Last night I exchanged several tweets with @TheSupercargo aka John. He had posted wonderful photos of his weekend harvesting mushrooms.
He mentioned it had taken him 11/2hrs of back breaking work to harvest and then home to prepare the mushrooms for the coming months.
His last tweet to me inspired my blog today "@minibtweet It was beautiful and so silent in the forest. Thick moss on the ground and the smell of autumn everywhere. And the mushrooms!!"
Find @TheSupercargo to view his mushroom harvest photos
Autumn: I don't have mushrooms to post but have corn on the cobs Freshly harvested by two lovely people, my duty to blanch ready for the freezer. The juice that flowed was amazing, dad enjoyed the broken bits raw! Fresh corn, sweet juice harvested.
'First the blade,
then the ear,
after that the full corn in the ear'
Mark 4:28
Call back my harvest basket is full, a feast for your eyes this autumn
i love corn too . will have to come back to read previous posts.
ReplyDeletesoon i shall intersperse my blog with this type of post, a longer write up on a capture ;-)
write on Bev ...
Hi Beverley!
ReplyDeleteThat's beautiful - the picture and the text. Glad to have been an inspiration.
I should add though that the 1½ hours gathering was as nothing to the 4 hours sitting in the kitchen picking over the mushrooms to prepare them for frying and the freezer. The mushrooms in question were 'funnel' chanterelles which have a hollow stem opening from the cap. Each one has to be cut open and cleaned out. Some are empty, but others have pine needles in them. Others have residents ... spiders mostly. My wife and I came up with a slogan: "It was your home, now it's our dinner." Not something for vegetarians, I fear.
Thank you Del and John very encouraging and delightful to have both your comments. @Del I hope to continue with little sparks of inspiration. Your blog has my mind thinking six words! Looking forward to your future posts and tweets, always inspiring :)
ReplyDelete@John thank you for posting the full story. Just remembering our colour chat now :) the thought of those spiders fills me with fear!I love nature but this side of it I have to admit my fears. I am delighted to have these details on my blog thank you for taking time to stop and comment.
Very delightful article and nice feast of eye of this corn - we call it 'Bhutta' in Bangla.
ReplyDeleteThank you Asim, it is lovely to add different cultural names to the corn, adding knowledge from round the world. Always learning from you, thank you for visiting and commenting today Beverley
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