{"id":119,"date":"2013-11-08T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T08:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foraginginbirmingham.spiderstudio.co.uk\/?p=119"},"modified":"2013-11-08T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T08:57:07","slug":"puff-ball-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/puff-ball-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Puff Ball Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1461772_10151974217216774_1830305079_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120\" alt=\"1461772_10151974217216774_1830305079_n\" src=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1461772_10151974217216774_1830305079_n.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Puff Balls<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Dead wood<\/p>\n<p><strong>Months:<\/strong> Usually August and September (**Note I found some fresh new ones as late as November this year due to the mild weather!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edible Parts:<\/strong> The spongy middle if pure white (Remove skin and do not eat if it is turning yellow or green inside).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Edible Parts:<\/strong> Skin (yucky)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what these puff balls look like when skinned.l They are spongy, pure white and have a bit of air in them so you can hear it escaping sometimes when you squeeze them.<\/p>\n<p>Some puff balls have spiked skin and some are less wrinkly. All puff balls are edible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1461302_10151973869641774_2147219047_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121\" alt=\"1461302_10151973869641774_2147219047_n\" src=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1461302_10151973869641774_2147219047_n.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They can be dried for storage just like any other mushroom but go great fried and added to burgers (especially giant puff balls which can make up a steak sized portion in your burger!).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Puff Balls Location: Dead wood Months: Usually August and September (**Note I found some fresh new ones as late as November this year due to the mild weather!&#8221; Edible Parts: The spongy middle if pure white (Remove skin and do not eat if it is turning yellow or green inside). Non-Edible Parts: Skin (yucky) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/puff-ball-mushrooms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puff Ball Mushrooms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,12,4,23],"tags":[37,41],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-august","category-forage","category-freefood","category-september","tag-mushrooms","tag-puff-balls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}