UP-TO-DATE ON FORAYS IN ASTURIAS, LEON AND BURGOS

We finished our Morel hunting on the 6th of may,it's been really good this year and i'm well stocked up in the kitchen with dried morchella esculentas and fresh mushroom powder.

By the 8th of may we went down to Leon province and we've already got 3 lots of Boletus Pinicola,so far,touch wood,bug-free! This is the problem with may,june,july Boletus,sometimes a carpet of aestivalis and very few edible.

I popped down to see P for a few days in Burgos,there, the activity is more with St George's Mushrooms and they were on sale at 36 euro a kilo. On a trip out in the country we saw a few people with baskets in holm-oaks after some kind of  Boletus, possibly a Leccinum or  Boletus Aereus. We were visiting friends and only had time (and good luck) to find some lovely Agrocybe Aegerita (Cylindracea),locally called Poplar Mushroom. We've already eaten them in an oxtail stew-great!.

I do hope there's someone out there interested in what we get up to, if so,let me know and i'll keep you up to date over the next few months. By the way,you can see photos in the main Spanish section.

Kenneth