Some saffron milk-caps, roasted under the grill (Lactarius deliciosus...and for sure, they live up to their latin binomial species epithet 'deliciosus'), Lovely crisp, crunchy toothsome texture, with a mild yet very good flavour. Some of the tastiest wild fungi offerings I have ever had the good fortune to find. Quite a scarce species here in the UK, saffron milk-caps are not at all common, but I happened to go hiking in a forest I haven't been to since childhood (where I unknowingly sat on a red ant nest, which decided to swarm into my kecks, and come to life, biting and stinging like fury later on during the car ride home, laying into my tender young arse cheeks and nadgers with a vengeance)
This time though, I made sure not to expose my nuts to any stinging insects, and instead had one hell of a stroke of luck, that being my finding a good place to harvest L.deliciosus, a very, very popular mushroom in france, spain, catalonia, cyprus, poland and russia, as well as some other eastern european countries, brought back almost 3kg of saffron milkies, got a great big plateful in my fridge at the moment, some awaiting being dried or frozen, I think I'll salt and pickle some as is done in russia and poland with them, of course I'll eat some more fresh, just roasted over an open flame, I MAY try including some with my usual fare of shiitake, oyster and if I can get any in the shops, some dried morels, I just adore morels, but they are hard to find dried, and really rather a scarce and lucky find wild, fresh, but I do fancy trying the saffron milk-caps in one of my fly agaric and peppery boletus seasoned beef steak and shiitake chillies, I think I'll go back to one of my local woods to see if there are any remaining sulfur polypores (Polyporus sulfureus), that is, if I haven't already eaten it all, as chicken of the woods is one of my favourites. Would be nice to have some of that, sliced up and fried in batter made from eggy breadcrumbs and sea salt, with a little pepper sort of like an omelette, but a little different with the breadcrumbs turning it into a proper batter. Absolutely delish. Would be just the treat to serve as a side-dish with the chilli. Got plenty fly agaric already this season, from a nearby canal bank thats absolutely festooned with fly agaric this year. It does need to be prepared correctly, with a long, low heat to render the mushroom nontoxic but once thats done it makes for both a good intoxicant, and a fantastic medicinal mushroom, sleep aid, and in smaller quantities, its one of my number one favourite spices for cooking. Turns an average meat dish into something really special and mouthwateringly tasty, acting something like nature's MSG. I never do a chilli, steak or curry without crumbling a few pinches of fly agaric over my steak or adding a tablespoon or two worth into my stewpot.
Tomorrow once I get paid, whilst I go to town to score, methinks I'm going to pick up some fresh egg noodles, shiitake, oyster mushroom, some scotch bonnet chilli peppers for an added fiery kick, and do a stir-fry with some kidney beans and beef steak, and go to chinatown, grab some sake and whilst I forget what they are called, those chinese rice balls filled with sweet bean paste for pudding, and add some of my saffron milk caps, fried in a little extra virgin olive oil and sea salt, dressed with a bit of olive oil and maybe lemon, tossed in with the rest of my fried shiitake and oyster mushrooms, some enokitake if I can get any and served as one big spicy stirfry, spiced up with the scotch bonnet chillies, some powdered peppery boletus and some ground up powdered fly agaric, as I have much to spare, several big tubs full of dried A.muscaria caps, all in prime perfect condition, all heat-treated and detoxified, ready to spice up my cooking

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Can't wait to taste my stirfry, and see how it turns out. The Lactarius I simply roasted, plain and simply as they are, over the grill flame, with a little pinch of sea salt, were really quite scrumptious; looking forward to experimenting with different ways to serve them.