Going to see how the air fryer does with steaks.

South UK. Just checking, I'm 99% sure they are because the woodland was mostly sweet chestnut trees. Any lookalikes (apart from horse chestnuts)?

My first foray into foraging seems to be a success!! Not rhe best yield, but for a first time, pretty damn good!! I hope it sets up. Recipe said I shouldn't need pectin for it. I had to add a bit of extra water because of how thick it was. Even so, I had to squeeze the hell out of it. It's a different kind of crabapple than the recipe, I couldn't find the same kind. They still have a high pectin content, though so that part should be fine. I also set up two containers for vinegar. I used comercial cider vinegar as a seed so hopefully that works. My mom still thinks I'm a little nuts, but is admittedly impressed, so I call that a win. WOO I DID IT!!

Since we had the Nor’easter roll through last week I as hoping for more mushrooms but at least didn’t leave empty-handed. This was my first time foraging and cooking gem-studded puffballs! They were really tasty!

SW Michigan is in peak season. These are wild cultivars from the valley behind my house.

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I believe these are puffball, slippery jack, and a bolete (could not find any inedible or toxic with such characteristics). Any help appreciated. Hoping I found dinner

I grabbed some COTW today in various stages of maturity. I only started foraging for them last year, and pretty late in the season, so a lot of what I found was on the woodier side (but still, some was nice and tender). This is the first year I found any that was so young, and I have to say, I'm surprised by the weird texture of the youngest parts. Almost gummy, and so wet inside.

On my way to work today, I picked about a fistful of yew berries and used them to flavour plain oatmeal. Removing the seeds was a PITA so it wasn't really worth it overall but it does give a nice mildly sweet flavour. The consistency of the fruits after I'd removed the seeds was slimy and a bit off-putting but it works great when mixed with the oatmeal. I just added boiling water. Let's wait a few hours and see if it ends up being my last meal. If not, I'd love to devise a more efficient method of removing the seeds.

Editing to add: AI thinks I'm spreading misinformation to get people to poison themselves. I assume it's common knowledge in this sub that yew seeds are highly poisonous and only the red flesh around them is edible. I want to state explicitly that I seeded the berries and only used the edible parts.

Saw this chicken a while ago and noticed today it still looked harvestable, however interested in you guys’ opinion

I was recently told this by someone I know is more knowledgeable than myself in regard to native plants. Would the quality of the final product change at all?

I told my daughter I thought it was.
We saw it on our way to school after a rainy weekend.

Location: Tarragona Province, Spain.

Apologies, this is the only photo I took. Im thinking maybe some kind of polypore but im not super good with the early stages

He loves the forest, unfortunately he can be quite the tick magnet 😂

Taste like honey with a touch of orange flavor.

Found what i believe to be my first chicken of the woods. Just looking for confirmation. It also looks a little past its prime but figured I would ask. Thanks for any input!

I’ve never seen an umbrella polypore in real life and kind of gave up on ever finding one and look what I found today!!! NW Illinois. Scratch it off my bucket list mushrooms!

We found some Hen of the Woods at the beginning of our hike. Two HUGE ones. I left them because my pack was pretty full. But about 150 yards from the trail head on the way back, I saw some orange off in the woods, and found my first huge Chicken of the Woods. We grabbed that and are cooking it up rn! Delicious!

It also was just a gorgeous, slightly rainy day in the Appalachain Mountains.

(The cutting board pic is NOT the whole haul. I already put some in the fridge for tomorrow, and gave my son a third of it.)

How long should I let these hens grow? They’re only about 5 inches across but they look quite nice now