We go foraging for edible wild mushrooms in the Southern Highlands NSW, Australia. And cook up a truffle mushroom pasta in the forest with our finds.
We’ve been isolating in Bowral for a few weeks during COVID 19 and, like everyone else, getting pretty bored staying inside. Our friends had shown us a secret spot hidden in Penrose State Forest where a lot of edible mushrooms grow. Eager to try our hand at foraging, having never done it before we go on the hunt for saffron milk cap mushrooms (pine mushrooms). Bright orange in colour, quite unlike the normal mushrooms you buy in the supermarket… they shouldn’t be too hard to spot, and this time of year (Autumn) is the ideal time to forage. In Australia, 20% of mushrooms are poisonous, and some of those fungi are highly toxic - indeed deadly, so we avoided touching anything that didn’t look explicitly like the saffron milk cap.
We bring a camp stove with us and cook a truffle mushroom recipe in the forest and wash it down with a glass of red wine. Not sure if it was because we were starving or because the pasta recipe was so damn good… But it was DELICIOUS! Watch to the end to see what the mushrooms tasted like + to see the epic sunset over the pine trees!
Key info:
Penrose State Forest in New South Wales is huge, 2,000 hectares, and you would need a 4wd to get to the mushroom spot we head to. Alternatively, you could also leave the car on the main bush track and walk the 200m in.
Be cautious & always refer to multiple reliable sources before consuming any wild edibles!
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