VALENTYNA’S WILD CARPATHIAN MUSHROOM SOUP!

First things first, gentle viewers: you have to dive into the thick, mist-shrouded Carpathian forest, preferably at break of dawn, to catch the little fungi while they’re still drowsy. Make sure you catch the right ones: generally if they’re gloriously bright and beautiful they’re going to kill you, or at least make you very sick, if you make a soup out of ‘em. You have to know what you’re hunting. Valentyna does. Mr. East doesn’t. As can be seen in our INCREDIBLE MUSHROOM HUNT VIDEO HERE:

   • HUNTING MUSHROOMS IN THE CARPATHIANS  

All right, you’ve gone out, you’ve bagged your prize, what next? Well, you can dry them. You’ll need dried mushrooms – heck, all the dried foodstuffs you can get – to help you through that Carpathian winter. You can pickle them in jars for the same purpose.

But if you want to eat them right away, you can make a good gravy out of them (although it’s not the local way, Valentyna enjoys a dash of soy sauce in her mushroom gravy) and pour that over your steak and potatoes. Delicious! Or you can make them into fillings for crepes or pies. Also excellent. But in this video we present the classic solution to an overabundance of wild forest mushrooms: make a soup of ‘em.

Bon appétit!


Our music is by the Duke Yellman Orchestra (“I'm More Than Satisfied”). It is public domain and taken from the Internet Archive: www. archive.org


Subtitles offered in: English, Українська, Русский, ქართული, Español

OUR SUBTITLES ARE NOT MACHINE-TRANSLATED. Mr. East did the English and Valentyna did the Ukrainian & Russian. Thank you to our international friends for the help with the others!


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