Mushroom foragers

[Alaskan]

My kids love the puffballs.

I am perpetually jealous though of all of the people that find the giant 6 pound versions, all we find are little ones.

 

[katsdar]

Thanks.

I have been going with my cousin quite a bit. He has done it for year but only a couple species. We are trying to learn new ones and do it safely.

I was really afraid to try the first piece, as was my wife. We grew up with people saying "
DON'T EAT WILD MUSHROOMS THEY WILL KILL YOU!"

I have learned through some research that is not the case. Some could kill you, so make sure you don't eat them.

Make sure you know what the mushrooms are growing on or in. I am only comfortable with 4 species right now. I will be adding others slowly.

I am astounded the "puffballs" we use to throw at each other in "puffball fights" as kids are so darn good when cooked in butter and onions. They must be young and immature though, and make sure they are not stinkballs. I have two in the fridge to eat today. I found one last night when feeding chickens and one this morning when letting chickens out.

Where is the pic?

My kids love the puffballs.

I am perpetually jealous though of all of the people that find the giant 6 pound versions, all we find are little ones.

my brother lives in Anchorage

 

[Chicken girl 15]

@duluthralphie assuming you have the same red mushrooms I posted they won't kill you but will make you vomit. They stinks I want to find good ones.

 

[Alaskan]

Try to find ones without gills. Much easier to identify, and more are edible.

 

[duluthralphie]

Where is the pic?
 my brother lives in Anchorage

Here is one I got last week. I also only get small puffballs.

 

[duluthralphie]

@duluthralphie assuming you have the same red mushrooms I posted they won't kill you but will make you vomit. They stinks I want to find good ones.

Bad choice of words on my part. To me making me .

is poisoness

 

[theuglychick]

Yay! Mushroom hunting with you down here in Louisiana!!! Well, if it would ever stop raining

 

[Alaskan]

Rain = crazy numbers of mushrooms popping up.


I keep sending my kids out to find good stuff.... They finally brought home an edible Bolette, but it was past its prime, so we didn't eat it.

 

[theuglychick]

Rain = crazy numbers of mushrooms popping up.


I keep sending my kids out to find good stuff.... They finally brought home an edible Bolette, but it was past its prime, so we didn't eat it.

We have bolettes here that are anything but edible. I nicknamed them Pancake-o-the-yard. We have plenty of mushrooms but they're actually becoming waterlogged now. Especially the chanterelles

 

[lcertuche]

I will be stalking this thread. I love foraging but don't know anything about wild mushrooms. My sister's Chinese SIL used to go get some kind of fungi off willow trees here in Arkansas. They didn't look like mushrooms but were very good to dry and use.