Mushroom hunting

Cool!

I've gone morel-hunting in Minnesota. Yummy!



And any excuse to spend time in the woods.

those? don't they really really stink? there's a similar mushroom here (the stinker) - but that ain't edible. i have to look it up now.

http://morelsandmore.com/

Ahahahaha! Don't I know that state of mind! Quite a read!

EVERYBODY DO THE MOREL DANCE!!!

<actually, that's a teeny bit obscene...>

oh yummy.
im jealous.

I love to grill portabella mushrooms and make burgers out of them.
Get some good rice bread, spinach, a big ripe tomato..

oohh.. Im drooling just thinking about it..

how bout breaded and fried like a wiener schnitzel, with some mayonnaise? ok, i know, sounds like a heart-attack material, but it's so goood. we use yoghurt instead of may these days. still heavy...

i have not heard of mayo on mushrooms?
I would try that. Sounds wonderful to me.

I use balsamic, season salt and usually avacado for topping. Rice bread, spinach, tomato and maybe some cheese.

(anything deep fried with mayo is delicious).

wot? i didn't say that. i would never!

>snort<
i heard that...

so how would you do that...
deep fry it in olive oil?
then what?

nah. bread it first - roll it in flour, egg, and bread crumbs, then deep fry it in vegetable oil. serve with potatoes (or umm, french fries, but you don't have that from me) with mayo mixed with chives, bit of mustard, salt and pepper, crushed garlic (tartar sauce, isn't it? sumtin' like that.)

Was wishing the mushroom queen was with me on the hike last weekend..... we saw some good ones.

I love to hunt mushrooms myself.

TIP: If you are not absolutely sure that the mushroom is edible....prepare a small portion and offer it as a gift to someone. Call the next day...and if all went well...cook up the rest an eat 'em.

Frank, thanks for the mushrooms you sent me yesterday. They were quite good.

Glad to hear it, Gus.

Now if Bernie and Dys would just get back to me on the ones I sent them...I'm gonna have one heck of a dinner.

My favorite is homemade pizza topped with chanterelles and walnuts that have been sauteed in olive and walnut oil . Put the topping on 5 minutes before the pizza is done so the mixture is not over cooked.

I was told that Portabellos were just the mother mushroom of commercially grown crimini. Commercial growers got tired of throwing out the mother and they invented the name "Portabello" to sound fancy and marketed it as something other than crimini. I have never seen Portabello's in a mushroom ID guide. I'll look around for more info.

Morels are scare in my area, but I do know a few lucky hunters who have found some.

As to Frank's mushroom test - some mushrooms take days to show their poisonous effects. A person will feel fine until their liver starts to break down and that can take a week to 10 days.

Remember Dag, that some mushrooms that are edible in Europe are toxic in the US. A former Ukrainian boyfriend's grandmother died after eating such a look-a-like. Sorry I do not remember the variety.

yikes!