Yesterday we stopped by to visit some lovely friends who are lending us a tricycle and other kiddie bits and pieces for the imminent visit of my sister, her husband and their 2 lovely daughters. Our chums had just been wandering in their fields and picked lots of mushrooms and they kindly gave us some which we ate last night sauteed with butter and garlic - they were delicious.
As they were cooking we did call our chums to see if they'd eaten theirs yet and were still alive and kicking - you just never know when you're mushroom picking what you might find and having checked one of the mushroom recognition websites to note the dire warnings posted against eating anything you're unsure of, I also noted the line that stated "there are no old, bold mushroom pickers"!!
Although we haven't checked in with our friends this morning, both Tony and I haven't suffered any ill effects so as we thought, they were simple and yummy field mushrooms. So, armed with a little boldness, I decided to head out into our fields today to discover that we also have a few field mushrooms and below is a photo of our first crop - sadly only 3 lovely edible ones but many others that were overipe - hopefully they've left spores for others to sprout up in their place!
I also took the opportunity whilst tromping through the fields to count our walnut trees and can confirm that we have 22 in total all full of walnuts still in their green shells but it looks as though we'll have a good crop which is good news as we've almost eaten our way through the ones our neighbours picked for us last year - photo below of some of the lovely walnuts on one of the trees.
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