I also ran across a patch of decent sized elephant ears. These things are delicious, but they're not really safe to eat so I just took a picture.
Posted on 04/25/2014 12:24:10 PM PDT by greeneyes
I also ran across a patch of decent sized elephant ears. These things are delicious, but they're not really safe to eat so I just took a picture.
Thanks.
She put off things until she could no longer put them off. With deductibles, it is best to keep going once you get it paid for the year. She is not one bit hesitant about getting cut on. Not me! I’m skeered!
Just WOW !
I typed in Morels and MO on a search, and saw lots of morel spotters, pics, and morel message boards. One pic looked like the whole bed of his pickup truck was covered.
Do you dry them? How do you preserve them?
Most years it’s hard to find enough to worry about preservation, but morels can be dehydrated or frozen, depending on how you want to use them later.
Dehydration is good for use in soups and sauces.
Freezing is good if you want to fry, saute, or mix into your scrambled eggs. Assuming you started with fresh morels, and don’t let them freezer burn, it’s almost impossible to distinguish frozen from fresh.
Interesting, thx, I'm glad I asked. I guess I thought freezing them would make the tops turn to black looking mush.
If you let them thaw all the way out before you cook them they can get a bit mushy, especially if they weren’t super fresh when picked.
Have your skillet ready, take a frozen shroom out, dip in cold water, dip in flour/crumbs/whatever you like and toss it into the hot grease.
To do the freezing I use a non-stick cookie sheet, spray with Pam or rub on a light coating of olive oil, arrange shrooms so that they’re not touching one another and put in the freezer overnight. Gallon ice cream buckets are really just right to store them. Arrange in single layer, wax paper on top, then the next layer, repeat as needed. If you let them snuggle up they will stick together over time and you won’t be able to remove them individually for cooking.
That’s a pretty good batch you have there. Thanks for the pics.
I’m with you! Don’t like the knife or anything that involves needles. Well, I don’t like pills either.LOL
I am grumpy today. May is here and no sun and it’s 50 degrees outdoors, and about 69 degrees indoors. So, I am continuting to plant stuff according to schedule, except planting indoors instead of outside.
It’s 68 here, 16% humidity, sunny, breezy, a really nice day outside.
I don’t mind the needles or pills, just drs and knives.
A bit behind on replies. Been busy. It has been decades since geometry class. It shows in the coop. I had the top angle at 60°, the standard. But! I designed mine taller and a foot wider and did not recalculate the angle.
I have not remeasured, but the coop is almost 2 feet wider than the intended 6’ and not as tall as preferred inside, yet I retained important floor space. Buff Orpingtons are a large breed, considered “good eatin’ “ around here, even if a few years old. They give a descent amount of eggs, handle very cold climates without need for heat and tend to be docile enough to handle living in a coop and run when one has a wider array of predators than most areas.
I do go on... The coop most likely will be stationary. A-frame styles are ideal in snow areas, so that part is fine. We are going to make a chicken tractor-box on wheels for taking them out to the meadow. I am already training them to rush to the side of the brooder with a can filled with “chicken crack”. It will ease getting them to go through the various pen doors with some ease. Chickens are gluttons.
I will post some photos soon? Want my list of mistakes?
My garden is almost all sown, except for the spots for tomatoes and peppers. The tobacco (in the little portable greenhouse stuffed in our tiny garage), goes out in the huge area in the meadow, and surrounds the garden boxes. Moose, elk and deer do not care for tobacco. It makes a useful living fence. I also string heavy fishing-line on the t-posts that surround the area at about 6”, mid-way and the top. It is a trick I read about that has worked for 5 years. Deer bump into the “ invisible” fence, freak and go somewhere else. The downside was a hummingbird getting permanently clocked by the line. I moved feeders away from the area.
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