Our village in France has a warranted reputation for its wild mushrooms. The most prized are the Cêpes (Bolitus Edulis), as well as Girolles (Cantharellus Cibarius).
A year without both these mushrooms would be a sad one indeed. A Cêpe or Girolle omelet for lunch in Summer is almost obligatory, and both are totally delicious.
Lady M, being a Watercolour painter, has always painted mushrooms, and her Mycological Series has been a popular seller. These below are just a couple that we've recently saved from the loft.
Now that we only spend three months of the year in France, the very first thing I do is to go to the woods, where in early June there is usually a good crop of Girolles.
A Girolle omelet on day1 is the best way to welcome ourselves home.
A proper artist has done a proper job. Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteShe does lovely work, especially of this type.
DeleteLady M is a Lady with talent. Her mushrooms are wonderful as I'm sure is your omelette
ReplyDeleteWe make a good team!
DeleteLovely paintings.
ReplyDeleteShe has real talent.
DeleteWonderful paintings. Fungi is so fascinating, how splendid to anticipate the foraging and finding treasure, then the pleasure of cooking and eating such delicious bounty. Bon appetit! Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteWhen I first moved to France 50 years ago, I was amazed, and thrilled, to find that it was a renowned mushroom spot. I've never looked back.
DeleteWell, I have been visiting "MM" for a long while but I never knew that Lady Magnon was a skilled water-colourist. She clearly has a "good eye" for detail.
ReplyDeleteYes, I don't talk about her work too often as it makes mine look 2nd class.
DeleteThose mushrooms look good enough to eat! Beautiful pictures.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure we did eat them. I find them, she paints them, then I cook them.
DeleteBeautiful paintings. Lady M is very talented.
ReplyDeleteShe is; you're right.
DeleteThey are wonderful. She has quite the eye and a lot of talent.
ReplyDeleteAnd a lot of patience.
DeleteThose are museum quality mushrooms done in watercolor. Will you frame and hang them?
ReplyDeleteIn not to very long you'll be harvesting mushrooms in France.
They are now framed. Yes, I certainly hope we'll be eating more. My son recently gave me a tin of Cepes, so a couple of omelets are on the menu.
DeleteThe painting is quite remarkable. I was very pleased with myself to find a patch of lovely looking mushrooms in The Kentish woodland near Emmet's garden and was immediately imagining an omelette or such like-
ReplyDeletethe problem was they began on the way home as they stank the whole car out to the point That I had to abandoned my culinary ambitions .. later research revealed They are they were Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus) - and renowned for their foul-smelling, sticky spore masses, or gleba, borne on the Bellend.. haf I known this I might have saved some considerable trouble
Stinkhorns are not only quite rare, but as you say; they stink. I do find them occasionally in France.
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