Not quite in season

I love mushrooms and the 50's so of course I just had to buy these paper borders. I don't know yet where to put them but they are pretty as they are, even on a table (or on the floor as they are in the photo).

Mushroom pie, anyone?

At last there are (highly poisnous) fly agarics by the roadsides! I don't mean to use them in pies but they are a sign that there are other mushrooms as well. I found a lot of chantrelles in July-early August but after that there haven't been any mushrooms in our neck of woods. The appearance of fly agarics gets my hopes up again.

As promised

I told you a couple of days ago that in autumn every other post is about mushrooms, so here we go again. Today we are going to eat mushroom risotto with parasol mushrooms (ukonsieni in Finnish) and ceps (herkkutatti), green beans, white beans and spinach. Yesterday we ate a pie with sheep polypores (lampaankääpä) chanterelles, rice and cold-smoked reindeer. I love autumn!

The love(s) of my life

Sorry folks, it is the time of the year when every other post is about mushrooms. I just love ceps - they look lovely, taste amazing and are easy to dry for future use. The first ones I fry in butter and offer toast with them or nothing at all. After eating them plain a couple of times I do risottos, pasta, pies etc, anything tastes good with ceps!

Now in forests near you

We went mushroom hunting yesterday evening and came back with these lovelies. Guess what we'll do in the weekend!

Optimistic thoughts

We are going to go mushroom hunting on Saturday! You know, when it rains there is hope. The photo is from a couple of years back, lets see if I can show something like this on Sunday.