>>/914814/
It is, but depends mushroom too. Some are bland.

 >>/914816/
Doesn't matter. Right now I had three small boletes about 2-3 fingers width in diameter. And a bunch of young macrolepiotas, their cap about 10 cm in diameter.

 >>/914817/
We buy raw taters, never frozen.
I cut em up actual fries-shaped ones. It is more customary to cut disks from new potato, like from fresh crop.