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Something old, something new

Posted on
May 20, 2012
by PinkPolkaDotFood



View from the side’s weekend theme is “something old, something new”.

Since I had some very strange new visitors to my garden lately, I decided to do a post on mushrooms.

My something old is two mushroom recipes, that I blogged about a long time ago. The first one is a mushroom soup and you can find the recipe here!

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The second one is mushrooms stuffed with mashed peas and you can find the recipe here.

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My something new is photos of strange mushrooms that were in my garden recently. We have an area under one specific tree where there are always mushrooms growing. They look like white and brown large mushrooms, similar to the brown mushrooms that can be bought at any greengrocer.

These ones are however totally different. This beautiful one was growing in my garden about a month ago:

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These ones are growing in my garden currently. It seems like they start out looking like this:

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and then change to look like this:

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and in the end they look quite awful and colour everything around them black:

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I have never seen mushrooms like these ones but find it quite intriguing. If you have any information about them please let me know.

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22 Responses

  1. Rosa May 20, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    They look like shaggy ink caps.
    believe it might be eatable.

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood June 3, 2012 at 10:27 pm

      NEEEE, ek is te bang!

      Reply
      • Rosa June 4, 2012 at 3:08 pm

        toe maar ek ook. :-)

        Reply
  2. adinparadise May 20, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    I love mushrooms, but these are the strangest ones I’ve ever see, ppd. I wouldn’t eat them though. Are you sure they aren’t toadstools. They look bewitched.;) Thanks for the lovely recipes. xxx

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood June 3, 2012 at 10:28 pm

      I would never eat them!

      Reply
  3. SidevieW May 20, 2012 at 8:59 pm

    What fascinating mushrooms you get.

    My mushroom soup is never great, yet I so love them, and I love soup. I must try yours

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood June 3, 2012 at 10:28 pm

      Did you try it?

      Reply
      • SidevieW June 3, 2012 at 10:57 pm

        Not yet, no cream

        Reply
  4. 68ghia May 20, 2012 at 10:26 pm

    The recipe’s do look delicious!
    Those wild ones are actually quite beautiful!! Looks like you have a huge amount of Googling to do ;-)

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood June 3, 2012 at 10:29 pm

      True!

      Reply
  5. Roly May 21, 2012 at 9:42 am

    mushroom soup. one of my favourites

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood June 3, 2012 at 10:29 pm

      Mushrooms – I love them!

      Reply
  6. thecompletecookbook May 21, 2012 at 11:16 am

    Oh my – what very interesting fungi you have growing in your garden. I hope somebody can shed some light on them for you. :-) Mandy

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood June 3, 2012 at 10:30 pm

      Thanks and yes somebody did!

      Reply
  7. Tandy May 21, 2012 at 11:19 am

    I am not sure why I have not been getting your blogs in my feed?! I am not sure if I would eat those mushrooms, but there is a mushroom academy in SB and I am sure they can help you with what they are :)

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood June 3, 2012 at 10:31 pm

      Yes, I know about them!! Thanks!

      Reply
  8. chilliliefde May 21, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    These are very interesting mushrooms, you are lucky to have so much interesting nature growth in your garden… Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood June 3, 2012 at 10:32 pm

      Pleasure and thanks for the visit!

      Reply
  9. Yvette May 21, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    All very intrigueing mushrooms/toadstills and are great to photograph, but I’m sure I’d stop just there…a little too mysterious for me. A great idea from SidevieW’s weekend theme and by you showing us your recipes. they look great!

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood June 3, 2012 at 10:33 pm

      Yes, I will NEVER east them!! :)

      Reply
  10. Gobetween May 23, 2012 at 6:28 pm

    The black and white one is very interesting, probably a toadstool.

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood June 3, 2012 at 10:34 pm

      Nobody could give any info on that one!

      Reply

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