What to do with a glut of Cèpes - Porcini mushrooms

[james]

Autumn is the time to keep your eyes down when out walking, if you find the right spots, shady, damp areas often under Oak trees, you can bag a haul of these wonderful mushrooms which would otherwise cost your a fortune!

If you only find a couple, go and make an omelette! If you find loads, you need to store them, drying is the best tactic. You can do that in the oven or with a food dehydrator like this one.

https://www.amazon.fr/Déshydrateur-thermostat-réglable-réglables-automatique/dp/B0012US5Q8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1475137935&sr=1-5&keywords=deshydrateur&linkCode=ll1&tag=survfrannetw-21&linkId=ba54464b13c63b5c405a9f2c22170f53

Cêpes in the Forest

With the exceptionally warm weather recently and lack of humidity, the politically correct mushroom hunting season has yet to start. It normally coincides with the opening of the hunting season in France and that started this weekend. Once the children are back to school and the temperatures start to fall again, add a little humidity and some moonlight and you have the perfect recipe for the French favourite mushroom to spore. The Cêpe de Bordeaux (Bolet Edulis), Edible mushroom: So how do you find these little fellows? They prefer to lurk around at the base of oak and chestnut trees and they literally spring up overnight in the late August / September / beginning October period, following any rain showers. They are quite difficult to spot as their cap is exactly the same colour as the leaves that have fallen around them. Once you do start finding the mushrooms, you get the second problem and that is correctly identifying them as…

[Hilary_Jane_Dunk]

Thanks James,
I am looking forward to receiving some via my voisines…I tried them for the first time last year and made a mushroom omlette with them…Absolutely delicious and naturally creamy…
It’s a pity one can’t buy some sort of an electronic prong to test them to ensure they are the right ones. I think I would be too nervous just going by a picture…

Are you interested in feedback for this new site design ?

[james]

You can poke them and they bruise/turn bluish. That might be helpful?!

Yes feedback please but over here

http://www.survivefrance.com/c/sfn-faq/forum-support

[james]

I was quite please with this little haul, they cost a fortune in the shops!