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Thursday, May 15, 2008

I am not a fungi



Hey its that time when I never stop looking for mushrooms.



my mouth is dry..







This is yesterdays loot. Top picture, pretty, large and good but getting old, second picture large and beautiful scaly polypore but inedible though suitable for making broth just texturally rough, everything after that is good to go, oh except for the yellowish agrocybes, hard to tell which ones arent poison, and the rest just taste bitter. The last shot is my delicious harvest of bountiful ladies. Oh....very, very first picture - the big boy of the lot. Super fresh super ready for the grill.




Plus a snake. Cold so it moved real slow

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17 comments:

deb said...

you grow these? are they wild? i feel stupid asking. they are so interesting looking.

Determined said...

what kind of food can you make out of snake?

Lara Croft said...

Go the tubeeeeeeeeeee, nothing nothing nothing LOL

Christo Gonzales said...

debbyd: wild. the are the portobello of the wild, they are called wine caps.

solarisgal: fritters, buffalo style, pickled if you are gamey like that.

lara croft: thats funny...but when I looked real fast to one side, I thought I saw someone.....in the middle of nowhere

Christo Gonzales said...

wait...stop....I let the snake go! there were no fritters or fricasse!

deb said...

check your email.:)

that is very cool.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, we got to go on a mushroom hunt! no loot though, so sad. snake....ewwwww.

Dana said...

I think the snake was my favorite part - not that I have anything against beautiful mushrooms ... I just think snakes are pretty cool!

buffalodick said...

Was that snake a blue racer? Cool pix!

Unknown said...

So cool! And I really like the pictures of the snake. Is that Black Racer or what?

C. said...

HA! You're like the Crocodile Dundee of Mushrooms! YEAH! Where was this path?!

tavolini said...

wowza, look at all those mushrooms! I have visions of stroganoff, spaghetti sauce, mushroom tacos and grilled mushrooms dancing through my head :)

so, you threw the snake on the grill?

Tanya Kristine said...

dude. you pick wild mushrooms nad eat them? amzing.

Christo Gonzales said...

andie: some days are good some days are not...

dana: the snake was trying to warm up

buff: black racer I do believe

bina: it was cool, and I did handle it a little since it was so sedate

claudia: palisades park way outside of NYC

tavolini: you have the same visions and voices I have

TK: hullo...did you just wake up?

Spin said...

That's one big snake.

urban vegan said...

Very cool. I would be too afraid to forage for 'shrooms....with my luck, I'd pick the wrong ones, even after careful instruction.

BEautiful photo of the snake.

Christo Gonzales said...

spin: it was like 5 feet or so

urban vegan: I have offered to send you some perfectly edible wild mushrooms and some new mexico chile

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