What's for dinner?

The National cuisine week has ended and I am so excited to try some new recipes.

Last night I decided to try one of them, the mushrooms and potato one. Originally it was published on Tanya's blog and she used wild mushrooms for her dish. I did not have Chanterelles so I used the regular button mushrooms you can buy at any grocery store.

 The result was delicious! My family was fed, happy with their dinner and it was nice to add a new touch to the way we are cooking.

 I will definitely try more of the published recipes! 

The homegrown mushrooms project

Well, we purchased a log of shiitake mushrooms online. 

What a fun project! You don't have to do a lot, just follow the simple instructions, pour some water on the log about 3 times a day and they will grow. 

 The most delicious mushrooms ever!

Mushrooms picking

Since everyone around was talking about mushroom picking lately I had this thought sticking in my head. It was growing and getting bigger until I was obsessed with an idea to go wild mushrooms picking :)We jumped in a car last Saturday and went up north to Flagstaff. We called my friend on the way and she joined us, together with her mother and three kids.Two hours of driving and we are in a mushrooms paradise.
Except... how can you tell? which one is good and which one in poisonous? Choices, choices :) I know some edible mushrooms but I guess I became more careful with age, so each mushroom we picked was sniffed, bitten by my friend or her mother to check for bitterness and either approved or disapproved.
It was fun! we spent about 3 hours running between trees. For the first couple of hours we had about 4 of red headed Russula mushrooms but then we moved to another spot and that's where the fun began! We got 2 buckets of lovely wonderful smelling mushrooms and feel like we can find them on our own now !Well, the sad part begins at home. I am drowning in doubts. Should we eat it? or not? They looked great and our other friend said they are edible (she threw away some from the pile, anyway) and book said they are... but there is so many almost the same looking mushrooms which are not good for you!Anyway, I spent the whole day yesterday cleaning, washing, cutting, boiling and freezing mushrooms. I've decided to take a small bite from each pile every day to see how I will feel... Do you think, it will work?
Doubts, doubts... Maybe, I will better just take a walk in a woods next time :)