Striking smell of aniseed
The weekend gave us its usual mixture of weather and luck, Justin (from now on known as “Golden”), Simon (Brooksy- although we prefer “lucky Eddie”) and I (Neil – from now on “Brewstien”) had a few hours of “shrooming” over the weekend with the excuse of walking the 3 dogs and 1 puppy.
The usual girolle haunts were a little sparse and perhaps disappointing. However, amid the deeper undergrowth of the woodland and well off the beaten track, there were several discoveries that lifted the heart.
I (of course) made the first discovery of a Cep (which I must point out was delicious) and to be fair the second Cep by Golden could only be described as a “beauty”.
My Cep
Golden's Cep
After the Ceps there were a mass of Fungi – too many to list here, but of the edibles two small spots of “Clitocybe odora” or aniseed toadstool.
We will be out again this week, and summer holidays start very soon – “the annual French fungi trip near Montpellier” where I hope to work on some recipe’s – especially for the ‘Clitocybes’ – slow roast Pork belly with odora ?
Farewell until then
Brewster / Golden / Lucky Eddie
