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Post by ketoriverfarm on Mar 24, 2018 5:04:06 GMT
I am in the Pacific Northwest. After an area burns, the next year there will be multitudes of morel mushrooms. The first year after the fire that burned close to us, DH and I went and picked two five gallon buckets in about an hour. We are down to one small jar of dehydrated mushrooms left. Last year we could could not get into our favorite mushroom area nor our huckberry picking area due to a landslide. High hopes for a more successful season this year.
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Post by wally on Mar 24, 2018 11:23:15 GMT
Morrell season is just around the corner for us..
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Post by 1shotwade on Mar 24, 2018 12:41:49 GMT
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Post by 1shotwade on Mar 24, 2018 12:51:04 GMT
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Post by Skandi on Mar 24, 2018 13:14:55 GMT
I've been picking them since I could walk, I generally only pick 3 or four types, but that is because I am fussy and do not like the taste of many types! When I go out I take my basket and I take some smaller plastic bags. "normal" mushrooms (chanterelles, boletes of various types, moss canterelles etc etc) go directly into the basket. Hedgehog fungus and puffballs go into their own bag, they have little spines that break off and get everywhere and I would rather not have to clean them off everything. And anything I do not recognise or am not sure about but want to identify goes into a third bag and gets taken home so I can look in my books. Nothing much will be about here until Late July while morells do grow here I have never found any. The only mushrooms I have been picking all winter and will continue to pick all year are Jews Ears (renamed "wood" ears for the PC brigade)
Of all the odd mushroom finds I had last year the best one must have been a Lawyers wig (Coprinus comatus) which grew out of a growbag I had tomatoes in!
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Post by 1shotwade on Mar 24, 2018 13:40:07 GMT
Skandi, I'd be very interested in how you use woodear.I have tasted it only.I was told it is used as a spice in Chinese cooking but that's the only info I have on it.
Also, a good field guide for mushrooms would be the Audubon but the "go to" info on mushrooms is "Mushrooms Demystified". Wade
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Post by Skandi on Mar 24, 2018 14:31:22 GMT
Skandi, I'd be very interested in how you use woodear.I have tasted it only.I was told it is used as a spice in Chinese cooking but that's the only info I have on it. Also, a good field guide for mushrooms would be the Audubon but the "go to" info on mushrooms is "Mushrooms Demystified". Wade I slice them into strips and add to stirfrys and soups. I also dry a lot they are very easy to dry and re-hydrate exactly like they were before. I don't think it has much taste really, but it does have a great texture in my opinion. I use Philips for mushroom identification, best book out there in my opinion,(for Europe of course) I have the second edition which came out nearly 30 years after the first! It updates the latin names and gives english names to those mushrooms that didn't have them before, but the old version is still perfectly fine for identifying the edible ones. I also have a Danish mushroom book, which I ONLY use to get the danish name, it has "Arty" photos in it, not good sections and sizes to actually help you identify that small brown thing you found.
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Post by 1shotwade on Mar 24, 2018 14:37:12 GMT
Thanks Skandi! Those "little brown things" Have their own classification on this side of the pond! They are only referred to as LBMs!Maybe we are too lazy or too bewildered by them to peruse them any further than that!LOL! Wade
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Post by Cabin Fever on Mar 24, 2018 19:52:06 GMT
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Post by Skandi on Mar 24, 2018 21:58:26 GMT
My grandfather had about four names for edible mushrooms, there were chanterelles, cep, yellow legs (winter canterelles) and then "suppe sopp" (pronounced sup sop) which in Norwegian means soup mushrooms, in his opinion anything that wasn't one of his favorites was a soup mushroom.
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Post by feather on Nov 12, 2018 17:40:49 GMT
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Nov 12, 2018 21:45:43 GMT
That is soooo cool... And just a little bit creepy! Interesting article - thanks for posting! ~Mari
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Post by feather on Nov 12, 2018 21:57:00 GMT
Mari-in-IN,it is kind of creepy. If I came across them myself, I'd worry that I was suffering some kind of hallucination from eating rye bread or something.
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Nov 12, 2018 22:08:47 GMT
Mari-in-IN ,it is kind of creepy. If I came across them myself, I'd worry that I was suffering some kind of hallucination from eating rye bread or something. Funny you should say that. I was kind of thinking that to myself as well... well, minus the rye bread! But if I were alone in the woods - what would my first reaction had been if seeing these for the first time? I think wide-eyed with a look of confusion and dismay! ~Mari
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