Mushroom foragers

[Bogtown Chick]

Ralphie did you cook them up with some back straps?!

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie did you cook them up with some back straps?!

I placed a little grapeseed oil in a fry pan, a half a teaspoon of butter and shook some minced onion pieces into the mixture added the mushrooms and salt and pepper..

I sauteed them, dumped them into a bowl..THEN the WWD came over and whined about wanting her half...(I did not see her out there crawling through the ticks and stickers hunting them)

She grabbed a bowl and took "half"..She does not think I noticed she took the bigger better 3 pieces.

I got the little 3 and the scraps. I was with my cousin when hunting them so he took 2 home, even though he only found 1 and I found 4.. All this just goes to prove what a sweet generous guy I am and how it hardly bothers me to give up even one of these tasty little morsels...


While the WWD was eating her "half",, she was moaning in pleasure. I have to tell you they were the best wild mushrooms I have ever eaten. I am hoping to go looking on Wednesday for more and maybe Thursday.


Here is what the first 2 I got looked like in the woods....BTW all you putor genius type wiz kids stop trying to find the "location info" off this picture..It is a picture of the picture on my Computer screen..All you will get is my house location off it.... nananananaaaa

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I think we have blacks up here rather than the other kind. I think Ralphie you are learning why people just go to their spots on their own. Another reason would be hoarding the finds for yourself!

If we find some up here I will have mixed feelings... lol... just saying!

 

[Zoomie]

@duluthralphie and @Bogtown Chick when I was first learning about mushrooms and going out with people, they were all extremely closed-mouth about Morchella in general. They would neither admit nor deny that this family had ever been found in the state, and it was a huge deal to them. They were also extremely chary of sharing any information at all about Cantherellus (chanterelles) and it was not until years later that one of my mentors admitted to finding quite a few large fruitings... all while mysteriously failing to mention where they were except in the vaguest way.

I can understand. There was a guy across the street from me who would not just go out and pick a few for himself, he went out and picked EVERY LAST ONE to SELL commercially. It's kind of horrible to get out in the woods and find out that someone has been there before you and basically removed every single last thing, usually doing some destruction to the soil and plants in the process, for commercial purposes. Sure, they have that right, it is a National forest, but you know, a lot of times I just leave whatever I find right where it is, and make very certain not to cause any damage. There are others besides me, and I want them to be able to enjoy these guys as much as I do, not to mention I don't want to harm the mycelium in any way. When I find some to eat, I am very selective and only pick the ones that I know will be good. Too young, too old, not quite right, I leave them be... but not everyone does that. Which is a long way of explaining why I, too, have gotten cautious about sharing where I find things.

 

[duluthralphie]

I think we have blacks up here rather than the other kind. I think Ralphie you are learning why people just go to their spots on their own. Another reason would be hoarding the finds for yourself!

If we find some up here I will have mixed feelings... lol... just saying!

Actually, It is a mixed bag with hunting with others, you have to share the shroom's but the more eyes you have looking the better chances of finding the the shrooms.

@duluthralphie and @Bogtown Chick when I was first learning about mushrooms and going out with people, they were all extremely closed-mouth about Morchella in general. They would neither admit nor deny that this family had ever been found in the state, and it was a huge deal to them. They were also extremely chary of sharing any information at all about Cantherellus (chanterelles) and it was not until years later that one of my mentors admitted to finding quite a few large fruitings... all while mysteriously failing to mention where they were except in the vaguest way.

I can understand. There was a guy across the street from me who would not just go out and pick a few for himself, he went out and picked EVERY LAST ONE to SELL commercially. It's kind of horrible to get out in the woods and find out that someone has been there before you and basically removed every single last thing, usually doing some destruction to the soil and plants in the process, for commercial purposes. Sure, they have that right, it is a National forest, but you know, a lot of times I just leave whatever I find right where it is, and make very certain not to cause any damage. There are others besides me, and I want them to be able to enjoy these guys as much as I do, not to mention I don't want to harm the mycelium in any way. When I find some to eat, I am very selective and only pick the ones that I know will be good. Too young, too old, not quite right, I leave them be... but not everyone does that. Which is a long way of explaining why I, too, have gotten cautious about sharing where I find things.

I am new to mushrooms and am trying to learn which ones are good and which ones not. It takes time to learn the good from the bad....

BTW these were in the good class~!

 

[Zoomie]

Actually, It is a mixed bag with hunting with others, you have to share the shroom's but the more eyes you have looking the better chances of finding the the shrooms.





I am new to mushrooms and am trying to learn which ones are good and which ones not. It takes time to learn the good from the bad....

BTW these were in the good class~!

I bet they were! Yes, it does take practice, and it takes practice to even identify them and usually you do have to pick them to identify. I'm talking about the difference between someone thinning a forest, taking out a few trees here and there, and clear cutting. I am sure what you are doing is not harmful.

The good ones, BTW, are not old and punky; not filled with maggots etc. You would not go into the store and pick out rotten fruit and vegetable to take home and eat, you should be just as picky with which mushrooms you will eat. I did have a friend who was NOT picky, and WOULD eat them if they were rotten and maggoty, and as a result she got to spend the night in the ER with the Partner, who works in the ER, being sick as a dog. I do believe she learned from that little experience, but better to just figure it out without all the drama and the huge ER bill later!!!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

You guys are all making me jeolous with the motels! I'm dying to try one this year but haven't had the chance to go out hunting for any. We have plenty of woods behind our house but it's been raining constantly :/

 

[Pensmaster]

@Zoomie

Zoomie, what's this stuff. Came up overnight after watering newly planted garden. Sticky. Two spots of it. Fungi or insect?

Ok just looked it up some sort of slime mold.

 

[henny1129]

The morels are in full force here in Ohio.

 

[rdcowman]

The morels are in full force here in Ohio.

Oh my word! That's a lot! There's not a lot in iowa! We went looking a few weeks ago for 3 hours and we only found 3! There were not in the normal places like they always are. we went looking somewhere were we never looked before and found the 3! Crazy!