Morel mushroom hunting

[Lisa Irene]

One of my favorite activities-who am I kidding- I'm obsessed! I am curious if any of you are like minded and want to share info about mushroom hunting. The time is drawing near! Thanks

 

[2 many chickens]

Only mushrooms I hunt are those in the grocery store.
I don't know much about mushrooms.
Just that they are good with speg. Sauce!!

 

[Callender Girl]

If only morel-hunting time were even closer!!! I am completely over this frigid and snowy winter.

My family always looked forward to morel time in southern Iowa, where there were some pretty prime "secret" locations. Do you faithfully guard your best hunting spots?

 

[2 many chickens]

If only morel-hunting time were even closer!!! I am completely over this frigid and snowy winter.

My family always looked forward to morel time in southern Iowa, where there were some pretty prime "secret" locations. Do you faithfully guard your best hunting spots?

Okay, I feel lost. What is a morel and you can eat it or what?
Someone take me mushroom hunting, I'm interested now.

 

[Lisa Irene]

If only morel-hunting time were even closer!!! I am completely over this frigid and snowy winter.

My family always looked forward to morel time in southern Iowa, where there were some pretty prime "secret" locations. Do you faithfully guard your best hunting spots?

Ah yes we used to be very secretive! Now we own 70 acres that they grow in abundance on. I can't wait

 

[Callender Girl]

Morels are not only edible, they are delicious. They are an upright, spongy looking mushroom that is often (at least in southern Iowa) dipped in egg and cornmeal or flour and fried. Morels are also added to beef gravy dishes. Their structure soaks up the sauce and makes them even more delicious. Because of their structure, we always soaked out morels in salted water to lure out any small bugs that may have crawled inside before we even considered cooking them.

Dried ones are becoming more available in grocery stores, but no one I know would buy the expensive dried ones if they could go tromp through the woods and find their own. The biggest down side -- aside from figuring out exactly where to find them because morel hunters are notorious about guarding the locations of their best spots -- is that hunters often also attract wood ticks.

 

[Kessel23]

Okay, I feel lost. What is a morel and you can eat it or what?
Someone take me mushroom hunting, I'm interested now.

They are wild mushrooms that can be pretty hard to find. They will start popping up in the spring. Here is an image off of google, I do not have any pictures of the ones that I have found.

My family looks for them too, we have 75 acres so there is a lot of them out there. And yes, you can eat them, they taste very good

 

[Lisa Irene]

Okay, I feel lost. What is a morel and you can eat it or what?
Someone take me mushroom hunting, I'm interested now.

Morels are the best mushroom in the world! Well except for maybe truffles. You should absolutely check them out- hardest to find but easiest to identify!

 

[kyle476]

my best friend leaves tx every year to pick them!