Buying fresh

We went to Grand Frais in Brive again this morning and bought so many fresh veggies it is a good job we have a friend staying this weekend. I may have to invite some others round to help us eat them all up as well.

In the past we have been unlucky in our search for wild mushrooms in the woods behind us. Either there aren't any (unlikely), or the locals are getting up there at the crack of dawn (more likely) and beating us to it! So I bought a few girolles and pleurettes and trompets de mort this morning. I didn't believe the price they were selling loose girolles and pleurottes at, so I just put a handful of each in a bag and took them to the cash desk. I bought the trompets de mort in a plastic box. I think they will be very nice fried in butter with maybe a little sherry vinegar to dress them. I was most surprised when we got home to check the bill and see that the girolles were only 33 cents, and the pleurottes 39! If only I had believed them I would have bought more and made a lovely wild mushroom soup instead (or as well). Anyway, there are plenty for three of us to have a good mixed mushroom dish this weekend and we will enjoy them.

I know I should go out mushrooming early in the morning when the kitten wakes me so early, but I prefer to sit quietly watching the sun come up and writing - well, this actually.