fungus?

Jaysus, sin é tough one. But, first and foremost: never ever eat a mushroom about which you are not a million per cent.

I am not interested in magic mushrooms whatsoever. Other lads can give their tuppence.

There are books. But, short answer: you have to grow up with mushrooms – same as with a lot of other things. You learn more from your parents in one walk than ever from a book. Still, some books – and YouTube, increasingly – are not to be scorned.

I do not think you can confuse (delicious) field mushrooms with too much else – and not readily with poisonous items. The pink gills – running to brown as they age – are significant.

The main problem is a yoke called ‘yellow stainer’. I bring a penknife to snick stalks in the field, which eliminates a yellow stainer on the rare occasion I have run across them:

https://youtu.be/Z08ejgIi290

That said, someone once gave me a package of mushrooms – later realized to include yellow stainers. As I fried the package’s contents, the smell of ink and muted urine – yellow stainers’ signature when cooked – was unignorable. Had to throw out the whole lot – still more acutely annoying because 2017 was a poor summer for mushrooms.

But this thread is not for such advice…

Fond memories of heading off early arriving back with mushrooms strung on grass stems, cooking them straight on the range top with a bit of salt and the juice in the middle. My mother used to boil the rest up in milk.

Same here with the juice… Enough to make you believe in a Creator.

Never had them in the milk broth, which friends swear by.

Do not, in most contexts, at all like milk but must try mushrooms in this fashion, for reasons of research.

[Malarkey]

@the_mixer_walsh

By God, I’ll be up in the morning early for a walk down the fields to gather a bag of them, you can’t beat a few wild field mushrooms off the pan in the morning

The weather is perfect.

Since I dislike humid conditions, mushrooms are the only upside.

[Ambrose_McNulty]

Ye’re land is too good for sheep!

[Malarkey]

@Ambrose_McNulty

Ye’re land is too good for sheep!

Maybe… But I can only call mycological matters as I found them – and continue to find them…

Where are you from?

[Mullach_Ide]

@TreatyStones

@Fagan_ODowd

Wouldn’t

Would you pick random ones in the woodland? Seems dodgy.

We were always told not to pick in the vicinity of the ditch.
Take the height of the hedgerow/trees as a rule of thumb for distance from the ditch to exclude.

[Ambrose_McNulty]

South Galway. Did you every hear an interview of a guy called Paul Stamets? He’s an expert on fungus and has some interesting theories/observations on them. The largest living organism in the world is a fungus in some forest in America. He has featured on the Alt Right Joe Rogan podcast.

[anon61878697]

My people eat wild mushrooms and dance in thanks to the great spirit.

[glenshane]

@Ambrose_McNulty

South Galway. Did you every hear an interview of a guy called Paul Stamets? He’s an expert on fungus and has some interesting theories/observations on them. The largest living organism in the world is a fungus in some forest in America. He has featured on the Alt Right Joe Rogan podcast

I had you for a closet rogan fan alright.
Changing your mind by Michael Pollans may be the second greatest book ever written

[anon7035031]

One of Bill Hick’s best…

“you don’t see ducks lined up to take the elevator to fly south, they take off from the ground, ya moron”

[Malarkey]

@Ambrose_McNulty

South Galway. Did you every hear an interview of a guy called Paul Stamets? He’s an expert on fungus and has some interesting theories/observations on them. The largest living organism in the world is a fungus in some forest in America. He has featured on the Alt Right Joe Rogan podcast.

No, to be honest, don’t know Paul Stamets.

[Malarkey]

@glenshane

@Ambrose_McNulty

South Galway. Did you every hear an interview of a guy called Paul Stamets? He’s an expert on fungus and has some interesting theories/observations on them. The largest living organism in the world is a fungus in some forest in America. He has featured on the Alt Right Joe Rogan podcast

I had you for a closet rogan fan alright.
Changing your mind by Michael Pollans may be the second greatest book ever written

Michael Pollan I do know and his books are tremendous.

[Lazarus]

@Malarkey sudden bizaare interest in mushrooms explained

Artist Gets Tattoo On Forehead Because Magic Mushrooms ‘Told Him’ To

Tom Wood in NEWS

An American artist has had a tattoo inked on his face that says ‘it’s f***ed up but true’ because - he claims - magic mushrooms ‘told him’ to.

Well, that all seems fair and above board.

The 19-year-old artist and producer, who wishes to only be known by the moniker ‘The Opposite of Sadness’ or TOOS, claimed that he was told by the universe to get the facial tattoo while he was ‘tripping really hard’.

You’d have to be, mate.

[Malarkey]

Getting pinker. And more savoury.

Savage rain due tomorrow evening and night. Heat likewise forecast. Should mean a serious flush of mushrooms at weekend.

[glenshane]

What are you doing with all these mushrooms @Malarkey? You’ll be sick looking at them at this rate of going.

[Raylan]

https://europerecipes.com/uk-and-ireland-recipes/irish-boxty-with-mushrooms-and-whiskey-gravy/

[glenshane]

So that’s what he’s up to

[carryharry]

Tis like fuck.

Plenty of sheep up Windgap direction too may I add.

[Malarkey]

@glenshane

What are you doing with all these mushrooms @Malarkey? You’ll be sick looking at them at this rate of going.

Would eat that amount for fun.

Anyhow, have plenty of people whose name is in pot for bag.

[glasagusban]

Have a look around at these guys, you’ll find it interesting I’d say https://instagram.com/ballyhouramushrooms?igshid=11il72u19bbe

[Malarkey]

@glasagusban

Have a look around at these guys, you’ll find it interesting I’d say https://instagram.com/ballyhouramushrooms?igshid=11il72u19bbe

Thanks. Yes, Ballyhoura are really interesting. Have bought some of their stuff.

Hard to get ceps and chanterelles around my way. Quite a few boletes – of the inedible kind – around last year. Chicken of the wood I have got, plus parasol mushrooms and shaggy inkcaps.