I like fly agaric. I use it sometimes for psychotropic effects at time, for cooking, fresh, for eating as a table item as opposed to spicing meat and pot noodles up (especially nice with a splash of extra soy sauce and some worcestershire sauce in a chicken and mushroom one, once that disgusting corn is picked out.)
And its top notch as a medicinal...errr...herb???' as well.
Best thing to do with it is to use it to innure one to cold. It works brilliantly. Granted it won't physically protect you from hypothermia, but whilst on it, I've gone and walked a few miles in a howling blizard, bare chested and wearing only clothing below the waist. Didn't feel the slightest thing.
Tell you something though, a generous spoonful or two thrown into a chilli con carne, or a pinch mixed with a bit of salt on top of some thick, juicy grilled or fried sausages and I guarantee you will both start drooling, and take up hunting every year for as many carpophores as you can find.
Got bags and tupperware tubs filled to bursting with the dried mushrooms in the kitchen. Best way to consume it for an intoxicant or medicinally is to make a tea out of it, sweetened with some sugar, its weird, sweet but tastes like...kinda..concentrated, distilled pure essence of meat with meat sauce and extra meatyness.
It does however fill the kitchen with an INTENSE scent of sweetened, honey-ish umami.
Think akin to the result of leaving a jar full of chloroacetone out, only instead of tears and howling its MEAAAAT
quite impossible to miss or ignore.
Don't use A.pantherina despite the similar biochemical profile. There are two excitatory aminoacid toxins in there, stizolobic and stizolobinic acid. These are either AMPA, KAR or both orthosteric agonists and they are of truly shocking, astonishing potency. So much so I did not even believe such a thing possible in a natural product that has not been specially optimized.