Comments on: Fall Foraging – Porcinis http://www.digginfood.com/2009/08/fall-foraging-porcinis/ DigginFood is a vegetable garden blog by Willi Galloway that serves up recipes, organic gardening tips, backyard chickens and coop information, DIY garden projects, and more! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: carribou hunt http://www.digginfood.com/2009/08/fall-foraging-porcinis/comment-page-1/#comment-4789 carribou hunt Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:25:00 +0000 http://www.digginfood.com/?p=1924#comment-4789 Google helped me find your site. Thanks for posting I will be back :) Google helped me find your site. Thanks for posting I will be back :)

]]> By: John http://www.digginfood.com/2009/08/fall-foraging-porcinis/comment-page-1/#comment-3987 John Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:52:30 +0000 http://www.digginfood.com/?p=1924#comment-3987 My wife Justine and I have been guest bloggers for the past month while Willi has been away. Now she's back so we're done filling in. We hope to do more guest posts in the future though! My wife Justine and I have been guest bloggers for the past month while Willi has been away. Now she’s back so we’re done filling in. We hope to do more guest posts in the future though!

]]> By: Seana http://www.digginfood.com/2009/08/fall-foraging-porcinis/comment-page-1/#comment-3981 Seana Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:34:23 +0000 http://www.digginfood.com/?p=1924#comment-3981 Just wondeirng why this is your last post? Love your website and blog - great information and suggestions. Just wondeirng why this is your last post? Love your website and blog – great information and suggestions.

]]> By: gardenmentor http://www.digginfood.com/2009/08/fall-foraging-porcinis/comment-page-1/#comment-3978 gardenmentor Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:50:45 +0000 http://www.digginfood.com/?p=1924#comment-3978 I adore boletes! Seasonally, I pick them up fresh from Seattle's Foraged and Found at the Ballard Farmer's market. Foraged and Found does exactly that -- forages for wild foods. Boletes not only dry well and even seem to take on a better flavor as they age dried to dust, but they can be frozen too. Foraged and Found offers dried mushrooms year-round. (Yesterday at the market they had fresh Lobster mushrooms, which actually grow on other mushrooms, and the juiciest huckleberries from deep in the wild -- yum!) Dried bolete powder mixed with butter makes a fantastic porcini butter to toss with pasta or spread on toast or even used to "glaze" the crust of a pizza. And, as a card carrying member of PSMS (Puget Sound Mycological Society), I must reiterate the caveat at the end of the article -- take extreme care foraging for your own. Correctly ID'ing fungi can be tricky. I'm no pro myself; what I learned in my mushroom ID classes (more than anything else) is how easy it is to get yourself sick (or dead) by mushroom. Leave the harvest to those with lots of experience -- or convince them to take you foraging a few times so you can hone your ID skills. Cheers on the topic and on the recipes. I'd love more on wild mushrooms! I adore boletes! Seasonally, I pick them up fresh from Seattle’s Foraged and Found at the Ballard Farmer’s market. Foraged and Found does exactly that — forages for wild foods. Boletes not only dry well and even seem to take on a better flavor as they age dried to dust, but they can be frozen too. Foraged and Found offers dried mushrooms year-round. (Yesterday at the market they had fresh Lobster mushrooms, which actually grow on other mushrooms, and the juiciest huckleberries from deep in the wild — yum!)

Dried bolete powder mixed with butter makes a fantastic porcini butter to toss with pasta or spread on toast or even used to “glaze” the crust of a pizza.

And, as a card carrying member of PSMS (Puget Sound Mycological Society), I must reiterate the caveat at the end of the article — take extreme care foraging for your own. Correctly ID’ing fungi can be tricky. I’m no pro myself; what I learned in my mushroom ID classes (more than anything else) is how easy it is to get yourself sick (or dead) by mushroom. Leave the harvest to those with lots of experience — or convince them to take you foraging a few times so you can hone your ID skills.

Cheers on the topic and on the recipes. I’d love more on wild mushrooms!

]]> By: Kalin http://www.digginfood.com/2009/08/fall-foraging-porcinis/comment-page-1/#comment-3977 Kalin Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:12:18 +0000 http://www.digginfood.com/?p=1924#comment-3977 Yummy. I can't wait to try the porcini ravioli. I had asked for a pasta maker, but I will give the rolling pin a try. And I too recall the joys of "hunting" mushrooms. In college, we found a slew of morel mushrooms growing outside of the apartment building. They were amazing! Yummy. I can’t wait to try the porcini ravioli. I had asked for a pasta maker, but I will give the rolling pin a try. And I too recall the joys of “hunting” mushrooms. In college, we found a slew of morel mushrooms growing outside of the apartment building. They were amazing!

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