Kaleidoscope Shrooms

Are not, in fact, a long lost Beatles song. I've been spending the summer trying to find ways to eat more plants by eating wild ones. (Which has boiled down to: wild plants are gross. With the notable exceptions of plants I'd been eating for years and dandelion petals).

I love mushrooms, and of course, they grow EVERYWHERE. So I thought, hey, I'll eat some of them! But upon further reading realized I couldn't distinguish between them well enough and could wind up with a delicious grilled fungus or secret rubbery death!!!

While still in the investigation stages, I found this fellow (Manderly the Mushroom) in the yard and it was quite lovely if stinky on the inside. This mushroom is actually edible before its spore stage (or so some very badly designed blogs tell me).