 Which, where am I going mate? Oh, I've bodged it. Welcome to another lockdown video. This whole video is going to be done within 10 minutes, 10 minutes a man. We're in a national lockdown if anyone's watching this in the future And I've just come out to see what I can find. Gonna forage some mushrooms I've just come across this lovely flush of shanks, velvet shanks Off this old, it looks like an elder. Wonderful specimens these You see that? And when they get older the the stems the stems go quite woody and They have like a velvety touch to it once it gets once they turn Dark and woody and that's where they get the name from the velvet shank You can't be Mistaken for much else this time of year might be repeating content a little bit from what I've just found now But who knows I could go it's like fishing in it. I could go out and I could find Who knows what I'm gonna find that's the beauty of it But if I don't find anything else then we're gonna be stuck with ease again But we'll learn a little bit more about them and you'll become a little bit more familiar with them And there'll be something that you can forage yourselves in the future. So And it's locked down mate times are hard. Can't just skin out into mountains. Can I? These ones all appear not a bad start two minutes into my daily walk and I'm I already scored some dinner. Just crack on Sogy it's soaking. Oh here we are look. There's some older ones here We'll have them. We'll have them. It's not want not getting that covered barn it back in back on homeless footballer Yeah, these are older. These are These are a bit more mature so they lose that sort of Bell shape and the The caps flatten out as they get older unmistakably velvets and you can see Bollocks drop one You see how the stem get darker with age and then they have taken on there a Velvety texture. I'll have these in tupperware box Awesome Looks stunning, doesn't it colors? Beautiful colors on them Excellent, let's go home here on wood a decent crop of wood ears. They're like exploding wood ears. I think we'll take some of these Not to eat tonight. I don't think but We'll dry a few out near the fire and just keep them for stocks and soups and whatnot But I'll just take some choice specimens. I'm calling El there and I'll just get the big ones because they don't have to dry down to nothing wonderful Onward Welcome to the shelter build episode 75. I've just put some sticks up here like this I've lashed them together with dental floss up here biodegradable dental floss and if you as you can see As you can see by miss smile Very comfortable And in an apocalypse In an apocalypse, this would be just fine for you for you and your family and your friends But thanks for tuning in guys Stay tuned Stay tuned to witness the progress. I'm going to probably put a door on it next week. Hey, hope your bag's stuck, but There you go. And it also comes with this anti bag Uh device which can take your bag off for you. So you pay extra for that in shots But I'll teach you how to make that on a separate video. I don't know farm track And they're not even fields yet used for arable farming. I don't even know They keep livestock on there just must be like flood plains or whatever I believe but There's dead trees everywhere and there's bits of scrubland. I'm just getting tucked in And seeing what I can find Lovely Come on focusing issues There are orange turkey tails I've got plenty at home. So I don't need them Don't need them A couple of wood ears loads of velvet shanks I'm happy with it. I've got a new tent and I want to set that up in the daylight to have a look at it Might even keep it garden. Who knows? Let's get back to the fungerium and have a closer look at these shrooms Welcome to the fungerium. We didn't half get some specimens Okay, these this is just half of them And they are clean Look how clean they are some absolutely stunning stunning specimens and I had an old bit of slate that's cut out into a lover and I thought I'd get them in decreasing sizes And see if I could make a little a little bit like me logo, but with spore prints. So I've set that up and we'll come back to that later and see And see why I go on with it and if it works then I might just Seal it on there and that'll be a permanent fixture The he whoa, these are we've got some I feel like I feel like we do this a lot these days look at mushrooms in here in fungerium, but It's the world we're living. We're going to mix it up a little bit as well ah, so I just got some Whoppers mate some absolute whooping specimens and I know I'm repeating myself from the last video, but Not everybody will have watched the last video Some people might be joining this video and it might be the first time they've watched one of my videos. So Hello Hello mate new mates Lower your expectations And we'll get on just fine as I've said before mate, but But if you are new to the channel or you're new to just mushroom picking then let's just talk about some deadly Alternatives some deadly look-alikes actually there's one deadly look-alike and one that'll make you not so clever um But it's that macabre fascination that we all have with well. I have with um poisonous mushrooms. It's But it's born out of respect I do respect the mushroom, but I also fear it It's like it's a luring. It's like why how I I'm intrigued by sharks. I love sharks, but I'm also scared of them And it's the same with the poisonous mushrooms. I love them, but I'm scared of them and there's a respect there um, and This does have a deadly look-alike which has got the same toxins in it As the infamous death cap not in as high a dose, but it It does have that poison in it Which will uh, you'll eat it and then a few days later, you'll you'll think you've got a way with it. You'll get terribly ill And then you'll it'll it'll It'll be as if you've got better. You'll think you're out the other end and then boom it hits you Shots down your organs Good night, sweetheart Control alt delete I'll I'll put some images up now of the funeral bell, which is it's deadly look-alike and it is uh, it is very poisonous, sir You know just that many if you if you thought that they were velvet shanks, but they were funeral bells, you know that many Not a good way to go. Well, these are The funeral bell has a small sort of membranous skirt on it, which the velvet shanks don't have But it grows in the same sort of environment It grows a lot on conifer stumps and it can be found on deciduous tree stumps as well Even just in wood chips and in open grassland the time of year is more Fair weather the velvet shank is hardcore The velvet I mean we've had we've had some some decent frosts We've had some pretty decent snowfall as well And these can survive being completely frozen Like they'll just stay in stasis And then they'll thaw out and they're still they're still good to eat and they'll still Um, they'll still produce their spores as well another indicator Of the velvet shanks, which can differentiate it between from from the um, oh look at that little one Oh You can Look at it. Oh look at it. I'll eat that Um, is that these the velvet shanks leave a white spar print as we'll have a look. Um, we'll have a look at that Well, I'm keen to have a look at that actually in a minute funeral bells. They leave like a snuff brown Brownish sort of a spar print. So if you're not sure Do a spar print of one of your mushrooms generally mushrooms will grow together. So if you if you've got these On a tree and then just above you've got some more mushrooms You it's a pretty safe bet. They're going to be the same the same mushroom get an older speed an older specimen here There we are. He's a nice old one The critters have had him a little bit, but you can see there He gets darker towards the middle And as I say the darker stems you can see there perfect example there of the It's a beautiful contrasting colors. I think they've the Of the dark velvety stem and then the the white Creamy gills and the orange top. It's a lovely combination of colors that for me Really works well Lawrence well and bowing over here. It works well if you just the fudge way of it all It also looked like the sulfur tuft. I'll put some images on screen now of that so you can Familiarize yourself with it and again with the spar print from the sulfur tuft It's sort of a purpley brownie color Once you've got all your spoils if you what you want to be doing is scraping them all together into a pile That's that's how you'll get a better indicator of the color of it if you just scrape them all together So let's have a little look Yeah Okay All right Oh, that's a lovely one That worked beautifully Excellent Not so good If we clean it up a little bit You know it's made it a nice little Clean it up a bit and then Seal it All right little man. That's pretty cool. A lot of people had Enjoyed the book recommendations. So I do I recommend this one as well. It's it's not mushrooms. It's it's By john riot who did who does the river cottage mushroom book who I was on about before Beautifully written his personality comes through It's a really good book and um, yeah, it's a forages calendar. Leave a link below A quality book and that's got Just throughout the seasons and throughout the year what you can forage not just mushrooms. It's just it's all sorts of stuff Wonderful book wonderful book. I recommend that if you're getting into foraging Or if you've been into it for a long time, you don't have it Get into it. Let's cook up these velvet shanks. We'll do something a little bit different with them Join me Not a bad little tea cauliflower and coconut curry with rice with a little bit of a Like a vegan yogurt dip with paprika in it. It's like a bar g Roti style it's got onion ginger garlic Velvet shanks and then it's got all the spices in there With a real simple batter. I didn't have any rice flour or anything. I've just used what I've got in the cupboards You want me that is delicious, right? I'll better go and have me tea. I don't know I'm not going to just enjoy me tea with this in my face. I'm not so I'll go and enjoy this. I'll have one more mouthful for you The trick is not to not to have your oil too hot because it'll go hard on the outside You know not cook in the middle and not have it too soft because the mushrooms and All the ingredients will just soak up the oil and become stodgy. So you have to get that perfect sort of medium heat so chuck some it in To begin with and then once that starts to sort of float about and turn golden you're good to go I don't know timings and and amounts. I'm afraid I'll try and do Hopefully I've tried to do my best of it when I actually made it by putting the stuff on the screen, but When you've been cooking for a long time, you don't really measure stuff out You just you just go off a feeling and that's what I did and it's so it's worked It's worked really well actually if you're new to foraging. Please Just go steady do plenty of research if you you know read some books I've put some books in the in the amazon shop below if you want to check them out do or just Google it Google it because it's not worth dying over me. It might be tasty, but it ain't that tasty or is it? Um, so yeah, please forage with caution I'm going to say every video that I forage for mushrooms. I'm going to put a little safety warning in there because I don't want it on my conscience either if you If you eat the wrong mushrooms and then you know tap out The big tap out the everlasting blink. I'm planning another long distance hike similar to the coast to coast And I'm just putting together a new bag and not necessarily a new bag but choosing Stuff that I've already got and getting some new gear in that I'll let you have a look at So there's going to be some kit comparisons and kit reviews. I'll let you have a look at my new tent That'll all be coming up. So if that's something you're interested in consider subscribing And stay safe. I'll see you all soon or of why I'm gonna sit me. I'm gonna sit back firing off my ti. I'll see you. See you later mate. See you Actually better turn this off. Love you. Bye