Fungi eaters

[Button]

Anyone here hunt for edible gourmet and medicinal fungus?

Last summer I picked some chanterelle, they were delicious. Fresh morels are my favorite so far.

 

[Oregonboy]

Mushroom picking is a blast. I usually target Chanterelles, Hedgehogs, Cauliflower, Morels and Lobsters. I wish I knew more about the medicinal fungus. I always see turkey tails and chagas but I have no idea how to prepare them and am too intimidated to make tea on my own, which I've heard is how most consume them. It's a deep rabbit hole, enjoy the journey!

 

[Bigcat_hunter]

Morels are the only mushroom I feel comfortable picking, and maybe inky caps. The look alike for morels are very easy to spot. Be careful! A friend of my folks was a mushroom "expert" and he cut a poisonous mushroom with his knife to show some noobs. He used that same knife to cut some edible ones and gave everyone liver damage! I also know some dudes from high school that all ate an Alice in wonderland looking mushroom thinking they would trip balls. Instead they all got liver damage.

 

[NoWiser]

I love hunting for all kinds of mushrooms. Morels are great, but the summer is a blast with the wide variety that you can find. It's been pretty dry here but if we get the blast of rain tomorrow that they are talking about, it'll definitely be worth a stroll through the woods in the next couple weeks.

 

[Button]

Proper ID is paramount.
Fungi are very beneficial to our health

 

[HighUintas]

I so miss the mushrooms of the Midwest. It's so much more work in the intermountain west for less gastric reward.

I used to find black trumpet, lion mane, chanterelle (both smooth and yellow), old man in the woods, hen of the woods, chicken of the woods, pheasant tail, turkey tail, wood ear, oyster, morel, etc etc.

It's fun stuff even if you don't eat them!!

 

[Button]

I so miss the mushrooms of the Midwest. It's so much more work in the intermountain west for less gastric reward.

I used to find black trumpet, lion mane, chanterelle (both smooth and yellow), old man in the woods, hen of the woods, chicken of the woods, pheasant tail, turkey tail, wood ear, oyster, morel, etc etc.

It's fun stuff even if you don't eat them!!

That sounds like a great time and a variety of delicious fungus.

 

[Mike Islander]

No morels here, but plenty of these in my yard. I've started dehydrating them.

 

[Button]

No morels here, but plenty of these in my yard. I've started dehydrating them.
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The delicious orange chanterelles that pops up out of leaf litter. Very nice. Jealous you have a patch in your yard. They pop up year after year according to correct moisture?

 

[Mike Islander]

The delicious orange chanterelles that pops up out of leaf litter. Very nice. Jealous you have a patch in your yard. They pop up year after year according to correct moisture?

Yes, every year starting around early June and through August. Right after a rain that comes after a few dry days.

 

[Button]

Yes, every year starting around early June and through August. Right after a rain that comes after a few dry days.

Very nice.
I took spore prints off a few in hopes I can inoculate some tree saplings to eventually produce them on my property. Odds are not remotely in my favor, but I might as well try.

 

[2ski]

We had some shaggy mane in a clearing by our cabin last year. A lot of them actually. They didn't come back this year.

 

[Finch]

Morels and milk caps for me. Milk caps are pretty "meaty" which I like.

 

[Customweld]

Morels ,cauliflower, puffballs. Brains are my favorite but you have to cook them right to get the toxin out of them.

 

[HighUintas]

Yes, every year starting around early June and through August. Right after a rain that comes after a few dry days.

I don't know if it's true but we always cut the chanterelles rather than pull them them out to ensure they would come back

 

[HighUintas]

For you guys into morels... Many people bread and fry or just make a straight soup, but the best way I've ever had em is dehydrated then rehydrated in a soup

 

[dtrkyman]

Morels and hen of the woods, my last house I had a hen of the woods grow at the base of a big oak next to my deck nearly every year.

 

[butcherboy]

We used to pick the heck out of shrooms when we found them elk hunting. Had huge garbage bags full of them and we used them in every dish we cooked at elk camp. Brought them home and finished off the rest. I miss those days!

 

[GSPHUNTER]

When I was a kid growing up in So. Wisconsin and on many trips back there to visit, we would go out and hunt for Puffball rooms. They literally come up overnight. Some of them got the size softballs and bigger. We would slice them to about 1/2 inch thick and pan fry them like a steak.. If we got lucky we would run into a bunch of Morels, which are every room eaters favorite.

 

[Foggy Mountain]

I pick morels, pheasantback, oysters, chants, my girl and her daughter fav., chicken of the woods, my fav hen of the woods and sometimes when I find them bears tooth or lions mane . Puffballs we don’t really look for they’re all over at times. Not my fav but they make cool pizza crusts.