Posted on 04/20/2020 4:13:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Another recipe from your cookbook?? LOL!
Yummy. I remember many times of my youth when we lived in Pennsylvania and my dad would bring morels home and fry them up. They were the closest I came to gourmet food as a child.
When going out for morels, he always insisted that they be carried in one of those red net bags that oranges come in. I guess the idea was that some of the morels’ spores would fall out as he walked through the woods and provide for future growths.
Oh yeah! Flour, butter and mushrooms in a cast iron skillet.....a LARGE skillet.
“...throngs of probing Hoosiers...”
The stuff of nightmares.
We use butter, eggs and Ritz crackers. Yum!
Funny you posted this. Last year, I found my first morel in early May, and only one. A friend of mine had often talked about how she and her husband loved them. I told her she could come over to our property and show me how to find them.
Fast forward to Saturday, 2 days ago. On a hike on the back of our property to see how many trees had fallen this year, I was surprised to find a morel right there on our path. I told my husband to stop in his tracks, and pointed to the ground. I said, “just like deer, when there’s one, there could be more!” I saw 7 or 8.
I decided I would go back with a sharp knife to harvest them a few hours later. I spent about an hour looking all over that spot and a few places nearby, I harvested nearly 3 dozen.
Just wow!
I soaked them in hot salted water for a few minutes, then rinsed and dried on a rack with paper towels. Then cut them in half, salted and peppered, and sautéed in freshly minced garlic and butter.
AMAZING! This was our first time harvesting and cooking with morels. It was so satisfying! The best mushrooms I’ve ever eaten! Like steak! Mmm! Oh, and I didn’t call my friend since we are distancing. She and her husband are in their early 80s. Hopefully we can do this together next year. Or maybe not.
Morels have a hollow stem. When you cut them with a knife, it’s all hollow there.
I haven’t seen the false morels, but I understand that the stems are fibrous, among other differences.
We went mushroom picking in the woods of central PA when I was a kid. My dad knew what to look for - I wouldn’t trust anything I picked today.
Once we found a huge sheepshead mushroom - took it to Grandma and you would have thought we were giving her a pot of gold.
Psilocybe Cubensis?
Sheepshead mushrooms, hen of the woods, maitake mushrooms, good as gold - delicious, nutritious, and medicinal
Suate in butter or garlic and butter, amazing eaten that way alone, or put in chicken noodle soup, or any soup or sauce...
Some companies grow them hydroponically, so sometimes you can find them in grocery stores, like International Grocery in St. Louis, where they are alot cheaper than most stores, and available all year long, not just in the fall.
Schnucks and the Co-op have them in Carbondale IL...
Morells—my Dad loved them and used to get them when he was out in the woods. He loved hunting. We had all sorts of meats from deer, turkey, squirrels, frog legs, quail, catfish etc.
He was either fishing or hunting every weekend. He hunted with gun and bow and arrow. I think we have a factory that processes them in a nearby town. Not sure where they go from there-I’ve never seen them in our stores.
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