Mushroom hunting

[kat in the hat]

Yeah, I've seen them, but have not eaten any yet. I do love morels in the spring and chanterelles in the fall. The chanterelles are bountiful, and nobody around here hunts for them.

[Mark J]

I'll stick to chittlins.

[backwoodsman68geric]

Anyone anxious to hit the morel woods? Earliest we ever picked them here was March 17th. Should be popping some greys up here in 3 weeks or so.

[jawbreaker]

Hen of the woods are pretty good and under hunted un like the morels . i find them around live , dead and rotten oak stumps . the problem is deer like them too , i once launched an arrow at a doe that was feeding on one . oh yea ! i missed !

[Iowa_Josh]

Bob, you old dog. I got ahold of some last year. I think it was late Sept, the weather was cooling off just a bit. About a week after some rain. Right on some mowed grass too.

They're the best mushroom I've had so far to actually cook with. They aren't overly chewy but they don't fall apart when you cook them and the taste is very mild. From what I've read, "better" in the mushroom world means milder taste. You can also get a lot of you find them. They freeeze very well, you can also preserve them other ways all A-OK.

I read it and it is true, they are really good mixed in hash browns. They're also ok battered up. I kinda prefer a little more flavor for that. A nice stir fry thing, they don't overpower and kinda soak up flavor instead.

Really versatile. Really nice to cook with. Kind of a softer than a meat texture when cooked. When you pick you want them real rubbery. If the frond things start to get stiff it's getting old. The downside is cleaning the thing up. It took forever to do just what I found. You gotta soak them and break them up and make sure to get all the bugs out and little bits of grass and leaves or whatever. They kind of grow around anything in their way like a melted marshmallow.

I wanted to find some puffball too but didn't get any of those. They're harder to cook and stuff but there's a really mean puffball chicken recipe on the net.

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[Blue Duck]

Its almost time to start hunting them again.... Think spring!

[psychomekanik]

Anybody finding anything yet?

[Catfishboy1995]

I havent bothered to look yet Too dry around here.

[whitewhiskers]

weather's gittin bout right here, wont be long n youl see cars n trucks parked on the side of the roads around here, it's like openin day of deer season when somebody says i found a couple!
OH NO, AKA Jim is a xpert on shroom's of the hen type, always talkin boutum.

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[oh no]

weather's gittin bout right here, wont be long n youl see cars n trucks parked on the side of the roads around here, it's like openin day of deer season when somebody says i found a couple!
OH NO, AKA Jim is a xpert on shroom's of the hen type, always talkin boutum.

Hen of the Woods or Califlower mushroons are fall mushrooms.

Spring the Morels /Sponge mushrooms come up.. Darn things really shrink when you cook them,, I think it takes a grocery bag to make a skillet full after they shrink.

My wife loves them, so I will get her some this spring. The morrels are up when the lilacs are blooming.