Edible Wild Fungi

The first in a series of guest blogs on the politics and psychology around fungi foraging in the UK, by Natalia Banach

Everything you need to know about pickling wild mushrooms: best species to use and how to prepare them; 3-2-1 pickle mix; adding wild and tame spices; troubleshooting and top tips; storage; how to serve and eat them.

Two of summer’s finest wild ingredients, partying in a jar!

This vegetarian wild mushroom paté recipe is a delicious, easy and versatile way to use the wide range of fungi that often come back from a foray, as well as those old jars of dried mushrooms lurking at the back of your store cupboard from previous autumns.

One of the UK’s most common mushrooms, honey fungus suffers from a bad reputation because it is a virulent parasite of trees, but I admire it as a remarkable and ecologically important organism that also happens to be super-abundant and delicious.