{"id":12,"date":"2009-10-27T17:17:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T17:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madebytheforge.wordpress.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2024-02-28T16:55:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:55:36","slug":"food-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/food-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I am a farrier I am pretty much always in the countryside mostly surrounded by mud and horses. As I was leaving a yard I got out to close the gate and saw to my amazement a huge crop of mushrooms just inside a paddock gateway. I figured they were field mushrooms because of their position in the field, shape and smell and (most important) a good field guide told me so when I got home. I picked all the best ones.<\/p>\n<p>It was the weekend and I got up enthusiastically to cook the mushrooms.\u00a0I firstly checked the mushrooms very carefully for any maggots as they can crawl up the stems into the head of the mushroom. I then washed \u00a0them thoroughly and rough chopped them or you can leave them whole. To cook I heat up a wok, which lives on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.co.uk\/kitchenware\/kitchen-products.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pan rack<\/a>, and then I choose to fry butter and a whole clove of garlic with the mushrooms in it. 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