Comments on: What is Good to Eat in November http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november Cooking - Photography & More Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:47:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-631 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:34:03 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-631 Cid, You can buy trees which have been injected with truffle spores, they take around ten years to produce anything worth bothering with and cost a fortune. I shall not be bothering! Miles Cid,
You can buy trees which have been injected with truffle spores, they take around ten years to produce anything worth bothering with and cost a fortune.
I shall not be bothering!
Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-629 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:17:20 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-629 Elsie, Hold on to that delightful thought for the festive season ... I would have to replace them daily! Cid p.s. I'm now bored with the usual robin, I shall be wanting a tin snipe which I understand are about as common as the real thing :) Elsie,

Hold on to that delightful thought for the festive season … I would have to replace them daily!

Cid

p.s. I’m now bored with the usual robin, I shall be wanting a tin snipe which I understand are about as common as the real thing :)

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-628 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:04:49 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-628 Miles, I had no idea truffle trees were available but you can bet I've already got one and have been sat on a fortune for years unknowingly! Anyway I've ordered one from Waitrose online.... they said they'd strap it to the van :) Cid Miles,

I had no idea truffle trees were available but you can bet I’ve already got one and have been sat on a fortune for years unknowingly! Anyway I’ve ordered one from Waitrose online…. they said they’d strap it to the van :)

Cid

]]> by: Elsie Nean http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-627 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:58:03 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-627 Cid, I am visualizing your Christmas Tree full of truffles - whatever the sort:) Surprised to hear of the need for fungi, a bit like underestimating the need for bees and our dependance on them. Cid,
I am visualizing your Christmas Tree full of truffles - whatever the sort:)
Surprised to hear of the need for fungi, a bit like underestimating the need for bees and our dependance on them.

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-623 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:31:32 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-623 Cid, You need to get yourself a truffle tree-they're all the rage apparently. Miles Cid,
You need to get yourself a truffle tree-they’re all the rage apparently.
Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-620 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:38:36 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-620 Miles, Yes, I couldn't believe it myself but there they were .... alas but a flash in the pan, this year nothing. I was fascinated to see a cauliflower fungus growing on a tree on a tv programme recently. That's what we need to find, something the size of a football. Interesting things fungus, I heard that if it weren't for them we'd all die. The planet needs them to break down organic matter .... a profound thought. Cid Miles,

Yes, I couldn’t believe it myself but there they were …. alas but a flash in the pan, this year nothing.

I was fascinated to see a cauliflower fungus growing on a tree on a tv programme recently. That’s what we need to find, something the size of a football. Interesting things fungus, I heard that if it weren’t for them we’d all die. The planet needs them to break down organic matter …. a profound thought.

Cid

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-619 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:27:18 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-619 Elsie, A double wammy eh, sounds like we'll strike gold! I calculate that by the time we put our tagines on to cook, it should allow us at least an hour to 'thin-out' Miles orchard and countless polytunnels. Wouldn't put it past him to set traps for the unsuspecting so we must be vigilant .... night goggles and shopping trolleys (mine's been fitted with a silencer!) at the ready :) Cid p.s. bet he's got a freezer full of snipe... Elsie,

A double wammy eh, sounds like we’ll strike gold! I calculate that by the time we put our tagines on to cook, it should allow us at least an hour to ‘thin-out’ Miles orchard and countless polytunnels. Wouldn’t put it past him to set traps for the unsuspecting so we must be vigilant …. night goggles and shopping trolleys (mine’s been fitted with a silencer!) at the ready :)

Cid

p.s. bet he’s got a freezer full of snipe…

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-618 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:07:47 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-618 Cid, Morels? Bloody hell!!! Miles Cid,
Morels? Bloody hell!!!
Miles

]]> by: Elsie Nean http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-617 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:29:41 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-617 Cid, My fork and spade are ready and shining. However, if you end up with a bog garden you might get some snipe in! Cid,
My fork and spade are ready and shining.
However, if you end up with a bog garden you might get some snipe in!

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-612 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:28:18 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-is-good-to-eat-in-november#comment-612 Elsie, Strange you should mention the wood chippings ... a couple of years back a new consignment of chippings were laid here and a short time afterwards a number of morels sprang up. Sadly despite further mulching, no more fungi. For a moment there I thought I would be able to supply Miles fine eating establishment with expensive wild mushrooms ... damn another plot foiled again :) What we need Elsie is to 'borrow' a spade full of Miles own chippings and must be prepared to meet with some opposition so come armed.... Cid Elsie,

Strange you should mention the wood chippings … a couple of years back a new consignment of chippings were laid here and a short time afterwards a number of morels sprang up. Sadly despite further mulching, no more fungi. For a moment there I thought I would be able to supply Miles fine eating establishment with expensive wild mushrooms … damn another plot foiled again :)

What we need Elsie is to ‘borrow’ a spade full of Miles own chippings and must be prepared to meet with some opposition so come armed….

Cid

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