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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Competition

Oh noes! There is mayoral competition for mah porcini patch!

Mrs Spat, why are you not out there guarding them?
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18 comments:

  1. Big Bad Bald BastardMay 17, 2015 at 4:29 PM

    I'm so jealous... though the garlic mustard does have its charms, even though it's hated.

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  2. rhwombatMay 17, 2015 at 10:06 PM

    I blame declining morels.

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  3. Smut ClydeMay 18, 2015 at 1:39 AM

    There are reports of morelity in NZ but I've never seen any.

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  4. TrevorMay 18, 2015 at 2:14 AM

    My goodness me, those with the greenish spongy bits instead of gills are indeed cèpes! What variety? (Cèpes des pins not so tasty as the cep de bourgogne)

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  5. Smut ClydeMay 18, 2015 at 3:47 AM

    Hard to be sure about variety. They're growing under Scots pine, which leads me to suspect Boletus pinophilus i.e. Cèpes des pins. OTOH they're often quite pale across the top of the cap, which sounds more like B. edulis.
    Websites say that B. edulis is the introduced variety in NZ, but then they go on to use this as a broad term encompassing any number of subspecies.

    Recipes are welcome.

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  6. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©May 18, 2015 at 4:32 AM

    Maybe you could design some guardian spiders in the Evolvomat?
    ~

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  7. JPMay 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM

    One of the many things I miss about the PNW is the boletes. You can find them in Michigan, but you are unlikely to go home with buckets and buckets of them.

    Recipes are welcome.

    It occurs to me that perhaps the only recipe I have used when it comes to mushrooms is to cook them in butter and garlic, and then eat them with pretty much anything. It has sufficed, I suppose.

    That is a very pretty cat, BTW.

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  8. Smut ClydeMay 18, 2015 at 1:17 PM

    That is no cat, that is 7 kg of vet bill wearing a fur coat.

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  9. TrevorMay 18, 2015 at 3:24 PM

    Pale on top? Seems odd, "proper" ones should be brown. Whatever. Recipes? Wot JP said, fry with garlic and butter. And parsley, or chives are better. You may get more protein than you bargained for: around here, I discovered to my horror that up in the pinède the cèpes are used as high-rise housing by any number of insects. Bastards.

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  10. ckc (not kc)May 18, 2015 at 3:30 PM

    ...butter and garlic is less a recipe than a lifestyle

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  11. TrevorMay 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM

    Rosé is a lifestyle. Butter and garlic are just accessories.

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  12. Smut ClydeMay 18, 2015 at 5:46 PM

    I am allowed to use them as pizza topping, so long as neither they nor the slices of black pudding stray over onto the Frau Doktorin's half of the pizza.

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  13. JPMay 18, 2015 at 5:52 PM

    That is no cat, that is 7 kg of vet bill wearing a fur coat.

    That is also a very big cat.

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  14. Smut ClydeMay 18, 2015 at 8:15 PM

    I'll just leave this here:
    http://eusa-riddled.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/do-not-bore-me-with-your-problems-puny.html

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  15. OBSMay 19, 2015 at 11:09 AM

    Is the competition mostly from lots of badgers and the occasional "ooh, a snake"?

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  16. rhwombatMay 19, 2015 at 4:50 PM

    OBS: Not in Nzld. Those econiches are occupied by Keas and/or politicians.

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  17. Smut ClydeMay 19, 2015 at 5:26 PM

    We have no requirement for those odoriferous badgers.

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  18. rhwombatMay 20, 2015 at 12:16 AM

    ...particularly the ones with M. tuberculosis - not unless they are accompanied by a qualified Cricetomys gambianus.

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