Found a part-grown Beefsteak (Fistulina hepatica) on oak. It dripped sticky, blood-like juice down my wrist all the way home.

Sliced fairly thinly, pan-fried in butter with a few shop mushrooms; added a dash of red wine. Power cut (not my fault, honest) so finished on a camping stove. Cooled and add cream from top of milk, more would go; then - a squeeze of honey stirred in from one of those plastic honey dispensers. It was my best way of eating beefsteak so far.

A fellow at the Gathering said that when he found some a mycologist started jumping up and down saying that beefsteak was toxic. Anyone ever had any problems? It can be slightly laxative but that's all i've suffered from in half a dozen meals.

Advice, if you will accept it. If you have a glut of some edible mushrooms, even something like Parasols, don't overdo it. Leave a day or two before a repeat meal and don't go for excessive quantities. Adverse effects from known safe edibles have come to people this way, look in the medical journals.