foraging from the wild

we had another great weekend at the cottage. and we were able to expand on my goal to make use of nature and of all the fruits that she offers when we are at the cottage in the summer. so far i have been able to harvest a number of things including raspberries, blackberries and the occasional blueberry. it took a visitor to the cottage to introduce something a bit more daring...

for the first time in a long time, we ate mushrooms from the wild. i am no stranger to eating mushrooms from the wild, i have eaten morels and puffballs before, but this was a new one for me. a family friend went out for a walk and came back with a huge basket of chanterelles. now normally i am all about eating things from the wild, but as is common with mushrooms, you want to be 100% positive that you are not eating anything poisonous. luckily we now have smartphone technology and we were able to check the id on the internet before we fried up this delicious treat.


to top it off, we were also able to eat some delicious fresh fish caught at the dock of our cottage with the mushrooms. we have fishing rods at the cottage but don't often make use of them. let me tell you, we will be doing so in the future. it was some delicious bass....