Fun mixed bag today!

[Herky2002]

Clockwise from upper left:

King bolete (we think -- past prime for sure)

Chanterelles

Club coral

Indigo Milkies

HOTW

Lobsters

[Stick in Mud]

Where are the milkies?

[Herky2002]

Where are the milkies?

On the far right at the bottom. Not the best pic of them.

[Stick in Mud]

Do they have gills? I might be mis-seeing it, but they look like boletes with some blue staining.

Tough to tell, but I'm not sure that's a king, either.

[Herky2002]

It's a bad picture, they definitely had gills. I checked in two books and they were a dead-wringer for Indigo Milkies. We didn't eat them after reading they aren't very tasty. We didn't eat the Club Corals either.

I wasn't sure that was a King either, but it definitely was a bolete and it didn't stain blue, so we tried a few pieces. It was pretty tasty. The chanterelles were outstanding; the lobsters were good but not great.

We made HOTW soup last night. It was delicious!

[Stick in Mud]

Hmmm....I like the idea of HOTW soup. Mind sharing a basic recipe?

[Herky2002]

We used the soup recipe in the back of "Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-kitchen Guide," by David W. Fischer, Alan E. Bessette.

I can type in the recipe if you don't have the book. The recipe is a bit complicated but well worth the effort. The only change we added was to finish it by adding a couple of splashes of cooking sherry at the end.

[Stick in Mud]

I don't have the book, but I'll do my best to find a similar one online.

Do you like the book? I've been thinking about getting a wild edibles cookbook for some time now.

[Herky2002]

Yes, I highly recommend that book. The mushroom ids are very useful, and all the recipes I've tried have been great.

[JP Z]

I've been looking at that book Herky, the other one I'm thinking about instead is

Edible Mushrooms: Safe to Pick, Good to Eat by Barbro Forsberg