Posted in Oregon, mushrooms, tagged elevation, finding mushrooms, forest maps, forest roads, GPS, logging roads, mushroom habitat, mycellium, mycorrihzal relationship, picking mushrooms, road markers, terrain on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is part two in a series on finding edible mushrooms.
On an absolutely beautiful day recently, my mushroom buddy, Allen, and I went out ’shrooming. It was such a great day, that it wouldn’ta mattered if we found nothing, but as it was, we each got about a third of a five gallon bucket full [...]
Posted in Oregon, mushrooms, tagged compass, emergency kit, lost in the woods, map, mushroom safety, wild mushrooms on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think the case can be made that, year in, year out, the Pacific Northwest is the absolute treasure trove of wild mushrooms in the U.S. Having said that, I also believe that unless a mushroom hunter has some knowledge of how, when, and where to look, that mushroom hunter may very well disagree. In [...]
Posted in Food, Roasting, tagged easy roast chicken, French Laundry, roast chicken, simple roast chicken, Thomas Keller on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I owe Thomas Keller – you know, of The French Laundry fame – an apology. Oh I’m sure he doesn’t give a damn one way or the other, but I feel I just owe the guy a public apology. So, here goes.
Some time ago, my neighbor friend, Allen, lent me his copy of The French Laundry [...]
Posted in Never, Never List, tagged lubricant, non-lubricant, WD-40 on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to start a new Category – I’ll call it, “Never …”. I’m going to make this list of things that I have discovered – the hard way – are really not good to do. Yeah, everyone has such a list, but I want to formalize mine, sort of as a catharsis, but also [...]
