Giant mushroom we found: The crinkly mother hen!
Yesterday my boyfriend and I went collecting mushrooms in a forest nearby Berlin. After six hours of not finding a single one and thinking about going home, suddenly this beautiful "Krause Glucke" appeared on our way through the bush. The meaning of the German name can be translated as: "crinkly mother hen", in English it is called cauliflower fungus. I'm a real newbie in picking my food in nature for it is not such a common thing to do for young people in Germany. A lot of parents are afraid of collecting the "wrong" plants, thinking they might be poisonous or psychoactive.
It's hard to find this one and especially on a day without any other it was a pleasant surprise of nature. The Krause Glucke has no psychedelic effects but it tastes marvellous! Here is a picture how it looked on our plates:
We filled five plates with pasta and this one mushroom. At first we cut the mushroom into small pieces and cleaned them. This is very important, because lots of small insects love to life inside this big brain.
After cutting and cleaning we fried it in a pan with onion, oil, salt, pepper and a mix of local garden herbs. The final step was a good shot of white wine to cook the meal until it steemed away. :)
Besides the mushroom we found beechnuts, cranberries, rose hips and nettles.
We roasted the beechnuts and put them on our salad. The cranberries and rose hips we cooked with some sugar and cinnamon, vanilla, cardamon and glove to a sweet-sour sauce which we used hot for our vegan vanilla ice-cream. The nettle is a great healing plant and gives an amazingly tasty and powerful tea.
Thank you for reading :)
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The common name for it in Francony is "Fette Henne", which translates into "fat chicken". It tastes also great if you cut it into 1 cm slices and treat theses slices with egg and breadcrumbs, just like a "Wiener Schnitzel".
Sounds delicious :) We will go mushrooming as soon as possible. If we are lucky and find another one we'll definitely try that.
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It was an amazing day in the nature! And such a good meal- holy shit, I still get goosebumps when I think of that amazing taste.
On the way to one of our nature-adventure-trips :)
Still not expecting the wild pigs running to us some hours later :p
Haha, and both of us hurrying to hide in the tent :D
oink oink oink, give me your food!
Wow, really big mushroom and your dish looks delicious!
It was the second mushroom I ever found :)
I'm sure it tastes great... but it sure does look weird. It makes my skin crawl a little, like I'm looking at a huge spider's nest.
Nevertheless... Bon apetit!
Cheers, we digested it already :)
The taste was a very nice intense mushroom taste and the look also reminds us of a sponge.
I watched a TV show about a husband and wife team that hunt for mushrooms for a living. I could not believe the prices they get for some of them!
We rather eat them ourselfes :D
yum yum mushroom...I like eating mushrooms. Nice and unique looking jewelry piece on your nose.
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It's amazing how big some mushrooms can get! Nice work in being persistent in your foraging. Do you have to get any permits for foraging on your public lands? Here in the US Pacific Northwest, there are so much wild foraging for the commercial market, that many places have started requiring permits.