Mushrooms

[jmf]

A new post on my blog:
https://randonnues.fr/activite/champignons-en-chartreuse/

[nuduke]

That's quite a harvest, JMF!
As you indicate in the blog, I trust they are good to eat.  Generally it's wise to keep away from the red ones!  Some are deadly.
Will you freeze a portion of the mushrooms and eat them progressively over the next few weeks and months or will you consume them all at once in a giant fungi festival?
John

[jbeegoode]

Yes, that did appear to be lots of mushrooms...mushroom pie, fillet mignon, fried mushrooms, breaded mushrooms, mushroom soup, mushroom a la this and that?

DF and her daughter went out to the Dragoon Mountains a few weeks back to pick peaches... and some pears and apples. They ended up with 350 pounds of peaches crammed into a small sedan! Peach preserves, an all day project. Peach pie was good, peach cobbler excellent and well, we ate quite a few peaches and still have some.
Jbee

[nuduke]

Add Mushroom Stroganoff to your list!


What an incredible amount of cooking, processing and preserving all that fruit!  High five to DF!  I know well it's physical stresses.  I bottled 37 jars of apple sauce from our garden tree the other day!
John

[jbeegoode]

Evening Nuduke,
I just read what you did with your apples that's very impressive. Did you do quarts or pints? How many pounds of apples did you use? Jon wants to know how big your tree is? Jon wants to know if there was any room for your leaves?
Nice chatting with you.
DF

[nuduke]

Hi DF,
Nice to hear from you directly.  You should join in more!..... or maybe our boys' chat doesn't hit the mark with you.  I hope Jbee keeps you up to date!
My apple processing is on a MUCH smaller scale than your peach-fest.  I'm not sure of the ingoing weight of apples I used but I save and sterilise all my assorted used jam (jelly), pickle, condiment etc. jars and process them into those which average about 400-450g / a bit less than or equals 1lb or 1 us pint. 
So that batch was something like 35 pints. A mere cupful in a swimming pool to compare with your 350 pounds of peaches!
John

[jmf]

I've added pictures of a second pick at the same place to my post.

[jbeegoode]

Oops, I think that the red ones with white bumps are a particular type containing psilocybin. If your jaw gets tight from smiling too much, then I'm correct. Some call that poison.

You boil the flavor out for a half of an hour and mix the juice with some wine to make what is commonly known as Mississippi Jungle Juice, in that region.
Jbee