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The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Who wants to see my big mushroom?
Boletus edulis, sprouting up under the pine trees on the golf course, five minutes walk away.
I tried to pose Mrs Spat sitting beside them to make them look smaller, but she went away over the fence to break things next door.
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Would it be very wrong to carve the large lopsided one into the shape of a liver and eat it with fava beans?
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Cats and mushrooms are natural enemies, or so I have read...
ReplyDeleteYou know, Laura would probably book a flight to the antipodes just to stomp on those 'shrooms.
ReplyDeleteSO JEALOUS. I only get oysters because I threw the spawn out myself. Also spread morel and wine cap but no joy.
ReplyDeleteLaura is ELIMINATIONIST.
ReplyDeleteThose look excellent.
ReplyDeleteTigris, try plug spawn, I've had excellent results with oysters and shitakes;
http://imgur.com/b06D8U7
Those look excellent.
ReplyDeleteTigris, try plug spawn, I've had good results with both oysters and shitakes.
http://imgur.com/b06D8U7
I guess it's no surprise that Gavin is also a fungus hunter.
ReplyDeleteSo where's the mush?
ReplyDeleteDid I really type plug spawn here? Ruh roh.
ReplyDeleteEl M, I was planing to do plugs for chicken of the woods this year, but turns out we're going to be moving.
ReplyDeleteI am a Siamese and I endorse these psychotropic mushrooms. You are in my power, puny humans!
ReplyDeleteWould it be very wrong to carve the large lopsided one into the shape of a liver and eat it with fava beans?
ReplyDeleteYes.
My, what large mushrooms you have, kitty!
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