Posts tagged ‘mushroom’
Mushroom Hunting
Spent the day mushroom hunting.
A sure sign that I was not having any luck, I started taking photos, mostly of the gazillions of mushrooms that I didn’t want.
Quick, took a picture of the sunshine, if I hadn’t looked in that direction at that moment, I might have missed it.
On down the road, tried a new spot and had better luck.
Boletes on the left, hedgehogs on the right,
and a truffle.
Don’t know what kind of truffle it is, not gonna eat it, but it was fun to find one.
on the inside
Love hedgehogs, they might be my favorite mushroom.
They taste great and they have these weird spikes on the bottom that make them very easy to identify (and inspired their name).
I’m not the only one who loves hedgehogs.
Oh right, “knitting” blog, I am swatching for Catherine Lowe Simple Couture 4.01 Hat and Cowl with CL IV alpaca silk yarn:
one big ball of yarn for both the hat & cowl
custom wound for my order!
I LOVE summer, but there are things I like about fall
Busy couple of weeks. No time to blog!
Weekend before last we went huckleberry picking:
And mushroom hunting:
chanterelles
It’s killing me that we haven’t had time to do more berry picking, the berries are the best I’ve seen in years:
huckleberries
and when the huckleberries are this good, the blueberries are INSANE:
blueberries
DD asked, “When you close your eyes, do you see huckleberries?”
Yes.
Love it.
Oh yeah, and
THE HUSKIES BEAT USC! WOOOO HOOOOOO!
xmas cards vs. mushrooms
I don’t know what possessed me to make xmas cards.
Like, addressing and writing cards doesn’t take long enough,
AND
it turns out making cards takes a lot longer than I expected.
The Plan today was to finish the cards (the making part, not the addressing and writing part), but it was a beautiful day and DH suggested a quick trip to the mountains to look for mushrooms.
1) Measure and tear paper
– or-
2) Tromp around in the woods looking for mushrooms…
Mushrooms: 1
Cards: 0
The cards didn’t stand a chance on a day like today.
…and three days after that
Wednesday:
ETA:
See them three days earlier:
https://knittinginmind.com/2008/03/16/28-hours-later/
and the day before that:
https://knittinginmind.com/2008/03/15/shitake-mushrooms/
Oh, right, this is a knitting blog:
Koolhaas 3
Koolhaas Hat (large) – IK Holiday Gifts 2007
Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Worsted, color M120 Limeade,
~77g on US7 needles
Next up, one more hat:
in Noro Kureyon color 188
28 hours later…
ETA:
See the day before “Shitake Mushrooms”:
https://knittinginmind.com/2008/03/15/shitake-mushrooms/
See them GROW “and three days after that”:
https://knittinginmind.com/2008/03/19/and-three-days-after-that/
Shitake Mushrooms
Here’s something DH does in his spare time:
growing shitake mushrooms
(mushroom kit from Fungi Perfecti)
Evolution of Mushroom
His best crop so far prompted perusal of the cookbooks in anticipation of the harvest feast:
Beef Wellington with Shitake
Stuffed Shitake
Beef with Shitake
Chicken Rolls with Shitake
Asian Rice Salad with Crabmeat & Shitake
Monkfish with Shitake Mushrooms and Fresh Ginger
from The Complete Mushroom Cookbook by Antonio Carluccio
and
Mushrooms Favorite Recipes by Andrea Kösslinger & Sibylle Reiter
Ah, Saturday morning, coffee and cookbooks…
ETA:
See them grow “28 hours later”:
https://knittinginmind.com/2008/03/16/28-hours-later/
and GROW “and three days after that”:
https://knittinginmind.com/2008/03/19/and-three-days-after-that/>