Our last camping trip this year in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland resulted in a fairly decent harvest. There was a large variety of both edible and inedible species. I also came across a mushroom that I had never seen before.

There was no shortage of brown bay boletes, parasol mushrooms, saffron milk caps, butter mushrooms. Generally, a fairly large cross-section of species, but due to the abundance, we chose the best species from our point of view.

There was a lot of honey fungus, which I love, although there were already a lot of faded fruiting bodies that were not suitable for consumption. And of course there was no shortage of noble boletes, of which we counted as many as 18.

Most of the noble boletes went to drying, but young specimens enriched the tagliatelle I have already written about. Honey fungus, on the other hand, was frozen after blanching and will enrich Sunday broth one winter day.

For the first time in my life I had the opportunity to come across a mushroom called Aniseed Scleroderma. It is a tree mushroom, with gills, resembling a trumpet in shape.

It is an edible mushroom but it doesn't taste very good. However, it has an incredible aniseed smell, so intense that when I smelled the mushroom, I felt the aniseed smell for a good few minutes.

Enjoy😉