Lots of walking on my last day in Den Haag. A visit to the Peace Palace. Then, to Vegane Glorie for an excellent brunch, and then to Scheveningen and along the beach and through the dunes until the sun began to set. At which point, we hopped on buses to reach the Hook of Holland port, and boarded a ferry back to the UK.
Finally home! Evening walk to show D around, with big moon. The next morning checked on sunrise, good, as I left it.
Walk and foraging near Wemyss; blackening waxcap, puffballs, shaggy pholiota.
Walk to Buckhaven along the coastal path to see some of my all time favourite rocks. D and Max went in the sea.
This month was too busy to keep on top of posting, so I've lumped them into one as best I can.
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Shaggy parasols and puffballs from Dysart; loads of delicious shaggy inkcaps from Livingston.
Creamy lemon bars at the Community Kitchen. Used - finally - the last of the mincemeat to make the crust.
Wednesday: Brunch at Kangus, Community Kitchen (not pictured) and then a drive to Burntisland for chips and then Livingston (also not pictured).
Thursday: Road trip to Loch Lomond, where D went in the sea and I wandered the woods looking for mushrooms.
D left. Sunrise. B&G arrived. A visit with Maud. An afternoon in KDY. Dinner at Koku Shi with B&G&C.
A score of hedgehog fungi near Loch Lomond. And some other randos, which I did take home and ID but didn't record and now can't remember, alas.
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A minor chanterelle emergency in nearby woodlands. But this is the beginning - more are definitely coming. Some very nice birch boletes, and a load of big amethyst decievers as well. Plus one of my fave very weird mushrooms aesthetically, the white saddle - in exactly the same spot I found them last year. On the fence about whether to eat these. There does not seem to be consensus.
A drive to Auchtermuchty for lunch at the Old Barn, and then a walk in the rain to Maspie Den with B&G&C.
Shaggy inkcaps in Ravenscraig Park. IDing some from the last forage - a new bolete, and a jellybaby!
ODS Co-op came to KDY! A productive week of coworking and channelling Co-op money into all of my favourite local businesses. And some braw sunrises and evening wandering.
Old tshirt is developing holes. I sliced it up to use in a rag rug.
CHANTERELLE EMERGENCY. 3.5kg.
Also loads of other fun things. Weird bobbly guys. Orange grisette (yum! first amanita I've actually eaten, after excessive amounts of double checking. Sweet and mushroomy), tiniest russula, some way past it ceps, my first common inkcaps, and even some oysters. This is all essentially on my doorstep.
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The November Sea is coming early.
Also, brunch in Roots & Seeds with B&G.
Some next level beach sunrises. I can't believe that every day we have the opportunity to witness this incredible cosmic spectacle, and most people choose to sleep through it. After two years, it's still leaving me breathless.
A bag of shaggy inkcaps just on the way into town. 1kg of chanterelles in the dryer at G&S (turned into 160g). Very unusual boletes near a carpark.. under birch, but with very scaly and chunky stems, so 99% sure not birch boletes.
A good haul of beautiful purple wood blewits from Ravenscraig Park.
Various wild mushrooms on toast, pizza and omelette. Also many apple crumbles.
Donated bag of figs at the Community Kitchen of course meant... homemade fig rolls! But completely improv in the end as we had essentially none of the correct ingredients. Apparently they turned out fine, but I had to leave before they finished baking.
Really enjoying these pink flowers that are blooming from a wildflower mix. Tons of things have self seeded in my fishing crates - a mix of the pink wallflowers and rocket/mustard greens, I think. A tiny romanesco yield. Another beautiful artichoke.
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Inordinate quantities of rocket, and the tomatoes are still coming. So we cooked a whole load up with celery and onion and made it into a kind of vaguely unpleasant rocket passata. It's alright when mixed with other stuff though!
OH: Where's Guy Fawkes when we need him now, eh?
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Hallowe'en themed baking at the Community Kitchen, so I made spooky ghost cupcakes (coconut and cranberry), oozing blood (raspberry) chocolate peanut butter cups, and a mutant spider army (fruit/nut/cocoa energy balls).
A few more wood blewits from Ravenscraig.
Nice grey mushrooms that I eventually concluded to be clouded agaric/funnel (I even did a spore print) but didn't get confidence in time to eat them. There were a lot though. And a new spot for massive pile of great condition wood blewits. Loads of fun things coming up in the cemetery; mostly waxcaps and friends, but also shaggy parasols and blushing agaricus.
Wood blewit, agaricus and puffball stroganoff.
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The final sunrise of October.
