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Main Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: Kingcreek on September 24, 2020, 09:14:42 PM
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I’ll never pass up another one. I see them along the road or along tractor paths and I’ve messed with them in years past. I usually find them after the brief time when they are not buggy or turning brown.
Tuesday eve went for a walk with the wife on our one lane remote road and saw nothing. Wednesday morning there was a beautiful pure white unblemished mushroom about the size of a volleyball across from the drive.
I peeled it and sliced it about 3/4” thick slices and then into triangular wedges. Dipped in egg and rolled in Italian bread crumbs and fried in hot oil in a vintage cast iron skillet. Moved to a platter with paper towel and topped with grated Parmesan cheese immediately while hot.
It was damn good. If I die with horrible abdominal pain tonight because of fungus misidentification or gall bladder revolt, it will have been worth it. It was that good.
Carry on.
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yum yum
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Ya dead yet?
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Ya dead yet?
Made it through the night! Feelin alright!
I live 1/2 mile from a state park. I think I’ll hunt early tomorrow morning for another one. They can get as big as a bushel basket. They’re only good when very fresh and they’re not fresh long.
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Mushrooming in a state park?
Here in Virginia I think that's a crime....
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Good thing I don't have to forage for my food. I can't tell a mushroom from a toadstool.
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Mushrooming in a state park?
Here in Virginia I think that's a crime....
We can in Iowa for mushrooms and berries, nothing else.
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It's allowed here in Illinois but now that I think about it, I'll have to check. Parts of the park are also open to dove and squirrel hunting.
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I'm looking more into this, and it may be legal in Virginia. I thought it was illegal.
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I mowed over a hen of the woods mushroom last weekend before I saw it. I was on the tractor with a 72” rough cut deck on the back. They usually grown on a rotten stump but this one was 10’ from the tree line. They are a better fall mushroom than puffball.
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I can't tell a mushroom from a toadstool.
The mushrooms are the ones with the hollow points. :old:
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While hiking my new property with my girls today I came across some of what I'm pretty sure are oyster mushrooms. They checked all the boxes - correct color and size, oyster shape, smooth cap, decurrent gills, shelf-like clusters, little/no stem, white flesh, growing on dead hardwood, smells a bit like fish when cooking. I sautéed them and ate a small piece tonight. If I'm not dead tomorrow I'll eat a full mushroom and see what happens.
I don't believe there are any poisonous mushrooms that match the description but I guess we'll find out. Tasted pretty good, although I over-salted a bit.
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You're not dead yet, since you posted yesterday. Unless you are a zombie poster.
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You're not dead yet, since you posted yesterday. Unless you are a zombie poster.
Could you tell the difference?
After a few days of eating it I had no problems so I let my youngest daughter try some too. She liked it quite a bit and asked that we look for it again next time we hike the property.
Should be decent morel hunting next year too.
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I had no idea those things are edible. They were common where I grew up. Once they dried out a little, they were great fun to shoot at.
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A cop friend stopped by my property to hunt morels. He found almost 50 and told me where to look.
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A cop friend stopped by my property to hunt morels. He found almost 50 and told me where to look.
Did he use his service pistol or bring a rifle?
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Did he use his service pistol or bring a rifle?
Rifle, of course. Mushrooms can be deadly.
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While out on local hikes/rides last week I saw the morels have been popping.
I used to really look forward to the spring ritual of hunting/picking them. I still enjoy the hunt but rarely pick them any longer.
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We harvested and ate puffballs this year. They were okay, but nothing special. Very mild flavor and the texture was kind of bland too. A quick chop and fry and they were great for adding to an omlette, though.
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They are mild. Liberal seasoning works great so does toppings. They can be used like eggplant parmesan.
I'm also told they can be sliced, oiled, and used as a pizza crust with the usual pizza stuff on top.
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Someone gave us a wild chicken of the woods mushroom a few years ago. They are a supposedly "edible" mushroom that really does taste like chicken breast. We all ate it, and were fine... except my youngest who vomited for two days. Apparently a "rare" reaction. :-[
I'm not touching wild mushrooms anymore.
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I know a lot of people enjoy hunting and eating wild mushrooms but I am not one of them, other than morels. Morel hunting in Montana and other parts of the northwest is a commercial operation. Entire cities of pickers (mostly Hmong) set up and strip a forest clean. In some states they are limited to certain areas so amateur pickers have a chance. I used o go morel hunting in Montana, it was a great way to get out into the woods, the same as huckleberry picking in Idaho and Montana. Depending on what I could pick I would either keep them and eat them or trade some of the bounty for dried mushrooms so I could have them for soups and such.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/mushroom-hunters-photos
bob
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I can only digest so many fungi wild or cultivated, so I get the digestive disturbances. I love foraging for them, but I give much of them away to friends.
I have at least 4 types of edible fungus in my back yard that I harvest but my neighbors benefit from the bulk of them.
Puff ball, fall oyster, chanterelle and hen of the woods season is just getting started in in my QTH.
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This was a new one this year, deaths being associated with raw or undercooked morels. It sounds like it really put a damper on the prices the foragers were getti g among other things.
https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/business/a-lot-we-dont-know-montana-mycologists-foragers-talk-morel-mushrooms-following-deaths-this-spring/article_372dbccc-41db-11ee-a63e-dfb2453e05e8.html
bob
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Decades ago, I read about people that harvest large puffballs and slice them like bread, then fry them up like french toast.
I'm not a mushroom eater of any kind, partly because I know how the store-bought ones are grown. A former co-worker owned so woods and regularly found puffballs, morels, etc. that he ans his wife would use in a variety of dishes.
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Saw the first puffball of the season tonight across from my mailbox. It was only about the size of a softball. Might be soccer ball size by morning. Haven't harvested any yet.