Nice day of forging

[AlaskanGuy]

Well, we made out pretty good today...

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Russula's, gypsies, hedghog's orange milkcaps, and a sink full of yellow foot chantrels...

Also got 4 folgers buckets of high bush cranberrys...

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Not a a bad day of foraging.... :)

[TXGunNut]

Wow, looks like fun. Those cranberries don't look like any I've ever seen in stores, what do you do with them?

[starmac]

Jelly........

[quilbilly]

We are headed up to the Cascades to do the same on Thursday hoping for copious huckleberries and some non-bug infested king boletes (porcini mushrooms). Grouse season is open too so the 45/.410 Contender rides along. Too early for russulas here and only a few chanterelles so far.

[rockshooter]

quilbilly! We went into Hells Canyon last weekend and picked apples, 2 varieties of plums, blackberries- there is fruit all along the river that is just going to waste. Supposed to be some peaches and apricots still in the old homesteads but we had plenty to make jam and applesauce.
Rockshooter

[AlaskanGuy]

Might make some cranberry jelly, but we also make cranberry ketchup....

here is the link to the way to do it from a female forger buddy from Wrangell....

http://www.alaskafloatsmyboat.com/beachcombing/2012/12/14/highbush-cranberry-ketchup

AG

[quilbilly]

This has been the best blackberry season in my memory around here. We just finished off the peaches on my backyard tree today (yes, peaches grow on my side of the Olympic Peninsula) and it too was the best harvest ever. I do love this time of year!!

[starmac]

Thanks for the ketchup link.

What is russulas and chanterelles in english???

[AlaskanGuy]

Different types of yummy mushrooms that grow around here and SE

[starmac]

No such thing as a yummy mushroom, and I'm sure glad my wife feels the same. lol

[blademasterii]

I was excited untill I figured out you were missing an A in your title. :D But free organic eats are cool too.

[Bzcraig]

No such thing as a yummy mushroom, and I'm sure glad my wife feels the same. lol

Ain't that the truth!!!

[MaryB]

Morels are the king of mushrooms, only had a few this year though. Weather was just wrong.

[Taylor]

Ain't that the truth!!!

mushrooms are good eat'n

[Taylor]

I was excited untill I figured out you were missing an A in your title. :D But free organic eats are cool too.

me to,thought he made something cool.my forge hasn't been fired up all summer.I do need to make a ladle too.

[OBIII]

Nothing better than some fresh morels, cleaned, sliced, and fried in real butter, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Tastes like steak.
I unfortunately, have no luck finding them around here. Other people do, but not me.

OB

[tomme boy]

I was hoping to see a knife or axe:(

[AlaskanGuy]

Forging for goodies, not forging with steel... Forging goodies tastes way better then playing with steel...lol

but for all you metal workers, here is want I am gunna build when I get to SE...

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AG

[starmac]

It would be some kind of cool, watchiing you weld that up with a solar powered welder. lol

[Buck Neck It]

There is lots of real welding equipment where he is going. Loggers can break anything.

[Plate plinker]

What is that furnace thing?

[starmac]

Souped up power smelter. lol

[waynem34]

those berries and mushrooms don't stand a chance against that thing.Please those mushrooms would look good on my pizza tonight.Nice haul.Some mushrooms are toxic right?I love mushrooms but dont know enough to pick them wild.

[AlaskanGuy]

Well wayne, get yourself a good mushroom book for your area and see what is growing in your area...... Only way to learn is do your homework, and get out there and climb some hills.... Just like casting boolits... First you read, then you try... Now go get em.... :)

AG

[rockshooter]

Find someone gullible and expendable - teenage neighbor comes to mind- to try them first. I had one morel in my back yard last year, none this year.
Loren

[MaryB]

Morels are pretty easy to ID, look at the pics of false morels and you will easily see the differences. I had a ribeye steak with a morel garlic butter sauce last spring. Friends that were over said the sauce was better than the steak!

[bangerjim]

Forging for goodies, not forging with steel... Forging goodies tastes way better then playing with steel...lol

but for all you metal workers, here is want I am gunna build when I get to SE...

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I read this hoping for a good thread on running a forge. But this is about foraging (searching) for food. Still, I like to eat!!!!!!!!

banger

[AlaskanGuy]

Yea, what can I say, I forgot the A in Foraging in the title.. Can I just blame it on my Ipad????

[wallenba]

I found some gum on the sidewalk yesterday....

Gotta get away from here for a while.

[bangerjim]

Yea, what can I say, I forgot the A in Foraging in the title.. Can I just blame it on my Ipad????

I do all the time!

banger

[dakotashooter2]

Yea, what can I say, I forgot the A in Foraging in the title.. Can I just blame it on my Ipad????


Absolutely..... Technology is supposed to be advanced enough to know what we are thinking...................

Actually you probably did get it right but the auto correct (designed by a generation who have no idea what foraging is) thought it was a misspelling and "corrected" it.................. Of course I'm supprised it even recognized the lost art of "forging"...................

[AlaskanGuy]

You got that right Dakota....