How to forage for wild mushrooms NSW for beginners + epic winter cookup EP03

We go foraging for edible wild mushrooms in the Southern Highlands NSW, Australia. And cook up a truffle mushroom pasta in the forest with our finds.
We’ve been isolating in Bowral for a few weeks during COVID 19 and, like everyone else, getting pretty bored staying inside. Our friends had shown us a secret spot hidden in Penrose State Forest where a lot of edible mushrooms grow. Eager to try our hand at foraging, having never done it before we go on the hunt for saffron milk cap mushrooms (pine mushrooms). Bright orange in colour, quite unlike the normal mushrooms you buy in the supermarket… they shouldn’t be too hard to spot, and this time of year (Autumn) is the ideal time to forage. In Australia, 20% of mushrooms are poisonous, and some of those fungi are highly toxic - indeed deadly, so we avoided touching anything that didn’t look explicitly like the saffron milk cap.
We bring a camp stove with us and cook a truffle mushroom recipe in the forest and wash it down with a glass of red wine. Not sure if it was because we were starving or because the pasta recipe was so damn good… But it was DELICIOUS! Watch to the end to see what the mushrooms tasted like + to see the epic sunset over the pine trees!
Key info:
Penrose State Forest in New South Wales is huge, 2,000 hectares, and you would need a 4wd to get to the mushroom spot we head to. Alternatively, you could also leave the car on the main bush track and walk the 200m in.
Be cautious & always refer to multiple reliable sources before consuming any wild edibles!
We’d like something to show the grandkids, so we’ve set ourselves the task of making videos of our Australian travel adventures weekly. If you want to follow along and see if we love (or hate) not having a routine or more than 6 metres of living space…or if you’re just looking for holiday inspiration, then SUBSCRIBE! New videos every Friday.
Dunc and Soph x
Follow along on Instagram - / ifnotnow_ds
Music by Epidemic Sound (www.epidemicsound.com) #mushroomforaging #cookingshow #SouthernHighlands

[@ulaa-explorewithmyfamily5801]

Love it the way you presented Oh mate! U both are really living & into it!!! Good tip abt mushrooms & pasta recipe!!! Keep posting

[@IfNotNow]

Thanks agin 😊 we cannot underestimate how tasty the pasta was!! Or maybe we were just super hungry 🤷‍♀️😉

[@sodoityourself5920]

Love your camera work and your videos! New subscribers here!! Keep it up guys we can’t wait to see more!

[@IfNotNow]

Thanks so much guys! This was one of our first videos and we were (and still are) learning so much 😊 also, how cool is it that you can forage for food if you know where to look 👀 🙌

[@sandojr6256]

Great video guys thank you! Beautiful couple wish you many years of happiness

[@IfNotNow]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@pursuetheadventure]

Awesome video guys! Just had a trip to a forest and was looking for a good recipe for these mushies. Looks delicious.

[@IfNotNow]

Oh epic! Sooo glad. Perfect time of year for it now!!

[@justbee527]

My 1st thought was leave some 4 next season. Good that u put it 2 the Viewers not to pick just because your hi😅

[@IfNotNow]

Ha! We were conscious about only picking the amount we needed, and luckily there was lots in the forest to go around ☺️

[@justinjones7023]

#hummusforever - great series guys - keep up the good work 👍🏼

[@IfNotNow]

hahaha. Hummus for life! x

[@LastChanceFossil]

Smoked cheese is the way to go! Good choice and awesome video guys, keep it coming :)

[@IfNotNow]

Glad you approve. It's our favourite (well, joint first with blue cheese :))

[@DanRoach]

Hummus as an ice cream topping next episode please!

[@IfNotNow]

Ooooo that’s one that we haven’t tried 😅

[@FruitsOfLife001]

Nice video.

[@IfNotNow]

Thanks guys! Appreciate it

[@gruche]

Funny that the first video I find from you is in my home town haha

[@IfNotNow]

Oh hey neighbour! Dunc grew up in Bundanoon and then Burradoo. Which town is your home town? We can't believe it's taken us this long to go foraging, it's definitely becoming a favourite autumn activity for us.

[@gruche]

@@IfNotNow I'm from Bowral, and grew up here, I've also only started foraging a year or so ago at the same place hahha

[@ctube6544]

the located?

[@hairywookie8835]

You can eat Amanita Muscaria just need to prepare them.

[@IfNotNow]

Oh really? That’s awesome. What’s your method for prep?

[@guntherhunter5231]

@@IfNotNow boil them twice and discard the water. They're hallucinogenic and you've got to eat a lot to have any really bad effecfs. The active ingredient is muscimol

[@hairywookie8835]

Smaller the better with saffies.

[@IfNotNow]

👌👌

[@australianlittlegardeners7058]

i never know that mushroom can be eating,so how do to identifine them

[@IfNotNow]

There are many edible mushrooms however it is very important not to eat a mushroom that you find before identifying it. Some mushrooms look very similar to toxic mushrooms and could have harmful effects. I am aware there are professional foraging tours you can go on to, which look like a lot of fun! 💕

[@beefychicken414]

what about hummus and pickles???

[@IfNotNow]

YES KAT! That would actually be quite a traditional combo :) Dunc makes a great pickle sauce for burgers and we always eat hummus with (everything ha) so that’s a definite yes from us 😆

[@lilysotsavanh4340]

Looks like human remains...

[@IfNotNow]

Ha. Hoping they're kangaroo or similar... Forests are magical in the day but I wouldn't fancy being alone after dark... hehe Soph x

[@madeleineperry9232]

My thoughts exactly hope they’re not tho!

[@baby.ribz.]

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