Mushroom foragers

[Bogtown Chick]

Jerry how did you like those chanterelles you/we found that day? How did you prepare them? With a large celebratory Steak of some sort? I LOVE those things and am wanting more. I will have to wait...I know...almost a whole year again....Maybe more like 10 months or so. July/August is when I should start looking around here. We're done. Waiting on Snow shrooms apparently. LOL. Ralphie...you are quite squirrelly this morning.

 

[duluthralphie]

Jerry how did you like those chanterelles you/we found that day? How did you prepare them? With a large celebratory Steak of some sort? I LOVE those things and am wanting more. I will have to wait...I know...almost a whole year again....Maybe more like 10 months or so. July/August is when I should start looking around here. We're done. Waiting on Snow shrooms apparently. LOL. Ralphie...you are quite squirrelly this morning.

It's the cold affecting my mind!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

It's the cold affecting my mind!

Already?! We got a long winter ahead of us!

 

[jerryse]

Jerry how did you like those chanterelles you/we found that day? How did you prepare them? With a large celebratory Steak of some sort? I LOVE those things and am wanting more. I will have to wait...I know...almost a whole year again....Maybe more like 10 months or so. July/August is when I should start looking around here. We're done. Waiting on Snow shrooms apparently. LOL. Ralphie...you are quite squirrelly this morning.

I sauteed them in butter along with some of the lobster mushrooms . Tasty . I think I settled on canning the hen of the woods . Pickled is ok but canned is more versatile . Got to finish the roof before canning any . DW will not touch them . I did a duck with the mushrooms last night . Just made duck and noodles with leftover duck . Ran the broth onion and mushrooms through the blender . 'tis tasty .

 

[jerryse]

Canned 7 pints of hen of the woods and 5 more pints in the pressure canner now .

 

[Birdy Buddy]

I was in Portland OR a week ago and went mushroom hunting. I didn't know my way around but still found a few chanterelle in the woods.
This photo is from a hunt near Mendocino CA last year. I didn't get a pic of the chanterelles last week. My camera battery was empty. Below I found a few oyster mushrooms but they were too waterlogged to be very appetizing.

 

[duluthralphie]

I was in Portland OR a week ago and went mushroom hunting. I didn't know my way around but still found a few chanterelle in the woods.
This photo is from a hunt near Mendocino CA last year. I didn't get a pic of the chanterelles last week. My camera battery was empty. Below I found a few oyster mushrooms but they were too waterlogged to be very appetizing.

Your oysters look different than the ones I have seen here.


I went for a about a 2 mile stroll though the woods today. We have had warm (60-70 degree days) and nights above freezing for the past 10 days or more. Some rain. I thought something might pop, Nothing at all, except a log full of pigskin puffballs. Which I left right there.

I did see one something a few days old but I had no idea what it was.

I think I am done until spring, unless I travel somewhere. My Brother in NC sent me a picture of a mushroom he found, asked me what it was, It was a hen...

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Ralph-I didn't know you were in to mushroom hunting too! Is there anything you're not into? (Besides water fowl of course!) My husband and I just started some light foraging this year when we found some crowned tipped coral mushrooms growing on a log just inside the woodline at our house. It got us curious. We've only found a few edible ones so far but we haven't looked far and wide yet. We want to get some spores for hen of the woods and chicken of the woods to get some started

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralph-I didn't know you were in to mushroom hunting too! Is there anything you're not into? (Besides water fowl of course!) My husband and I just started some light foraging this year when we found some crowned tipped coral mushrooms growing on a log just inside the woodline at our house. It got us curious. We've only found a few edible ones so far but we haven't looked far and wide yet. We want to get some spores for hen of the woods and chicken of the woods to get some started

I am very new to foraging for fungi.

But I really like it, there is something about finding tasty free stuff I like. It is like being a kid hunting Easter Eggs.

I have lived my life with one ruling principle, " You only go around once". Therefore you would most likely never guess everything I have done, or tried to do. My Son In Law is always giving me crap about it. That and the fact according to him I own 3 of every tool known to civilized man.

BTW unlike most guys that think there son in law is not good enough for there daughter, which I thought for the first 10 years, I think he is a great guy and my daughter did ok....


However, when he bought some coveralls a month or two ago my daughter told him " OMG, I married my Father!"

BTW I have gotten him into mushrooms too. LOL

 

[duluthralphie]

The pigskin puffballs:






These are not edible. The look somewhat like puffballs, but they grow on wood are tan/brown in color and they lack the ""mesh netting" look of a puffball. Also they have a "tit" on the top of them. Very small but it is there.

I took the picture because they were the only growing shrooms I saw yesterday. If you open them they are brown inside. Not the pure white of a good puffball.

If we can't hunt this time of year we can at least teach each other the things we have learned. I know BC is leery about puffballs, so hopefully seeing the bad ones will help her get the good ones.

Just thinking about puffballs makes me want to cook up the few I have left, but I will wait for winter to really hit to do that.