I am taking a class on fungi. True, it's actually a little early for the fall season, but it is actually the last summer class offered for the year. Today we went on our first mushroom hunting expedition. And had some interesting luck. We talked about edibles, not quite edibles, poisonous, and deadly mushrooms. All good categories to have. It was a lot of fun! The 11 of us found about 100 mushrooms of about 10 different types. And we had some for dinner! One of the guys (well, and older gentleman who is a mushroom hobbyist) cooked some of the mushrooms we found (they were ok) and did this amazing dish with shitakes in a cream sauce. It was wonderful.
I am learning a lot about mushroom terminology (the cap of the mushroom is called the pileus, for instance) and reproduction. Soon we will be learning all sorts of things. I am really looking forward to tomorrow. And I hope all of you head to the grocery store for shitakes! Enjoy.
