When I was a young girl my father was into
mushroom hunting g & we would forage for puffballs. We would take them home & my mom would sautee them. Great memory.
Being uninformed as to foraging, fearful of doing so for any type of fungi. For this fear it is more than probable a great many good tasting new things are never eaten. The closest I’ve come is seeing/hearing Ewell Gibbons. As to mushrooms, never acquired a taste for them until the ‘adult’ years. First battered and deep fried with a dip as a snack with an adult beverage. Then progressed to sauteed with butter. The other half has at last learned to best mushrooms purchased are the ‘closed’ kind because they are fresher. Never too old for an old dog to learn new tricks :-)
Do puffballs taste like normal mushrooms when sauteed? Would these be a plant found in Texas? Unfortunately, growing up as a child in the city there were few places to go in which to forage. Though we had relatives who did live on a farm nearby, they seldom spoke of the forage experience.