Anyone into 'shrooms??

[Andrew Sacco]

I joined the local mycological club and hope to learn to not die eating wild mushrooms. I was given a Hen of the Woods years ago by an acquaintance and cooked it with wine and grouse breasts and told myself, "I'm gonna do that someday." So hopefully virus notwithstanding I'm going to learn this year. I don't trust me and a book on this one!

[Harold Lee Pickens]

A worthy endeavor for sure. My success rate finding morels in the spring is not good.

[Andrew Sacco]

The only thing I have going for me is stamina to walk and keep looking so I hope that helps.

[John Marscher]

Doesn't get much better than chanterelles in the lowcountry. Picked these while waiting on a deer at Cheeha Combahee.
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[Andrew Sacco]

Wow. Those look great! I love cooking. So if I can shoot a grouse with a Parker and cook it with mushrooms I pick I’m going to pretty much buy everyone a drink on this forum.

[Phillip Carr]

This is a book you might like 1000 pages. Includes colored pictures in helping to I’d.

[Andrew Sacco]

Many thanks! I'll get the book and hope the club meets this year.

[Breck Gorman]

Try the Chanterelle mushroom soup recipe on the Hanks Shaw Hunter-Angler-Gardener-Cook website. It is fantastic.
Love a good summer rainy day, because I will be in the woods gathering chanterelles the next day.

[Andrew Sacco]

Try the Chanterelle mushroom soup recipe on the Hanks Shaw Hunter-Angler-Gardener-Cook website. It is fantastic.
Love a good summer rainy day, because I will be in the woods gathering chanterelles the next day.

One of my favorite wild game chefs. His stuff is consistently good, but a little to Mexican heavy for my tastes. Only about one out of ten of his email recipes are not Mexican influenced. His books are awesome. I really hope I can learn something because I can think of nothing better than marrying what you pick with what you shoot or catch.

[Mike Koneski]

Andy, I love wild shrooms too. Been picking morels for years. Recently just got some chanterells on the gamelands. I have found "spongies" (boletes) here too. I keep my eyes open for hen of the woods but haven't run across them. We do have "popenkes" (honey mushrooms) which are very very good too. Nothing like venison stroganoff with morels!! If you have any info on the myco club near you let me know. I always prefer hands on ID from experienced mycologists over comparing pics in a book.

[Andrew Sacco]

Awesome Mike! I’ll get you info. Apparently they do field trips and then cook and beer is involved. I’ll see you this week to renew my membership and shoot! The club is like $15 a year

[CraigThompson]

You say “shrooms” and my first thought are the ones that are hallucinogenic lols ! Morels are hunted by many in central VA almost religiously , sorry to say I never developed a taste for them .

[CraigThompson]

When I did the steam show circuit in VA , NC , MD and PA there was one guy that used to help me some with my Frick , he was a dairy farmer / mushroom grower . Back then he’d bring big schatakis a small frying pan and a stick of butter . Sit the pan on top my boiler and cook the mushrooms and we’d eat them with fresh cucumbers and tomatoes . Pretty tastey as well !

[Andrew Sacco]

You say “shrooms” and my first thought are the ones that are hallucinogenic lols ! Morels are hunted by many in central VA almost religiously , sorry to say I never developed a taste for them .

I LOVE non hallucinogenic mushrooms : )

[CraigThompson]

I LOVE non hallucinogenic mushrooms : )

Never said I was a fan of the ones that are . But I'm of the correct age to have been growing up when people my age were big into "shrooms" and yes I mean the type that would make you take a trip and never leave the farm :rotf:

[CraigThompson]

A worthy endeavor for sure. My success rate finding morels in the spring is not good.

I hear you !

I went out behind my house one day looking for them just for the heck of it and looked for about two hours finding perhaps six .

A friend that loves them came out to try his luck just as I got back to the house . He stayed out perhaps an hour and came back with enough to fill a five gallon bucket .

[Joe Dreisch]

......cooked over a campfire in bacon grease. Sleep in a tent, hunt spring gobbler 'til noon, trout fish the afternoon with a side of morel hunting...... Lord, those were the days!!!!!!!

[Loren A Wilcox]

I picked about 2 pounds last week in Northern Michigan. Its been to cold to get a good batch. I use to get bags before the ash trees died. Cooked with wild rice and a grouse or two will make your taste buds slap the roof of your mouth.

[Mills Morrison]

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[Henry Verri]

Harvested some morels two weeks ago. They are a true tasty treat with a steak or bird... and a fine wine!

[Mills Morrison]

That is something I want to get into. Several friends hunt them and love them.

[Keith Sirmans]

Mills go to the oak bottoms and look around the palmettos for the chanterelles. If you have access to pecan groves take a dog and you will find truffles in our area

[Frank Srebro]

Walking our pup yesterday and I can across this. The picture doesn't do justice but the mushroom (?) is about the size of a volleyball. Can anyone identify?

[Daryl Corona]

Looks like a chanterelle Frank but I'm not certain.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Does it taste like chicken?

[Mike Koneski]

Looks like a chanterelle Frank but I'm not certain.

I’m not picking shrooms with you!!!

[Frank Srebro]

I’m not picking shrooms with you!!!

Two years back I gave my friend Mike an education on "popinkies" (honey mushrooms). There's a stump nearby his station #3 on the main course that was absolutely loaded with them. Once you see and smell them there's no mistaking the specie ...... wash in cold water, boil for a couple of minutes and then slow fry in butter and chopped onion. They're only wild mushroom I absolutely know is edible as taught to me by my Dad and uncles. I also have fond memories of my Babci (grandmother) drying them while strung on white store string behind her coal stove. A handful rehydrated in any kind of soup make for a welcome taste treat. I always have a bag with me when hunting grouse in the earlier part of the season here in PA. No telling when you come across them and especially so in briars, logged off areas and on decaying stumps. Clipped as low as possible with a hunting knife, cull any showing brown or bug holes in the stem, and then into the bag. :)

Still no positive ID of the clump in the pic I posted yesterday?

[Andrew Sacco]

Two years back I gave my friend Mike an education on "popinkies" (honey mushrooms). There's a stump nearby his station #3 on the main course that was absolutely loaded with them. Once you see and smell them there's no mistaking the specie ...... wash in cold water, boil for a couple of minutes and then slow fry in butter and chopped onion. The only wild mushroom I absolutely know is edible as taught to me by my Dad and uncles. I also have fond memories of my Babci (grandmother) drying them while strung on white store string behind her coal stove. A handful rehydrated in any kind of soup make for a welcome taste treat. I always have a bag with me when hunting grouse in the earlier part of the grouse season here in PA. No telling when you come across them and especially so in briars, logged off areas and on decaying stumps. Clipped as low as possible with a hunting knife, cull any showing brown or bug holes in the stem, and then into the bag. :)

Still no positive ID of the clump in the pic I posted yesterday?

Frank, Station 3, the stump? Thank God no man would ever relieve himself there...

[Mike Koneski]

Frank, looks like a sheepshead/hen-of-the-woods.

[Mills Morrison]

Frank, looks like a sheepshead/hen-of-the-woods.

One way to find out