Prepare a dish - PEP BB foraging.sand.dish

My sister took me along on a mushroom hunt and showed me how to harvest oysters and wood ears. The rains had been good, so I filled my basket. Made a lovely dinner from the oyster mushrooms. Had well over a cup of oysters alone. Crisped them up in a pan of avocado oil. Sprinkled with salt, dehydrated garlic, and fresh thyme. Flipped, then crisped up on the other side. Fried and egg and some rye bread in the same pan, topped the bread with thin slices of Brie cheese, a generous heap of mushrooms, and the sunny side up egg. Delicious! And there were plenty of mushrooms for a second helping after I had my fill.

I seem to have neglected to post a couple of dishes I made in the autumn out of foraged mushrooms!

For this one I harvested some field mushrooms, chopped them and fried them to serve with fried tomatoes on my breakfast oatmeal. I like my oats salty/savoury rather than sweet, so this is a great breakfast for a busy day.

The mushrooms were rather large--easily one cup (see spore print on A4 paper for scale)

Foraged some slippery jack from underneath some larch trees last autumn and made half of them into hot and sour soup (and dried the other half).

Photo is of harvesting a single mushroom--they were far apart!

Recipe:
 - 1 c chopped slippery jack, minced
 - bunch of shitake mushrooms, sliced
 - couple of carrots, julienne
 - 1 choko, julienne
 - 500g tofu, cut into chunks
 - couple of onions, sauteed
 - stock
 - soy sauce
 - lots of white pepper
 - vinegar

Hey Skip team, I foraged watercress. I can't believe it was still growing, while most other things in the area were frozen dead. Maybe the nearby swamp keeps it warmer? Anyways, I stashed about 3 cups of it in my water bottle, brought it home and made a stir fry! Many of these ingredients are from my garden:
Butter,
Onion,
Carrot,
Zucchini,
Cabbage,
Mushrooms,
Garlic,
Braggs,
Avocado and Pepper,
Served with delicata squash, topped with sunflower seed butter.

I foraged giant puffball mushrooms for the first time. I peeled the skin off, diced the white flesh and sautéed the cubes in butter. They made a tasty addition to my Alfredo pasta tonight.