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Back to wild boar-country (Sweden) and mushroom hunting. Again and again, 2025 is such a great mushroom year 🍄‍🟫

#mushroom
#sopp
#svamp
#sweden
#sverige
#foraging
#sanke
#vgl
#visnum
#kantarell
#blåridderhatt
#piggsopp
#frostvokssopp
When the porcini (steinsopp) is as fresh as this I eat it raw. Just some sliced mushroom over my salad for lunch.

Btw, if I had sold all the boletus I have found this year, I would be a wealthy woman indeed.

#mushroom
#porcini
#boletus
#steinsopp
#karljohan
#svamp
#sopp
#food
#sanke
#foraging
#mat
#sopptember2025
Another dish with mushroom. I found some early bird Craterellus tubaeformis (traktkantarell), and made a soup a la Lotta Ekberg from her book on edible mushrooms.
Butter! Cream! Mushroom! What not to like 🍄‍🟫

#Craterellustubaeformis
#traktis
#traktkantarell
#sopp
#svamp
#mushroom
#fungifriday
#foodfriday
#soup
#mat
#foraging
#sanke
#sverige
#sweden
#sopptember2025
And they have arrived in abundance, Craterellus tubaeformis (traktkantarell). It is getting wetter, colder and darker, everything it likes.

#mushroom
#traktkantarell
#traktis
#sopp
#Svamp
#Craterellustubaeformis
#sverige
#sweden
#sopptember2025
#skaraborg
#vgl
#sanke
#foraging
#mat
#food
Out cycling I spot Macrolepiota procera (stor parasollsopp) everywhere! They are easily spotted but so are all the other mushies, like all the porcini. So much food 🥘

I think it is at least five years since we have had such a great mushroom year here in the belt south-Norway-Sweden. I have great hopes for finding Craterellus cornucopioides (svart trumpetsopp) this autumn. What I do miss is Hydnum rufescens (piggsopp) - where is it?!

#mushroommonday
#sopp
#svamp
#fungi
#foraging
#sanke
#food
#mat
#sverige
#sweden
#sopptember2025
#skaraborg
#vgl
It looks like dried fish, but is dried porcini (steinsopp). It is a delicious snack, tasting somewhat like potato chips but with a little more body, and of course less salty.
I dried it in my oven overnight at 60 degrees centigrade, and wish I had made more.

#cepes
#porcini
#boletus
#sopp
#mushroom
#food
#mat
#sanke
#foraging
#ymsen
#skaraborg
#vgl
#sverige
#sweden
#sopptember2025
Yesterday I probably found Leccinum variicolor (svartskrubb), but I also looked into L. melaneum (sotskrubb), a mushroom I have never met before. It grew with L. niveum (myrskrubb) and many other kinds of mushrooms.
I personally don’t eat Leccinum, even though it is considered a good mushroom, there are so many others to eat. Esp. this year.

#sopptember2025
#sopp
#mushroom
#svamp
#fungi
#ymsen
#skaraborg
#sweden
#sverige
#skrubb
#foraging
#sanke