Last year was great for finding Shaggy Mane mushrooms. This year I only found one huge Shaggy Mane and it was too far along to harvest. I suppose that the sweet clover being 6' tall did not help me in finding the mushrooms.
Within the last few days I started finding lots of Alcohol Inky Caps but still no Shaggy Manes until yesterday evening while looking for Guinea eggs. I got a huge double handful of them. They were so buried in the thick grass that I only spotted a couple and kept uncovering more as I picked them.
I coated them in a batter of flour, salt, pepper, garlic powder, egg and milk and fried them in butter. They were heavenly!!