Ready for mushroom season?

Also a time for foodies while going glamping in the wild

In a few weeks our meadows and forests will start to be plenty of mushrooms.

While going glamping in the wild it is a good and healthy entertainment going to collect mushrooms.

One of the most exquisite ones is the scientifically known as Coprinus Comatus by its Latin name, but  this one is not easy to remember by non initiated people, so some other more common names have risen and this mushroom is also known as a shaggy ink cap, lawyer's wig, or shaggy mane.

When you find some of them you shouldn’t let them there for longer or shouldn’t have them for long at kitchen without eating them. You should try to eat them on the collecting day unless you are preparing them canned, in such a case you should dry them before. But if you let your just
collected Coprinus for a day or two, as well as if you come to the next day to pick them up, you’ll be surprised by their fast transformation in a black ink. Yes, you read correctly, ink! In fact, nazis during World War II mixed the Comatus ink with normal ink in order avoid being fooled by enemies with counterfeits of German documents. If they found Coprinus’ spores in the document while examining the ink under the microscope then they could be sure that it was a real one and not a forged document.


So be ready to eat your lawyer’s wigs and enjoy an excellent dish, but if you are not an expert or you are not sure enough, be careful! some mushrooms can be dangerous because of the poison they contain. The best advice is: ONLY eat the mushroom you are confident enough on it, either because you have the required knowledge, or because it is served in a reputed restaurant or sold in a store you can trust.