cab
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Honey fungusJust found a couple of big clumps of honey mushroom (Armillaria mellea, if memory serves) on the way home this evening. It's not such bad eating when cooked, but I feel that I've yet to find the killer recipe for it. Any ideas?
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Treacodactyl
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Can people have a reaction to honey fungus?
Not tried it myself, but what does it taste like?
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cab
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Indigestible raw, but I've yet to hear of a bad reaction to it cooked.
What's it taste like... Errrm... It's kind of slightly bitter mushroom taste, fairly intense.
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Mat S
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Ate some on the weekend, using a recipe from the Antonio Carluccio recipe book I borrowed from the library. Boil the mushrooms for 4-5 mins and discard the water afterwards. Fry off little onion, garlic, chilli, add shrooms, throw into hot cooked pasta with (his trademark) pepper and parmesan. Strange tasting mushroom but seemed perfectly digestible, I'll pick more if I see some.
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cab
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Hmmmm... Mat, that's interesting. I'll try something along those lines, thanks!
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Mat S
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My pleasure - your monthly wild food articles have inspired regular foraging efforts round here.
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Treacodactyl
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| cab wrote: | | What's it taste like... Errrm... It's kind of slightly bitter mushroom taste, fairly intense. |
Being strong and slightly bitter would it not be useful in Chinese cookery, like a shitake(sp)? Perhaps in something sweet or even sweet 'n sour?
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cab
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| Treacodactyl wrote: | | cab wrote: | | What's it taste like... Errrm... It's kind of slightly bitter mushroom taste, fairly intense. |
Being strong and slightly bitter would it not be useful in Chinese cookery, like a shitake(sp)? Perhaps in something sweet or even sweet 'n sour? |
I've tried that. Works reasonably well, but not as well as oyster mushrooms or Agrocybe cylindracea.
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JonO
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Is this Honey Fungus ? I have it on a log in my garden and my friend thought it might be ?
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cab
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| JonO wrote: | | Is this Honey Fungus ? I have it on a log in my garden and my friend thought it might be ? |
Honey fungus is VERY variable. But I don't think that's it. What colour are the gills, and does it have a ring?
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Bugs
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We were shown something like that on a mushroom walk once, it was called something sounding like foliotus, pholiotus?
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cab
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| Bugs wrote: | | We were shown something like that on a mushroom walk once, it was called something sounding like foliotus, pholiotus? |
Pholiota. Several species, the most common being P. squarrosa, the shaggy poliota. It isn't that, though. Could be another Pholiota, could be an Armillaria (a honey mushroon or a relative of some sort), but it's PROBABLY sulphur tuft (Hypholoma fasciulaire, if memory and spelling serve).
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JonO
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By a ring I presume you mean a kinda collar ? If so then no. The gills are green, here's another one :
p.s. Sorry to hijack the thread !
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cab
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Looks most like a sulphur tuft. Really common, ever so slightly poisonous. Not one to eat, I'm afraid 
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JonO
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Checked it out on the net looking for Sulphur Tuft and I'd have to agree looks exactly the same ! Well done and cheers,
Jon.
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