sky

Just had this for my dinner
It was really nice and Im still alive too

Jude J

What is it sky? Looks like a kind of mushroom. Looks delicious, its made me hungry!
and how is your house coming on?

sky

Yes it's a fungi and I can find loads of them locally ... free food and very tasty too

House plans are still in with the council, test holes for the septic have been carried out and engineers plans and that's in with the council too and main power are putting in the power, water, and telephone lines on monday.
The bricks have been choosen and the roof, window and door colours and I have to arrange to choose kitchen ware next week so it's all going along fine so far

SarahB

Gosh, havnt had puffball since I was a child!! They used to grow on the school football field. I used to enjoy it. I'm still mad on mushrooms now and if I remember right they tasted a bit like mushroom?

Jude J

Cool I supose you have to know what you are looking for though, some stuff like that can be a bit dodgy to eat cant it? Mind you, I seem to have an iron stomach, on holiday we ate loads of prawns and when I asked hubs why he wasn't having any he whispered, 'they've been sittting in a plastic bag in the fridge for 4 days now, I dont think they're edible!' We were at his sisters apartment and he thinks her food habits are questionable, as in, how long she will keep things after sell by date. Happy to see me eat them though!

exciting stuff on the house. I would love to do that one day, choose everything right from scratch. I bet you cant wait to get into it!

Maz

Too cool sky! I've not had wild fungi since I lived in France. There, you pick them with gloves on, pop them in a bag, and take them to your local pharmacy, and they can tell you if they're edible or not.

That's great about your house! We got our house new when someone else's mortgage fell through. They had *nearly* everything we wanted. There's a distinct lack of centre-of-ceiling lighting in the US, though, really bizarre!

sky

Yes the kiwi built houses seem to favour downlights more than central ceiling roses now. We have a choice so are having downlights only in the kitchen and bathroom areas

SirEglamore

Puff balls ........ slice like a loaf of bread, fry it and top with bacon and egg.

now have to clear the drool off the keyboard

sky

Now that sounds like a really good idea, have egg and bacon in so just have to go find more puffballs now

SarahB

Mum used to slice it up just like mushroom and we had it with fried bacon and egg. Ive not seen a puffball in many years now.

sky

Theres a field here locally and there's always loads in it, they get huge too!

sky

Next time I'm out I'll take some photos

SarahB

OK cheers. I also remember some tiny little ones too... you could stamp on them and make them kinda pop.

sky

Haven't seen the little ones but there are alsorts of diff varieties of mushrooms growing in the same field so if I see them I'll take a photo of them too

kiwi_child

Be careful. Some forms of wild fungi can be dangerous. Anyone considering picking them should make themselves familiar with the local species. There should be books or a govt website with info available.