What I foraged today!

[ancee]

Does anyone know if you can eat apples that aren't quite ready? My boss's Dad has 6 apple trees and keeps whacking the apples off the tree and putting em in a carrier bag for me. They are all terribly bruised and battered by the time I get them home, I spent an hour cutting all the bad bits out and cooked them to a pulp but when I tasted the mush it tasted sour but not in a good way! Sort of when you bite into a 'Ripen at home apple' that you buy from a supermarket which never happens to ripen but goes off before you eat it! Thess are eating apples not cooking apples so i'd have thought they'd be sweeter. I did try to tell him that you are supposed to give the apples a gentle tug and if they don't yield then they are not ready but I think he just likes whacking them with a broom handle! I don't like throwing them away so have to keep pretending that we are eating them all! HELP!

[Farmer_Gyles]

i've just got home and dried from a very wet fungi forgaging course .... we have a small bag filled with
Tawny Grisette
Orange Birch Bolete
Ochre Brittlegill
Mycena something
and some others
enough for a dinner or 3!

[veggiechicken]

Well done Farmer G. Enjoy your dinner
Wild mushroom foraging guide online

[northepaul]

i've just got home and dried from a very wet fungi forgaging course .... we have a small bag filled with
Tawny Grisette
Orange Birch Bolete
Ochre Brittlegill
Mycena something
and some others
enough for a dinner or 3!

I would have loved to do a course on mushroom foraging - I did hint for my birthday but instead got Mexican cookbook - maybe trying to tell me something?? How did you find out about it?

[northepaul]

I foraged some more damsons today, enough to make my long overdue mincemeat - (waiting for the russetts to be ready!!)
I saw loads of rosehips too - so will be taking my DD to help with that, as she loves rosehip and apple jelly!!
Chestnuts nearly ready too!!

[Bren In Pots]

Does anyone know if you can eat apples that aren't quite ready?

Could you use them for apple sauce and freeze it in ice cube trays.

[veggiechicken]

Or use them like crab apples as a setting agent in jam?

[Farmer_Gyles]

I would have loved to do a course on mushroom foraging - I did hint for my birthday but instead got Mexican cookbook - maybe trying to tell me something?? How did you find out about it?

i spent ages searching the world wide interweb superhighway and found several foraging courses .... most were full .... i was lucky to get on todays course .... and it was really good .... his website is Mushroom Walks & Forays
there were about 20 of us .... the one we did was puttenham common .... he ran through some basics, then off we went .... whatever we found, he identified it for us, told us about it, whether it was edible or not, all sorts .... learnt a lot today .... shame we all got soaked through!

there's another one very local to me, very new .... went out with them yesterday .... nice guys, good forage, but no mushrooms out locally yet .... they'll be running more local forages over the next couple of months .... they haven't finished their website yet, but it's at Wild Food UK, foraging courses, foraging trips, wild food guides, wild food recipes .... i might go out with them again sometime soon .... i know the area, but don't know all the wild food we can find and eat, and they do ....

[northepaul]

Thanks - I'll do some hunting then.

[veggiechicken]

You may be able find free fungus forays locally with the Woodland Trust, National Trust, Parks department. Its worth a Google around.

[veggiechicken]

Found this in the garden today. Its Jew's Ear and is edible but I'm still not brave enough to try eating it - its so gelatinous

Identifying Edible Mushrooms. The Jews Ear

[northepaul]

On Sunday I foraged about a kilo of Medlars....!!! Yummmm
Just need them to blet abit now

[darcyvuqua]

well after I bought alys fowlers foraging book last week my wife and I took the pooch out for a slow walk and foraged yes foraged our first pickings

it was.........

Himalayan Balsam I was well pleased to come across this so close to our house im going back to get enough to bake a loaf of bread with as we only took a little as we only took a little as we had nothing to carry it with

[cygnus]

Went to my "usual" foraging tree for wild yellow plums in Blaenavon last week - not one plum on there! Last year picked over 7 pounds and there was still loads left on the tree for others. So yesterday I tried another spot I go to near Rudry - managed to pick all of 16 yellow plums
This year has been a bad one for plums/damsons. So there will be no Wild Plum and Ginger jam for me, sadly.

dam!!!
tis you that has found my plum tree in rudry ladylottie!!!!!!! lol
i know of a load possibly an old orchard in leckwith cardiff
keith

[veggiechicken]

Hi cygnus - didn't realise you were another local I'll be chasing you come plum time for the location of that Leckwith orchard