An old tree stump.

An old tree stump.

Once, when I first started going mushroom picking with my father, I couldn't understand why we walked through the forest for so long instead of starting looking for mushrooms right away once we reached the forest's edge.

My father explained that we needed to find an old clearing with lots of dead wood. That's where the chances of finding mushrooms were highest, and ultimately, it would save us time, even though we spent a fair amount of time hiking through rough terrain.

But yes, indeed, often, deep in the forest, where there were many old tree stumps, we found ourselves in the middle of a veritable mushroom Klondike. After all, there were so many mushrooms, and most of the other mushroom pickers were too lazy to venture that far into the forest.

As a result, mushrooms were frequent guests on our dinner table, marinated, fried, stewed; we froze and dried them, but somehow, there were no new variations on how to cook mushrooms, and this, too, is a bit reminiscent of an old stump that has become woody and you can't expect anything new from it.

I must admit, I've never tried making mushroom caviar like they do with zucchini, or eggplant, or liver pâté, and it's supposed to be very tasty, at least according to the chefs who've made it and whose recipes I've watched.

Perhaps there weren't too many mushrooms, although there were plenty of them, lol, but at the right moment, the idea somehow just wasn't there.

I'll have to remember this the next time mushrooms appear on the table.

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Category:	Art, Photography, digital art.
Tools:	Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300
Location:	Ukraine
Author:	Author @barski. In my publications you will see only my author's works.