Looky what's growing in my front yard!!
 

Morel Mushrooms!!!! I picked 139 of them in my front yard!!!

http://www.rsbiomedical.com/images/Morels.JPG

Well
 

I hope they are safe for consumption. I myself am not a big mushroom fan.

"They look like rosted fetus brains....where is the Cianti, fst fst fst fst fst.

Thanks Claris for showing them to me"

Anabal

:D

We sure have vivid imaginations here don't we?;)

wow.. nice find. morels at stores are realllllllly expensive. Save them and dry them:)

Well, this has to be said. No one else will do it. But everyone must be thinking it. So I'll just go ahead and blurt it out:

"Gee, that must explain some of his posts here....."

:)

Ken300D

Geez this post shows how the world goes round?

Morels are one of the finest tasting mushrooms you can find in the US. Thanks for sharing your ignorance.



Quick funny little story. Back in the School daze I had a buddy that owned a Vietnamese pot bellied pig. We tried to train him to find morels but he always ate them before we could catch up, but he always put us in the proximity to more of these tasty little treats.

We had Wild Turkey breast with morel sauce for dinner tonight. What a treat!

I had said alot of bad (good) things about this comment but have dicided to post this insted.

Re: Easy Now
 

What are you talking about?:D

My mouth is watering:)

Since I have a nice batch of grey and black Morels which are more solid than the white Morels, I think I am going to dehydrate a batch and serve them this fall with the first duck's harvested. Right now I'm thinking Wood Duck Breast with Morels, Wild Minnesota Rice with Morels and Asparagus with Morels.

Yes. I work hard to share my personal ignorance. Look, over 1200 posts. I am trying as hard as I can!

:)

Ken300D

Yum! One advantage of living in the boonies! :D Now I'll be really pissed off if you also have wild berries in your backyard!

I must be ignorant too, because I have never heard of morels. Maybe it's a regional thing... portabello mushrooms are big here (great on a burger).

Lucky guy!!!
 

I'm a sous chef at a very high end restaurant in the Napa Valley. I love these mushrooms. We generally pay about $13 a pound. However, at some of the local grocery stores I've seen them charge $39 for a half pound! Out here, we get to pick chanterelles, black trumpets and huge porcini mushrooms at the Sonoma coast during the fall. In California, morels are found in the Sierras, but from what I've heard you really have to know where to look. These mushrooms may sound expensive but in 2000 and 2001 we were paying up to $2600 a pound for Italian white truffles!!! After the supplement charge on the menu ($75) we barely broke even.

We have a rasberry patch about 1 acre in size lots of blueberrys too.



You dont need to try, like morels I am sure it comes naturally.