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Archive for October 19th, 2008

Cool thing! I was running in MacDonald Forest near the old growth trailhead and I spotted some fresh young shaggy mane mushrooms popping  right up directly on the gravel road!  That is so typical for shaggy manes — they can push up through concrete and then they are the most fragile thing in the world.  Of course I didn’t have the camera along on a run!  My guys didn’t even survive the trip home in one piece — I had knotted them in a corner of my hoodie and I dropped it and they shattered into several wedges each — complete with inky black gills on the inside.  Curses!  Camera is not here,   It is #2 son’s birthday this weekend and I loaned him the camera to shoot fall foliage, so I had to snag a shot off the web.   My mycologist neighbor confirmed that they were actually shaggy manes and not something ghastly like Death Angel, (amanita)  and so I sauteed them up with garlic and onion.       With such black gills the sautee has kind of a greyish juice, (somehow not as appetizing to look at as brown) but the flavor is delicious.