SUMMER IS A-COMING-IN.

I thought i´d  get down to bring you up to date on life up here in rainy Asturias,beginning with a very useful Xmas present from my children. They,ve tried my dehydrated mushrooms over  he years  with their favourite being the ground-up boletus flour.

So i now have a Rommelsbacher food dehydrator,model  DA750 and experiments are the order of the day.I´ve dried morels and St George´s and they seem to be o k but now i´m drying stawberries, cherries and i´m now trying figs.

The only problem i have is it´s a bit too big,if you´re starting out,buy a smaller model.
Spring has been really positive on foraging,in March we began with morels,pine boletus in May as well as russulas (virescens and vesca), believe it,bug-free and now timidly getting chanterelles due to dry spells and hot weather.

Therefore in the mushrooming world,Summer will be holiday time except for get-togethers over a few wines or a bottle of local cyder chatting about plans for Autumn.
Even so,i´ve made wild cherry brandy,raspberry and strawberry vinegar and raspberry liqueur.

Hopefully this weekend i´ll pick the first gooseberries and i´m going to try for the first time to make goosegog chutney.

I wish you all a very FRUITFUL Summer.

 

Kenneth