Mushroom gourmandise in Rõuge
Photos: Arne Ader
Vladi interviewed by Toivo Tuberik
Translation: Liis
Giant puffball (Langermannia gigantea).
On Saturday at 11 am the mushroom preserve competition begins, and Vladislav Koržets talks about mushroom cooking. At 15 o’clock Mats Kangur’s presentation of his nature photos starts.
Looduse buses go from Tartu to the Mushroom week. Your guides in the mushroom forests are Toivo Tuberik, arranger of the event, and mycologist and nature photographer Vello Liiv. Departure from Keskkonnahariduse Keskus (Kompanii 10) at 9.30 on Saturday morning, back in Tartu at 18.
Price for adults – including students and pensioners – is 150 Krooni, schoolchildren 100 Krooni, children under school age free. Bring along your mushroom basket and bread and butter!
Mushrooms have a prominent place in the "Korilase käsiraamat” – “Nature gatherer’s field guide"...
Mushrooms have a prominent role in nature as well, although it is not always very evident, unless we happen to be in a good mushroom forest at the right time. In human cultures the status of mushrooms has varied, and so it has been in Estonia too: on Kihnu island for instance nobody would even touch the “earth mould” for food.
Which is your favourite mushroom?
I really haven’t a definite favourite, but the woolly milkcap (Lactarius torminosus) and the ugly milkcap (Lactarius necator) are worth attention. They have dense, thick ”flesh”, and when fermented they provide a truly great culinary experience.
Do mushrooms go with for instance fish on the dinner table?
Fish and mushrooms go together like a horse and carriage. Mushrooms are good in a fish soup, as stuffing in the belly of fish to be roasted, with fish in piroshki and so on. And fish that one has caught oneself and mushrooms that one has picked oneself are particularly well suited.
News History
- Birder's diary - 05.02
07.02.2012. - White-tailed eagle camera caught a flashing star
07.02.2012. - Otters know how to enjoy winter
06.02.2012. - Bird feeder guest – grey-headed woodpecker
06.02.2012. - Bird feeder guest - great spotted woodpecker
06.02.2012. - Students’ tit camera
04.02.2012. - Bird feeder guest - redpoll
04.02.2012. - Birder’s diary - 2.02
03.02.2012. - Nature Year Photo 2012
03.02.2012. - ABC of winter garden birds for smart phones
03.02.2012. - Birder’s diary – summary of January
02.02.2012. - Trees of the year - the apple trees
02.02.2012. - Birder's diary - 31.01
02.02.2012. - Burbot - the only winter spawner in fresh waters
02.02.2012. - Boar at feeding ground
01.02.2012. - Ice flower time
01.02.2012. - First results of Winter Garden Bird Watch
31.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 29.01
31.01.2012. - Winter bird feeder camera guests – jay
29.01.2012. - Birder’s diary - 28.01
29.01.2012. - Ice cover on river in the morning
29.01.2012. - Birder’s diary - 27.01
29.01.2012. - Ravens flirting
28.01.2012. - Birder’s diary - 26.01
27.01.2012. - Winter bird feeder camera guest – bullfinch
27.01.2012. - Garden Bird Watch this weekend
26.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 25.01
26.01.2012. - Capercaillie - a bird of pine trees
25.01.2012. - Ice forming on rivers
25.01.2012. - Backyard Potterer’s journal: January
25.01.2012. - Where have the boars gone?
24.01.2012. - Home page of Bird of the Year open
24.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 100 species passed!
24.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 22.01
23.01.2012. - Brisk action at eagle feeding ground
23.01.2012. - Roe deer herds still seen in places
22.01.2012. - Loads of eagles ...
21.01.2012. - Visitor
21.01.2012. - "Märka mind“ – “See me"
21.01.2012. - Elk tracks in snow
20.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 18.01
20.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 17.01
19.01.2012. - Drinker moth’s caterpillars like snow
17.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 16.01
17.01.2012. - Birds of the Year: the plovers
16.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 15.01
16.01.2012. - White-tailed eagles here
16.01.2012. - The year in nature 2011: Rich and poor
15.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 14.01
15.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 13.01
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