Is this a blewitt?

annief · #1 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 12:49 PM

Growing in my veggie patch - (lots of compost over chiltern chalk)- was thinking it was some sort of blewit

NickCantle · #2 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 01:05 PM

With that shimmery centre and the lilac hues, I'd be pretty sure that this is L. nuda.

juliohevia · #3 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 01:42 PM

I would say so...Lepista Nuda.

yorkshireTrev · #4 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 02:25 PM

Id say it was too

Finding loads of these at the moment, made a blewit and chicken pie last night that were having for tea today.

juliohevia · #5 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 02:43 PM

Ho! you are lucky! - Here, in Berks, nothing! Too warm I believe, still 18 degrees.

On the other hand, I lot of Boletus/Leccinum.

Julio

annief · #6 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 03:54 PM

Thank you all - I will now add them to the pan

(just for the record re temp in berkshire - not sure what it is here (herts) but shorts and T-shirts are the order of the day)

Nice to have some good stuff as well as the honey fungus

annief · #7 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 08:12 PM

Didn't have time to make a chicken and blewitt pie so:-

olive oil, onion, bacon bits, chicken, blewitts- salt & black peper, handfull of tarragon; glug of white wine. Served with pasta -Yumeeeeeeeeee

& thanks again

fairplay · #8 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 10:23 PM

Hi Annief,

Glad you enjoyed your Blewitts, I enjoy Blewitts too, but even though I have been eating these occasionally for years now, if I eat too many they send me to the loo, my body just will not fully 'acclimatize' to them.

It seems to me this may be the first time you have tried these, so OK, it's seems you enjoyed them, but could you let us know, (without going into too much detail)! how you feel in the morning - ie., was there any after effects, no matter how mild or none what so ever.

Many thanks,

Neil.

annief · #9 (**permalink**) 31-10-2009, 07:54 AM

Thanks for the warning Neil.http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/fo...lies/smile.gif

So far so good for both of us - but there were only the 3 in the pics so maybe thats a gentle enough start. They were delicious,though so I think I may be hooked on trying more types(we have a very fungiferous garden). - subject to correct identification of course.

Any recommendations for good eating? We always have lots of boletus (don't know the types), but normally the squirrels and slugs have had a good go before I spot them - so have not been brave enough to try - are they good? Field mushrooms in the lawn, normally, but none so far this year.

We did once however, many years ago, have knobbley white very aromatic fungi growing under ground beneath an oak tree -which the squirrels were very keen to dig up. A german friend who was a chef came to stay was staggered and assured us they were truffles. He dug them up and sliced them thinly on scrambbled egg. No idea if he was right, never had truffles, before or since and they have never appeared again. Could he have been right - unfortunately no pics.

fairplay · #10 (**permalink**) 31-10-2009, 09:21 AM

So pleased you enjoyed them Annief. You are a lucky so and so if you have lot's of Boletes, but suspect most may be what used to be called the Red Cracking Bolete, which are not worth bothering about.

If however you have the larger, more fleshy Boletes (in your very own garden!) then you are very fortunate and I suggest at the end of next summer when they should start to appear again, send in some photos to have them checked out, and it sounds to me you are going to be making a lot of Wabbers very envious !

Regarding Truffles, many different species occur in Britain, most being mediocre, but we do get some good edible ones, but Truffles in Britain are clouded in secrecy and I do not know if we will ever get the true picture.
Do please though, sent some examples off to Kew if any more do show, and most important - keep it quiet, otherwise before you know it, you will have strangers digging in your garden, then you will have to buy a vicious dog.

Neil.