As
I missed the skiing holiday in March due to busy times at work, I took a short
vacation on the island the first week of May. So far, it has been
wonderful, spring is here! White wood anemone is in blossom everywhere where
you look at.
We were driving around the island with navigator on small roads I haven’t seen before. The road took us to a beautiful mansion, Sjölax, where we admired their well-attended outside cowshed.
The mansion dates back to 16th century. There are beautiful old oak trees around the house. We have sometimes ordered some fire wood from the farmer.
I had planned to work in the garden to move some rose bushes and turn a
slope overgrown with weeds to a flower bed. I bought plants from Kemiö Agrimarket
and planted some stonecrop on the slope, because it’s sunny and dry, and those are the only flowers that survive there.
As it has recently been raining and the temperature was above 10 degrees, it should be the season for spring mushrooms, morel mushrooms, Gyromitra esculenta. I have never found any, but decided to go in the woods behind our house to check. I had a plastic bag and surgeon’s gloves with me. It was amazing, there they were! I found enough for one meal.
Morel is a toxic mushroom, potentially fatal if eaten raw, but it is
one of the best mushrooms and a delicacy in Finland. It requires correct
preparation. I parboiled them twice in plenty of water.
Tomorrow we’ll make a creamy stew. Hopefully the poison has boiled away!
We were driving around the island with navigator on small roads I haven’t seen before. The road took us to a beautiful mansion, Sjölax, where we admired their well-attended outside cowshed.
The mansion dates back to 16th century. There are beautiful old oak trees around the house. We have sometimes ordered some fire wood from the farmer.
I had planned to work in the garden to move some rose bushes and turn a
slope overgrown with weeds to a flower bed. I bought plants from Kemiö Agrimarket
and planted some stonecrop on the slope, because it’s sunny and dry, and those are the only flowers that survive there.As it has recently been raining and the temperature was above 10 degrees, it should be the season for spring mushrooms, morel mushrooms, Gyromitra esculenta. I have never found any, but decided to go in the woods behind our house to check. I had a plastic bag and surgeon’s gloves with me. It was amazing, there they were! I found enough for one meal.
Morel is a toxic mushroom, potentially fatal if eaten raw, but it is
one of the best mushrooms and a delicacy in Finland. It requires correct
preparation. I parboiled them twice in plenty of water. Tomorrow we’ll make a creamy stew. Hopefully the poison has boiled away!
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