Mushroom foragers

[jerryse]

FYI on chicken mushrooms . I have found them on elm , weeping willow , silver maple , oak and the best is thorn locust = honey locust . The one with 4 inch thorns . They will come back every year on locust stumps or logs .

 

[Bogtown Chick]

A short little walk tonight revealed a little Chanterelle and two little lobsters. I didn't walk any further --though I wanted to. But I had to get to the grocery store and then home and get cooking.. Because tonight was wild mushroom night. DH was finally home...After two evenings of previous commitments.


Sauteeing Sweet Texas Onion slivers, Green Onion, Chanterelles, Lobster mushrooms, Black Trumpets and two small hedge hogs in Olive oil and a bit of butter.




Then they were place on a puff pastry along with A beaten egg and fresh grated parmesan cheese, thyme freshly picked from my herb garden. Baked for 16-17 minutes. Very good and very delicious with grilled Venison Tenderloin from a deer my son shot last fall. Mmmm. So good.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Cleaning up my Chanterelle haul from the other night and found that chanterelles that are older are not that great. Like the lobster if they are not firm like a raw potato they are not worth the effort of cleaning up. I threw out about half. They were just old and bug eaten in the middle. They weren't going to be good. Actually I have them in a bucket to run back out to the ground that I found them on to hopefully cast any residual spores back on those grounds.

DH talked to that local forager again. He said it is the best chanterelle year he has ever seen. He's estimated to have picked 50-60lbs of them this year. Dehydrating them like crazy I guess.

 

[katsdar]

A short little walk tonight revealed a little Chanterelle and two little lobsters. I didn't walk any further --though I wanted to. But I had to get to the grocery store and then home and get cooking.. Because tonight was wild mushroom night. DH was finally home...After two evenings of previous commitments.


Sauteeing Sweet Texas Onion slivers, Green Onion, Chanterelles, Lobster mushrooms, Black Trumpets and two small hedge hogs in Olive oil and a bit of butter.




Then they were place on a puff pastry along with A beaten egg and fresh grated parmesan cheese, thyme freshly picked from my herb garden. Baked for 16-17 minutes. Very good and very delicious with Venison Tenerloin from a deer my son shot last fall. Mmmm. So good.

And you didn't invite us for dinner,

 

[Alaskan]

My exact thoughts!

 

[duluthralphie]

Cleaning up my Chanterelle haul from the other night and found that chanterelles that are older are not that great. Like the lobster if they are not firm like a raw potato they are not worth the effort of cleaning up. I threw out about half. They were just old and bug eaten in the middle. They weren't going to be good. Actually I have them in a bucket to run back out to the ground that I found them on to hopefully cast any residual spores back on those grounds.

DH talked to that local forager again. He said it is the best chanterelle year he has ever seen. He's estimated to have picked 50-60lbs of them this year. Dehydrating them like crazy I guess.

I saw on craigslist people are asking 15 bucks a pound for Hen and 10 for chicken.... There is $500 in that tree! I should forget the chicken swap and head to the woods with a ladder and knife.

 

[henny1129]

And you didn't invite us for dinner,   

My exact thoughts!

Lol! Me too!

 

[duluthralphie]

My cousin is coming over in the morning, we are going to see if that 50 pound (estimated weight by me) Chicken is still in the tree. We are taking a ladder with us, hopefully we can get it. It was really orange and young yesterday, hopefully it has grown and not turned too white on us.

I will try to get pictures. I will even try to get a picture of my cousin if he falls out of the tree or off the ladder before I call 911. Hopefully, if I tell him I can't call 911 until he holds still and smiles he will try to push through the pain from the fall.

 

[blackchisel97]

My Better 1/2 came back from walk with this nice Hedgehog. She didn't know what that is and brought only one but she spotted several, running along the deer path. She got quite excited when I told her about mineral content (calcium, manganese, magnesium, iron) as well as chemical compound - Repandiol, which has potent cytotoxic activity against many tumor cells. Hopefully, she will get there before red squirrels do, as they like this mushroom.
This is probably well known for all of you but this shroom has no lookalikes which are poisonous. It is closely related to Chanterells but instead of false gills it has spines a.k.a teeth.

BC, This is one mouth watering dish you have made. I nearly drooled allover my keyboard

Vtech

 

[blackchisel97]

Found these a few days ago . Any ideas .

It looks like a Laccaria orchropurpurea or Purple-gilled Laccaria.

Vtech