{"id":1095,"date":"2009-12-24T21:30:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T07:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2010-01-20T20:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T06:20:04","slug":"mushrooms-mount-tam-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"Mushrooms. Mount Tam. Rain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went mushroom hunting. I dare to post this now, because I am now and official member of the FFSC who describe themselves as &#8220;an informal, friendly, fun-loving group of fungophiles dedicated to the knowledge, pursuit and appreciation of wild mushrooms.&#8221; They eat them too, as well as we do (just the edible ones, after we very carefully ID them)&#8230; anyway, that might be something you did not really know about us. We have repeatedly told Leilani not to tell people here about the mushroom eating &#8211; in Austria it is normal, but here people often think we are totally out of our mind&#8230; We could probably still get in troubles because I now know we&#8217;d need a permit to pick the mushrooms&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The stars of the adventure, photographed by Leilani.<br \/>\nAndy &#8211; not yet wet.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-andy.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-andy.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sonja soaked, but too far away to see.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-sonja.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-sonja.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leilani &#8211; dry for unknown reasons &#8211; probably shortly after we changed her clothes (we had 3 sets of clothes for her)<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-l.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-l.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ainalaa, who got scratched a few days earlier<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-la-ainalaa.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-la-ainalaa.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The real stars. We found so many mushrooms, it was incredible. We photographed a few to ID at home (but still have no positive ID on any)<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-collybia-lbm.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-collybia-lbm.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-m1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-m1.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-m2.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-m2.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a russella which is called Speitaeubling in German. It is  not tasty unlike most russellas.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-speitaubling.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-speitaubling.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-fogtrees.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-fogtrees.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leilani forgot to zoom. I am showing off some really nice mushrooms here.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-la-no-zoom.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-la-no-zoom.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She also forgot to have mushrooms in the picture. Actually that day it must have been hard to find a bit of forest ground that big without any mushrooms.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-la-no-shroom.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-la-no-shroom.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later in the day the weather got better.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-lake.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-lake.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doe, a deer, a female deer&#8230; oh wait, the does don&#8217;t have antlers&#8230; must have been a striped-legged Mount-Tam Leilanidear<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-deer.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-deer.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, I think everything above I would have posted anyway&#8230; but not that. We ate mushrooms for 2 days. We deep-fried boletes (the first home-deep fry in about 3 years, done with ghee and butter because we had no cooking oil that could get hot enough.) We froze about 6 mushroom dishes, and I worked 4 hours cleaning. We tossed about 20 pounds of wormy and too soggy mushrooms in the compost.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091122-mt-work.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091122-mt-work.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went mushroom hunting. 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