Haven't been out. No time. Projects are done now. A nice patch of Boletes (no bitter ones this time) would make my year.

No wil' mush out there?

Had some chanterelles this year but it's been hot and dry for nearly a month now and thus no fungi among I these days.

Pretty typical for my woods.

I put up four vac sealed packs in the freezer and will make a pie with some sooner or later when I feel like baking.

Always hopeful for summer boletes but no rain, no 'shroomage.

Sliced up some oyster mushrooms and some shitake I found at our local farmers market. The oysters were really firm. Probably use them for soup. Shitakes were great.

I went looking this afternoon (98- 101F) to see if the Sparassis are up yet, if at all. It is time to start watching for them. They seem to be able to power through no rain and hard woodland soils when they feel like it. Not seen so far though. No rain to happen for this month at all it looks like so we'll see.

We had a hot rainy period followed by several days of hot over 95F. Wish I had gone out a couple days after the rain.

My daughter picks lots of chatarelle from the forest around our house in Sweden.

You pass one day and there is nothing.

Next day they are there.

Delicious.

I found a mess of chanterelles once enroute to my hunting spot 2 hours NW of here. Nothing was there the last 5 times I checked. Found some very fresh, pure white (rough cap surface) buttons at the store. They'll do for now.

Yesterday we had guests coming to lunch at our home.

Walking in the mountains in Verbier, Switzerland, came to a restaurant that had chanterelles for sale.

Picked 4 boxes of 500 grams each and to them home.

My wife, and later on our guests, were very happy!

How were they prepared Saeed?

My wife fries them.

Guests were adding them to all sorts of dishes.

In fact, I am glad I bought that lot.

We just had fried steak with chanterelles.

Absolutely delicious!

Sounds delicious Saeed. Went out for a drive yesterday after a steady light rain for 24 hours. Nothing. Not even a parasol (poisonous) mushroom to be found.
But, we went to an Indian grocery store and found some China white thin-stemmed mushrooms that looked fresh and almost pure white. Sauteed some with my eggs. Delicious.

Bought the ones on the right. Enoki Mushrooms.

I'm finding the wrong kind in the wrong place. These things keep popping up among the seeds I have planted in my first try at straw bale gardening. By the way Ann, I am getting a good showing from the Maxibel bush bean seeds you shared. Whether they can produce before first frost will be a horse race. I got a very late start.

Very nice, Bill! I hope the beans produce for you. Probably a coprinoid mushroom in your straw. Common. That's not a method of gardening I would use, however. Requires too much watering and nutrients would be lacking. I do use straw as a top mulch to help keep growing medium surface cooler and reduce weeds.

Thanks Ann. I wanted to try this because I was too late to start raised beds this summer and the soil here is an issue. At worst, the bales will give me some great mulch/compost for next spring.
Joel Karsten wrote the book, and here is a friend of his getting a second season out of the bales.
You condition the bales with fertilizer and water for two weeks before planting, to jump start internal composting. Mine got up to 124 degrees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7MCA_ad4yk&t=22s