Mac Kerr wrote on Tue, 05 May 2009 13:22 |
I don't know where to look, but Morels are pretty much my favorite mushroom in stew or with beef. Happy cooking! Mac |
Charlie Zureki wrote on Tue, 05 May 2009 10:50 |
Anyone else collecting? |
W. Mark Hellinger wrote on Tue, 05 May 2009 15:38 | ||
Yes. I've heard that collecting Black Morels is possibly a no-no here... endangered spieces or something... so I don't collect Morels anymore, even though there's some large patches here locally (acres in size). I do still collect other varieties here locally... most of which I prefer to Morels anyway. I recommend Ed Tylutki's book: http://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Pacific-Northwest-Naturalist -Books/dp/0893010626 Nothing like a BBQ steak and a big ole skillet of butter fried mushrooms. |
Cory 'Rooster' McKinnon wrote on Tue, 05 May 2009 12:29 |
I've always been a fan of the cubensis in a cream of mushroom soup. |
John Ward wrote on Tue, 05 May 2009 18:28 |
I'm sure someone is just waiting for this so here goes.... The Morels are legal; it's those "magic muchrooms" you can't pick. |
Charlie Zureki wrote on Tue, 05 May 2009 12:50 |
Hello, It's Morel Mushroom time of the year. I collected about half of a 5 gallon bucket this morning in about 45 minutes. It was getting too light out so I had to quit.... can't give away "my territory". Seems like a pretty good year for the shrooms, with the cold spring we've had. Anyone else collecting? Hammer |
Dave Unger wrote on Tue, 05 May 2009 23:35 | ||
One thing I seriously miss about living in northern Michigan is picking morels this time of year. You should hunt with mesh bags (like onion sacks) so the spores fall out while you walk around. You should also grab some wild leeks (ramps) while you are out hunting, they go together perfectly! |
Dave Unger wrote on Tue, 05 May 2009 22:35 |
One thing I seriously miss about living in northern Michigan is picking morels this time of year. You should hunt with mesh bags (like onion sacks) so the spores fall out while you walk around. You should also grab some wild leeks (ramps) while you are out hunting, they go together perfectly! |
Charlie Zureki wrote on Wed, 06 May 2009 07:28 | ||
Dave, it's Turkey Season too. Roasted Turkey, leek/cornbread dressing, butter sauteed Morels, and a wild spinach, dandelion and cattail root salad.... too bad there's no berries yet... for the dressing. Yeah, you Northern Michiganders know good eatin In my county we only have deer, pheasant, rabbit, squirrel, ground hogs, doves, turtles, and fish... although the Walleye (Pickerel to Canadians) is fantastic. You Northerners, get all of the Big Meal Beasts... Moose, Bear, Elk, Snipe, Buffalo. Cheers, Hammer |
Art Welter wrote on Wed, 06 May 2009 16:40 |
Charlie, I do miss the Snipe hunting since moving from Minnesota... Art |
Charlie Zureki wrote on Tue, 05 May 2009 15:41 |
Hey Mark, at about $10 an ounce for Dried Morels... you may want to investigate that Law. You might be sitting on a gold mine. The spores from these mushrooms are in the millions. Cheers, Hammer |
W. Mark Hellinger wrote on Wed, 06 May 2009 20:56 |
funny thing is: she hasn't spoken to me since then. |
Mac Kerr wrote on Wed, 06 May 2009 20:08 | ||
That sounds like a good thing. Mac |
Dave Dermont wrote on Thu, 07 May 2009 13:37 |
I am a Polish Podpinka Picker from Pennsylvania. That's pronounced "PO-pinky" Those guys appear in the fall after the first frost. There's a mushroom you pick in the spring? I never knew! I have not passed on the skill of mushroom identification on to my children. I hope there is still time. There is a tradition of putting a silver dime in the pot when boiling your mushroom. The story goes that if the mushrooms are bad, the dime will discolor and act as a warning to not eat the mushrooms. I am pretty sure this is folklore, but I'll be damned if I ever cooked a pot of 'shrooms without a dime in the pot. Yes, the dime MUST be silver. I constantly misplace my car keys, but I know exactly where my mushroom dime is at all times. Naz Drowie! DD |
Charlie Zureki wrote on Thu, 07 May 2009 11:58 | ||||
Yeah, it would be hard to talk to her anyway with a mouthful of butter-fried Morels. I love it when the "educated" act as if they know what's best for the rest of us. Being that the spores are microscopic and a field full of Mushrooms you've described would be almost impossible to exterminate. Cheers, Hammer |
Dave Unger wrote on Thu, 07 May 2009 15:30 |
The mushrooms you pick are actually just the fruiting body of a much bigger organism. You would have to dig up the whole field and kill the mycelium in order to kill a field of mushrooms. |
Charlie Zureki wrote on Thu, 07 May 2009 18:24 | ||
Yes,I believe you are right... but,is that for all Mushrooms? I don't know enough about them ... I do know that the biggest Mushroom (family?) in the World is in the UP. I believe it was discovered a few years back, and it covers thousands of Acres. I think it's near the only native Cactus to Michigan. Come to think of it... Michigan is a weird State. Cheers, Hammer ps. We do have Bears in lower Michigan ... lots of them. In the Thumb/Port Austin Area, and a lot in the Grayling area. |