So I decided to combine the traditional Boxing Day stroll, with a bit of food foraging.
December might not be the most fruitful time of the year, but as it's mild this time around it's an ideal chance to search for edible mushrooms.
Sure enough, I found oodles and oodles of these things:
Jew's Ear fungus. Not the prettiest name, but the fungus itself can be quite pretty, as the sunlight shines through the silky, salmon-coloured flesh.
I found these in a boggy part of my hometown (Castleford, West Yorkshire). They almost always grow on old, slightly rotten or damaged Elder trees. And of course, on a patch of boggy wasteland, such specimens aren't hard to find!
So I picked about half a kilo of Jew's Ear, and the plan is to fry them - whole - with just some light seasoning, and use the cooked shrooms as a stylish garnish for my mushrooms vol-au-vents.
I hope they're as good as they look!
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