Newbie from North Hants

[Robinthebobin]

Hello everyone

Just thought I'd pop on and say hello and what a fab site WAB is...I look forward to participating and learning more about wild Britain.

I have just moved to the countryside after living in the centre of a town for the past five years (although I'm a countrygirl at heart having grown up in the Northumbrian countryside) and I'm thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to walk in the relative wild each and every day. I love preserving, learning about more alternative recipes than just blackberry jam and crab apple jelly plus photography (sometimes hard to do with dog in tow) and have recently got into fungi identification. I'm not brave enough to eat anything except Boletus Edulis and even then they have had lots of maggots in...even the younguns

Anyway that's me.
Bye for now.
Robinthebobin

[nursiebernard]

Hello and Welcome

Kate

[Soupdragon]

Hello! I'm not a regular here, but I'll welcome you anyway!

I also like making jams and preserves from hedgerow fruits. Recently used sloes and bullace with brambles (and some water from steeped juniper berries I got from a supermarket to give a bit of interest.)

I'm not brave enough to try fungi foraging, though we've often thought we might go on a course. I'm impressed you ate the ones with maggots in - very brave!

[artdemole]

Welcome to Wab.Hope you enjoy being here.Please take a look at th Edibility of plants thread.

[operanut1972]

Welcome indeed to the site,

Look forward to learning about our Natural larder!

[Kayleigh]

Hi and welcome from another living in Northants...

[Deb London]

Hi Robinthebobin,

Welcome to WAB

Deb

[treecreeper]

Hi Robin and welcome

I'm with you on wild fungi. The maggots put me right off eating them, quite apart from the possibility of misidentification.

I suppose you could argue that since the maggots have only ever eaten fungus, they are fungus. No...doesn't work.

[Jim Ford]

I think I've mentioned this before, but it's worth retelling.

I used to work in a factory that had an airfield attached to the site. Around this time of year one of the 'old boys' used to go collecting mushrooms at lunchtime and always return with a bag full. This aroused the interest of one of the other workers who commented the he and his wife were very fond of mushrooms, so the following day he joined the old boy in a forage, and duly also came bag with a bagful.

The following day he said that he and his wife were frying the mushrooms in the evening, when lots of maggots came wriggling to the surface. His wife rushed to the toilet and was violently sick. When this was related to the old boy, he said "Nah, I just flip 'em out with a spatula!". The mushroom 'novice' never went mushroom picking with the old boy again!

Jim

[operanut1972]

That is enough to put anyone off mushrooms for life (yuck)