I got a present!

[Dippytrout]

It's all supposed to be confidential so no details but today Bb's working locally and came home with a lovely present - a great big bag of dried local wild mushrooms
They're collected by this woman http://gorsemeadow.co.uk/about-mrs-tee/
And the house next door gave him a box of freshly-laid eggs

He spent so long talking/being talked at that he only got half his work done and didn't get home for lunch till 2.30
He's gone back out now to try and do the rest

What do you mean ''dried local wild mushrooms'' here that means something completely different, as in ''magic'' Either way EnJOY

DT

[Kaz]

[Diflower]

Lol Dippy
She is the only person legally allowed to harvest wild mushrooms in the New Forest for commercial use, so she gets as many as possible And dries the extra.
She's been supplying Michel Roux Jnr and all sorts of others for nearly 40 years, quite well-known around these parts.
There was a big court case a few years ago when the Forest authorities tried to get her stopped, but couldn't come up with a sensible argument against it, so in the end said it had to be done by licence - and she's got the only one.

Given that her husband was apparently something to do with Jimi Hendrix who knows where it all started

[Diflower]

Those mushrooms btw are absolutely gorgeous! I've had dried mushrooms before, but probably a lot older I guess.
The smell from these was quite intoxicating as they cooked.
We had chicken breasts, some dried (soaked) and some fresh mushrooms, some of the soaking liquor, sherry added, then a splash of vermouth as it was a bit rich, a sprig of fresh thyme, creme fraiche. Bloody lovely

[tonicha]

I had leftovers again

[meriad]

Di, that dish sounds amazing; although I'm not sure I'd be more pleased with the wild mushrooms or the 100% free range eggs... having both would be my idea of heaven; I just love 'shrooms and eggs.

I am well and truly very jealous!

[Dippytrout]

Lol Dippy
She is the only person legally allowed to harvest wild mushrooms in the New Forest for commercial use, so she gets as many as possible And dries the extra.
She's been supplying Michel Roux Jnr and all sorts of others for nearly 40 years, quite well-known around these parts.
There was a big court case a few years ago when the Forest authorities tried to get her stopped, but couldn't come up with a sensible argument against it, so in the end said it had to be done by licence - and she's got the only one.

Given that her husband was apparently something to do with Jimi Hendrix who knows where it all started

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we have just checked out Jimmy Hendrix - Purple Haze on ''YOU TUBE'' btw and will go with magic

DT

[Kaz]

Oooh I love a bit of Hendrix, one of my best school friends played his stuff non stop - she's a very respectable teacher, head of a maths department thee days

Di that sounds quite superb

[Diflower]

Jimi Hendrix was in the first live concert I ever saw - aged 11

Meriad the eggs are huge! - feathers and all
Two destined I think for the bestest eggy sarnies for lunch tomorrow
The people (oh blimey, confidentiality! - poor Bb said earlier, I shouldn't really have told you) - are about to go away for a month; their son and dil will be there but busy, and they have quite a lot of chickens, she suddenly realised it was a good idea to offload a few

Last year he interviewed this lovely Indian lady and said how good whatever she was cooking smelled - and came home with a litre pot of the most gorgeous aubergine curry

[JoM]

Oooh how lovely!! Mushrooms are one of my favourite things to eat

LOL at the Jimi Hendrix connection, it does make you wonder doesn't it