Hi,
Thanks for giving me the chance to try wild boletes. I chopped up the cap and stems, added them to onions that I had softening by simmering. I simmered all that and toward the end, added some chopped garlic, thyme, basil, oregano, worcestershire sauce, sesame oil, and red wine. It tastes very good but the small, white worms are visually off putting! : ) I'll go through it tomorrow and try to pick out some more worms. There are not tons of them but the distressing thing is that they don't melt, they boil up firmly and hang suspended in the mushroom broth like thick white pieces of thread. I researched maggots on the Internet and I guess that eating a few won't kill me but I think that you are on the right track about having standards for boletes! : ) I think after I pick out some more of the tiny worms, I should puree the broth and see if that disguises them! : ) It tastes too good to throw out.
Oats Wild
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Pajarito Ski Area Mountain Bike Trails
Went on WI hike today to Pajarito Ski Area mountain bike trails. Leon led it. There were 19 people. A few were way behind and kept in touch with walkie-talkies but they never caught up to the main group. We ate lunch on the Rim Run overlook of the Valle Caldera.
Mahlon was searching for boletus. He comes with his wife (need to find out her name) and his dog, Jake. He scours the conifor forest for boletus. He found some today that were not up to his standards so he gave them to me. I'll stew them tonight. They seem to be the real thing. Yesterday, I found some mushrooms along FR181, American Springs Road, that were most likely the aspen boletus. I showed them to Mahlon and David K. this morning and then recycled them in the forest. I can see the difference now. The boletus has a very bulbous, fat stem. David B. says that he stews the sponge or tubes of the boletus along with the cap. Mahlon takes it off.
David K. found a small handful of chanterelles. They are very tiny!
I need to buy a mushroom book for this area. David K. recommended two:
Chanterelle - A Rocky Mountain Mushroom Book by Millie Miller and Cyndi Nelson, Johnson Books, Boulder, 1986.
Wild Mushrooms of Telluride, Ed by Linnea Gillman, et. al., Fungophile, Inc., Denver, 1996.
I mostly walked and talked with a woman named Donna from Santa Fe, who came up with her brother, Bill. She likes to look at flowers too but seems to know more about them than me. She took a flower ID course at Santa Fe Community College from Bill Neuwirth and says he's a good teacher. Becky, who is the flower guru, came along for part of the trip.
Mahlon was searching for boletus. He comes with his wife (need to find out her name) and his dog, Jake. He scours the conifor forest for boletus. He found some today that were not up to his standards so he gave them to me. I'll stew them tonight. They seem to be the real thing. Yesterday, I found some mushrooms along FR181, American Springs Road, that were most likely the aspen boletus. I showed them to Mahlon and David K. this morning and then recycled them in the forest. I can see the difference now. The boletus has a very bulbous, fat stem. David B. says that he stews the sponge or tubes of the boletus along with the cap. Mahlon takes it off.
David K. found a small handful of chanterelles. They are very tiny!
I need to buy a mushroom book for this area. David K. recommended two:
Chanterelle - A Rocky Mountain Mushroom Book by Millie Miller and Cyndi Nelson, Johnson Books, Boulder, 1986.
Wild Mushrooms of Telluride, Ed by Linnea Gillman, et. al., Fungophile, Inc., Denver, 1996.
I mostly walked and talked with a woman named Donna from Santa Fe, who came up with her brother, Bill. She likes to look at flowers too but seems to know more about them than me. She took a flower ID course at Santa Fe Community College from Bill Neuwirth and says he's a good teacher. Becky, who is the flower guru, came along for part of the trip.
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