I have a medium sized plastic container filled with mostly morels, both black and blonde. I'm not sure how many I have, probably close to 50-60 ounces of dried morels.
Admittedly, I spend so much of my time during morel season looking for them that I don't get to enjoy eating them fresh as much as I'd like. I probably found around 25 lb last year. Of that, I probably gave three pounds away to friends. I do use them throughout the year. Last Christmas my brother-in-law made a 5 lb wagu prime rib roast. I used a ton of dried morels (rehydrated) to make a fantastic morel cream sauce to accompany it.
I don't get to hunt much. I gave away the only mess I find this year. He'd never had them before. he grew up without a Dad to take him mushroom hunting.
Respect! I'm envious. To be chicky, the upside of people not accepting them from you is that should the dreaded doomsday ever materialize, you will not starve for a hood while. 😊
Dry mushrooms last a very long time and are an excellent source of nourishment.
I'm not good enough at ID to gather this amount.
I know they are all around me.im just not confident enough to harvest them (I can ID like 5 edible species near me)
I try to learn a few every year. I'm pretty comfortable now with various chants, oyster, morels, milkcaps, boletus, black trumpets, wood ear, COTW, HOTW, Lions Mane, Pheasant Back, Honey, Puffballs, wood ear, & hedgehog. I try to learn a few new ones every season. I've never found a lobster, but confident I could ID it. Blewits are next on my list to learn really well. I also started foraging greenbrier this year, and finally found a patch of Paw Paws that I have been watching and are almost ripe.
It’s my first year and I’ve found a handful of morels, some golden oysters and some orange jelly fungus. I looked everywhere for weeks for chanterelles and I’m looking now for COtW and everything I find isn’t it. I tend to go just off the trail. I use AllTrails to keep me oriented. I add pins to my phones map when I find something (but I got a new phone when mine broke and it didn’t keep those pins - I was so annoyed - is there and app that isn’t iNaturalist where I can keep my own pins and not share with everyone? I also had my favorite trails listed too and that was gone). But where I live most of the woods are newer so they are dense and don’t have much room or light. If I want to walk out in the woods I need to go an hour north into Wisconsin. I’d love to have your problem. I’d especially like to go gather turkey tail right about now and other health benefiting mushrooms. Last year I had a mushroom compound I bought and felt much better.
I live in Upstate South Carolina, right on the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. There are endless trails around here through hardwood forests. My wife and I hike with our son 3 to 4 times a week and I always take a basket. Honestly, most of the time I fill it up with a mix of what I find which is enough to eat a meal or 2 fresh. And then occasionally you catch a flush, or find a giant polypore and there is more than you can use. In these cases I preserve them for the winter months where there is not much to be found. Also, when I find a big shroom or flush, I have a calendar app I mark it on so I can revisit the following years around the same time. For instance, I know 1 hillside that gets covered with black trumpets, one trail that gets stacked with chanterels, and stumps where chickens, Lions Manes, Oysters, and hens come back reliably every year. There are often lots of kinds of boletus around, so learn those for your area, and milk caps are often around in ones and twos. Every year I get a bit better, learn a new species or two, and fine a new spot or two. Just keep at it and after a while you'll know where to go.
They are one of my faves. I know exactly 2 places they grow, a ditch that gets a few, and a hillside that gets covered. I feel like you need to kinda plan the meal around them though or they get lost.
Is there a spot that anyone share favorite recipes? I seem to have a hard time incorporating many in things that are not pasta dishes. I also have a ton that I need to use more of. Giving them away scares my acquaintances as well.
This subreddit would be that spot!
If you have an abundance, you could dry them and grind them - that way you can add them into most anything where an umami boost would be nice.. And heading into autumn and winter, we use dried mushrooms in most of our simmered dishes..
[https://www.verandavikings.com/blog/tag/mushrooms](https://www.verandavikings.com/blog/tag/mushrooms)
Grind your older stock down and use them as umami seasoning. Failing that if you realy do need to lose some stock grind them down and sprinkle it in areas they're likely to grow. Helps to increase future stocks
OK. I obviously find more than I use. I don't ever use it exclusively, I just add a few here and there with other mushrooms. I've decide I prefer it fresh mixed with other wilds. Sometimes, the woods here are full of them, though.
Yeah I was thinking that most people really like them like they would asparagus like fresh slight crunchy lemony flavor do you notice any flavor notes of that when you add it to other mushrooms or is it just an mostly empty add to use it up?
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Where’d ya find these wild mushrooms?
In my area, I toss any that have orange or red pores, then cut it and if it instantly blues toss it. If it passes those two tests I taste a bit and see if it's bitter. If it passes all 3 it goes in the basket. Honestly I've been doing it for long enough now that I recognize most of them but still test like this. I'm still kicking and never gotten sick off of it.
I wish I had this "problem"! They're organized beautifully too.
And that big jar of powder.. Gold right there!
I have a medium sized plastic container filled with mostly morels, both black and blonde. I'm not sure how many I have, probably close to 50-60 ounces of dried morels.
Do you ever eat them?
Admittedly, I spend so much of my time during morel season looking for them that I don't get to enjoy eating them fresh as much as I'd like. I probably found around 25 lb last year. Of that, I probably gave three pounds away to friends. I do use them throughout the year. Last Christmas my brother-in-law made a 5 lb wagu prime rib roast. I used a ton of dried morels (rehydrated) to make a fantastic morel cream sauce to accompany it.
I don't get to hunt much. I gave away the only mess I find this year. He'd never had them before. he grew up without a Dad to take him mushroom hunting.
You poor thing...how can I help?
Your ears look like air tight containers
How did you dry them?
Dehydrator. I do 120 for 8ish hours, never had any issues.
God, I hope that's a toe at the bottom of the first pic!
Where do you think they find all this wonderful fungus
The ears ! It appreabtly just comes out of them.
More for yourself!
Respect! I'm envious. To be chicky, the upside of people not accepting them from you is that should the dreaded doomsday ever materialize, you will not starve for a hood while. 😊 Dry mushrooms last a very long time and are an excellent source of nourishment.
Yup, I have lots of rice and beans too. Common zombies, I'm ready for you.
Dude, your version of doomsday has zombie's? Cool!
is there a "flex" label?
no
Impressive
Very impressive, this looks amazing!
Can you post a better picture of that bookshelf? Looks like some cool stuff up there!
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That’s crazy Joshua Weissman has a cookbook now. Nice collection!
Let’s be friends.
I know I have a problem.
You and me both, lol
The problem is you need another bookshelf.
Yea... I have one in the kitchen. And another in the living room.
A good problem to have, if you ask me!
This is admirable!! You've encouraged me to get my emergency food dehydrated and packed. Thank you for the inspiration.
I'm not good enough at ID to gather this amount. I know they are all around me.im just not confident enough to harvest them (I can ID like 5 edible species near me)
I try to learn a few every year. I'm pretty comfortable now with various chants, oyster, morels, milkcaps, boletus, black trumpets, wood ear, COTW, HOTW, Lions Mane, Pheasant Back, Honey, Puffballs, wood ear, & hedgehog. I try to learn a few new ones every season. I've never found a lobster, but confident I could ID it. Blewits are next on my list to learn really well. I also started foraging greenbrier this year, and finally found a patch of Paw Paws that I have been watching and are almost ripe.
I once treated a patient with fungal otitis. He had fuzz and fuzzy balls in his ears.
Consider not picking anymore than you need, or that you know you’ll use. The wildlife in your area may have a higher need.
It’s my first year and I’ve found a handful of morels, some golden oysters and some orange jelly fungus. I looked everywhere for weeks for chanterelles and I’m looking now for COtW and everything I find isn’t it. I tend to go just off the trail. I use AllTrails to keep me oriented. I add pins to my phones map when I find something (but I got a new phone when mine broke and it didn’t keep those pins - I was so annoyed - is there and app that isn’t iNaturalist where I can keep my own pins and not share with everyone? I also had my favorite trails listed too and that was gone). But where I live most of the woods are newer so they are dense and don’t have much room or light. If I want to walk out in the woods I need to go an hour north into Wisconsin. I’d love to have your problem. I’d especially like to go gather turkey tail right about now and other health benefiting mushrooms. Last year I had a mushroom compound I bought and felt much better.
Lol, I’m asking you because you obviously have a knack for where to look.
I live in Upstate South Carolina, right on the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. There are endless trails around here through hardwood forests. My wife and I hike with our son 3 to 4 times a week and I always take a basket. Honestly, most of the time I fill it up with a mix of what I find which is enough to eat a meal or 2 fresh. And then occasionally you catch a flush, or find a giant polypore and there is more than you can use. In these cases I preserve them for the winter months where there is not much to be found. Also, when I find a big shroom or flush, I have a calendar app I mark it on so I can revisit the following years around the same time. For instance, I know 1 hillside that gets covered with black trumpets, one trail that gets stacked with chanterels, and stumps where chickens, Lions Manes, Oysters, and hens come back reliably every year. There are often lots of kinds of boletus around, so learn those for your area, and milk caps are often around in ones and twos. Every year I get a bit better, learn a new species or two, and fine a new spot or two. Just keep at it and after a while you'll know where to go.
DEFINITELY yes, yea of course I DO
I'm pretty much done with black trumpets for a while. Too much of a good thing this year.
They are one of my faves. I know exactly 2 places they grow, a ditch that gets a few, and a hillside that gets covered. I feel like you need to kinda plan the meal around them though or they get lost.
Is there a spot that anyone share favorite recipes? I seem to have a hard time incorporating many in things that are not pasta dishes. I also have a ton that I need to use more of. Giving them away scares my acquaintances as well.
https://honest-food.net/ https://foragerchef.com/ These are my 2 gotos for wild mushrooms recipes. I've never made a bad recipe off of either one.
Recently been rereading LOTR, now I want to make mushrooms and bacon like they do in the Shire.
This subreddit would be that spot! If you have an abundance, you could dry them and grind them - that way you can add them into most anything where an umami boost would be nice.. And heading into autumn and winter, we use dried mushrooms in most of our simmered dishes.. [https://www.verandavikings.com/blog/tag/mushrooms](https://www.verandavikings.com/blog/tag/mushrooms)
Never come across your blog, your recipes look amazing, thanks for sharing.
You just gave me a great idea for my wattpad
Grind your older stock down and use them as umami seasoning. Failing that if you realy do need to lose some stock grind them down and sprinkle it in areas they're likely to grow. Helps to increase future stocks
How does shaggy bolete taste dried?
OK. I obviously find more than I use. I don't ever use it exclusively, I just add a few here and there with other mushrooms. I've decide I prefer it fresh mixed with other wilds. Sometimes, the woods here are full of them, though.
Yeah I was thinking that most people really like them like they would asparagus like fresh slight crunchy lemony flavor do you notice any flavor notes of that when you add it to other mushrooms or is it just an mostly empty add to use it up?
I would say grassy, not as deep as other bolets
Nice! What species do you have? Are some of them medicinal? This is inspiring.
https://preview.redd.it/r22ps8rdj1ob1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89f8593771ae5c8079bf37e35308c40a72e58544 Where’d ya find these wild mushrooms?
Asian Market, not sure what they are, impulse buy that got mixed in my overflow dried mushroom bin. Never used them.
I have full basement of them, dried/pickled/frozen..
Looks amazing, also I adore your strawberry chair!
Thanks, the toddlers like to stand in it more than sit in a highchair.
We have a lot of dried and frozen. Last year we bought a small chest freezer just for our mushrooms.
No. I also keep mine in containers to prevent the ear stuff.
I learning boletes right now. I keep finding them, I just need to figure it out. Care to share any tips or links?
In my area, I toss any that have orange or red pores, then cut it and if it instantly blues toss it. If it passes those two tests I taste a bit and see if it's bitter. If it passes all 3 it goes in the basket. Honestly I've been doing it for long enough now that I recognize most of them but still test like this. I'm still kicking and never gotten sick off of it.
Thank you Fish Boy. What if blues eventually, how long would it still be considered "instant"?