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Your a bad man ! BilletHead

A tail of two pizzas, Grilled, Pizza one. Chanterelle, onion, and some really thin prosciutto. Not much of it either. Some garlic and herbs. Asiago cheese. No sauce. Just starting the grilling process, Ready to pull, Pizza two. Chanterelle, Hygrophorus Milky and Chestnut Bolete mushrooms, Onion and prosciutto. Garlic and herbs, some jarred sauce and Asiago cheese. Just thrown on the grill, Just pulled off. Got more hickory smoke from wood on the second pie, Plated up one of each, Yessiree, good stuff right here. Can I get a DANG? BilletHead's are foundering on fungus! BilletHead

For sure on the bags but serious mushroomers use a basket so he spreads spoors through the basket weave when traipsing around. Guess we are getting serious enough we should get a couple of baskets. Now the funny looks will get more serious , BilletHead

That and the folks you do see look at you like you as nutty as a pet coon for picking "other types of mushrooms". Well maybe we are a bit touched , BilletHead

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Yeppers and if we have adequate moisture there will be fungus to be found clear into November. Have found oysters really late and had fresh ones on thanksgiving. Love it, Billethead

Yes I thought they were a common golden shiner. Catch them all the time on small flies in ponds. Big ones are special like you Wrench BilletHead

Got to do something with all these mushrooms . Spaghetti with summer vegetables, chanterelles and native pecans, Adding the cherry tomatoes, More grilling as the grill master keeps hydrated, In they come to be mixed with the pasta, sautéed chanterelles and toasted pecans and various fresh herbs, This is some serious good eats folks and I will go ahead and say this for Ness, DANG!, BilletHead ate this plate full and a bit more . We did a double batch so there will be another meal and then vacuum seal for another day, BilletHead had a second long neck today.

Finally got the Mrs. BilletHead in the woods this morning for a mushroom foray, Going to start with a picture from yesterday. Took a little road trip yesterday to a local Conservation area. Found some stuff there last year but not so much this year. Did find some dead man's fingers. First time seeing these. Really it is kind of creepy seeing these fingers seeming to reach out of the ground out of the leaf mulch, Now to this morning. I have been picking a few select chanterelles when I go by a patch. Mostly waiting for Pat to go with me for them. Today they were fair game and the center of attention, Darned orb weavers waiting for you to get them in your face. Glad the morning sun peeking into the woods showed us this one, Pretty neat cluster here. When I cut off the base there were eight stems, A couple piles from todays haul. Had more Hygrophorus milky and Chestnut boletes too. A couple big boletes to Id also, There will be a post of what we made with some of these in the cooking forum later, BilletHead still loves the fungus among us and shopping in the woods, BilletHead

BilletHead better cough up a report, Tomatoes are thick on most plants. Fighting the yellow leaf with dark patches on most plants too. I still am blaming it on the ultra wet weather. Had close to five inches in the last couple of weeks. Even in raised beds kind of wet in my opinion. I just clip of the bad leaves ever few days but the tomatoes are set well so it is what it is. Just dealing with it! Our first cherry tomatoes will be picked tomorrow. Planted some stevia plants. Super sweet, why? Just cuz I wanted to . Wanting to try to muddle some in some tea for a sugarless sweet tea version. Maybe try that tomorrow? Blackberries need to be picked daily now. Have not froze any just putting a bug giant handful in my homemade granola cereal daily, Then the straight neck squash is providing, Herbs so many herbs and no problem there:) . Sadly the pepper crop sucks big time. Again blame it on the wet. Not sure what will come of it yet. Really disappointing. Great flower display here in BilletHeadVille. The yard bee hive bees are not using them but the bumblebees and butterflies and hummingbirds are happy. Frigging Japanese beetles are reeking havoc on some things. I do a walk twice or more a day capturing what I can reach and put them in a container. Forty or more beetles daily. Shake them up scrambling their brains. Dump them in the little garden pond for the fish. Really good entertainment for me. The green sunfish and bass go ape crap crazy on them . BilletHead

I have had the same problem in off colored water. Once found many carp working a small area next to shore. Tried about everything. They worked the surface and I think they were just sucking scum off the surface. Someone needs to tie a scum fly. BilletHead

Blinders may help. Pat says it was the least we had to shield our eyes from the day we floated. BilletHead

Yep and smallish sized although I had a grass carp chase a size two minnow once but turn off at the last second. I fooled him I switched to a small bugger and took him on the follow up cast! Haven't you got flowers to plant or a motor to work on? A single wheatie strawberry flavored is the answer, BilletHead

Good luck! HA

Well Ronnie and John you cold do as some on here and chum to your hearts content, throw something on your fly hook and sit and wait OR as I think you are in the sport be along the lines of finding fish and sight fishing, make a plan, a stalk and the execution of that plan. That is what worked for me. Small damsels and dragonfly nymph flies. Actually my best has been small sparse buggars. Size 12 and 14. Black's, brown's, olive's. Any crawfish colors. Best to find one feeding fish. The more he is feeding the better he will respond. Groups of fish can be tough. Too many eyes and fish senses working in unison . BilletHead

Nice trip you two, Yep Chief likes to meet all forms of riff raff at that station/micky dees for trips. What's up with Chief's long sleeved shirt? When we tagged along with him he could hardly wait to take the shirt off and show man boobs . BilletHead

You are going to like it friend. The ones I got to take were amazing. Fickle the swimming turds are. Good luck, BilletHead

Great score from the FFF. We love the Fungus among us! BilletHead

Been finding some wild mushrooms. Have that post in the mushroom and other wild edibles thread. Did a chicken of the woods enchiladas. Another keeper recipe from BilletHeadVille, BilletHead

Yowza, Chicken of the woods enchiladas ' BilletHead

Back into the woods for more looking and some picking. Have some chicken of the woods enchiladas ready to come out of the oven. Spied some corals peeking out, More Hygrophorus milky to be picked, A no picker! Emetic Russula Wood ears, Todays haul, Chestnut bolete, Hygrophorus Milky, Had to pick the Chanterelles as I stumbled upon them too, BilletHead

Barter time!

When Mrs. BilletHead got home from work I sliced and sautéed the hedgehogs in a bit of butter. Tried them on crackers. HOT DANG! Pretty tasty. Another one off the bucket list. John have you tried to sauté any of the minnows you caught off your bucket list? . BilletHead

Out of Strawberry jam ! ha. I like the bartering system , BilletHead

We cooked this yesterday for the forth, Grilled burgers and fries. Did a knock off of Freddie's fry sauce. Turned out great. Longneck to wash it all down :), BilletHead had himself a mountain of fries!