Morels

Ask Francis to send you some, cj, or are you the one
who boycotts French goods? Laughing

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Lots of folks don't buy French products. Plus, if french morels are anything like their pastry, then they are flavorless.

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Morels are not easily found, in my experience, but there is no mistaking them. They are native to North America, so idiotic, snotty comments about the French are meaningless.

They can be confused with a brain mushroom, but i've never thought they looked the same. Other people claim they are easily confused, so if uncertain, take what you find to an expert.

http://www.blistersdicegame.com/morel.jpg

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Set, this is my thread, I can barb the French if I want to. How do you suppose Francis found a north american morel in his garden?

The brain mushroom, Gyromitra esculenta, is also known as a beefsteak morel. Some folks eat them, I don't.

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I had always heard they are poisonous (brain mushrooms), but as i've never met one in the flesh, i couldn't personally say.

It doesn't matter if it's your thread, an idiotic, snotty remark is still an idiotic, snotty remark.

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It was the truth. Perhaps that is why it bothers you so much.

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I do not pretend to find North American morels in my garden but European ones.

They look like this:

http://www.tachenon.com/Morille/ronde1.jpg

And tomorrow I'll cook myself a delicious omelette with them.. (snotty comments or not..)

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Francis, crush up some crackers like Club or even saltines, roll the morels in melted butter then the crackers, and saute in more butter. Try it you'll love it. Good luck with your mushroom hunting!

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morels can migrate?

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I was wondering the same thing.

Or are you joking on me too?

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cjhsa wrote:

It was the truth. Perhaps that is why it bothers you so much.

No it wasn't . . . it is not true that any significant number of people boycott French goods (most don't even know which goods are French--did you stop buying Bic pens and Bic lighters), and it is not true that their pastry is tasteless. You display your ignorance, however, with such comments . . .

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Ignorance would indicate a lack of knowledge, which in your case, is that you don't know I've been to France and tasted their beautiful but tasteless pastry.

I'm sure the mushrooms are better.

BTW have you been eating the blue ones again?

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I wonder what they gave you and you'd thaught it was pastry.

There are six different kinds of eatable morels in Europe, btw, and the "morel goulash" ('Schwammerl-Gulasch') is an Austrian speciality.

We got morels as vegetables today: aspargus with morels in cream (and roast lamb).

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cjhsa wrote:

I've been to France and tasted their beautiful but tasteless pastry.

Maybe you suffered from transitory ageusia?

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He must have! Our German pastries are good, but there
is no comparison to the French ones - they're out of this
world.

Me thinks the patisserie gave cj something other than pastries. Laughing

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I always enjoyed the pastries which were made to travel. French folks, and other Europeans whom i knew, would go home for the holidays, and bring back pastries which were intended to last for days without refrigeration--and they were anything but tasteless.

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Hmm. Even my wife agrees with me, and she spent an entire summer in France.

C'est la vie.

Did anyone find any morels? Geesh.

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Well I ate mine.

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CJ, I am also German by ancestry, but I don't like German food, just the beer. There was an exception in the german butcher I went to in California, but I only liked the "german beef salami", not exactly germanic, eh?

I love french cooking, just not the pastry, which tends to be extremely pretty but doesn't taste as good as any old fried cake doughnut.

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cjhsa wrote:

CJ, I am also German by ancestry, but I don't like German food, just the beer.

So, you're on a liquid diet then? Laughing

German food can be edible, depending on where you are. The northern part
has some unusual food combinations, and in the southern part food is often
loaded with very heavy sauces. Yet, if you know what to eat, it can be
very good.

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