Morel time!
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Post your region, tips, preservation techniques, recipes, questions and or pictures of your finds. This year I found a total of around 15 lbs over the last week (only 11 was weighed, found in just one small area and split with a partner). We had lots of rain in southeast Michigan, and while not as many warm days, a recent few caused quite a boom in morels. I froze most of mine after slicing, rinsing, and coating with flower. Others were cooked fresh with garlic mustard, ramps and butter. Pic related is 5/9/16
2/? Also on 5/9/16 found during a short break at the state park I work at (where all were found)
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Found yesterday on 5/13/16
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Some big ones from a bag found on 5/11/16
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A nice patch amongst brambles and creeper vines; low thick ground cover
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Some bags of frozen morels after the first few finds
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One of the false morels found in a different area. Reddish in color.
A good imaemge found for another type of false morel we found
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A false morel we found near true morels. Same as pic above, cap is connected to stalk at the top of cap, the cap hangs down like an umbrella similar to many common mushrooms. Cap color is darker, stalks were much longer and thinner than true morels and had a bumpy or even fuzzy texture
Southern Indiana here, out season is pretty done.
Was decent but not on the high end of yield. Think it was because we had too many cold nights. But I did find a good many one morning when there was frost on the ground so I dunno. Morels are hard to figure.
You people must be shipping them down here because all the restaurants and high end grocery stores have them for sale.
SW magical mitten, didn't see squat but got other ones that are just fine eat'n
>>765610
Wut do you do with all of them? Sell em or eat them youself?
Is the money worth it to do it as more than just a pure hobby?
>>765777
It is a hobby, I eat them and have shared a few freezer bags with friends and co workers.
>>765910
And its also great fun to look for them
>>765766
What other mushrooms do you mean?
>>765915
cooked up they don't taste anything like they smell
>>765913
That's what I figured. Just wondered if there were people who did it solely for the money and if the time was worth it.
>>765927
Dryad's Saddle, Pheasant Back, Hawks Wing
they should smell like watermelon rind or cucumber, but have pretty good mushroom taste when cooked
you have to get them fairly small, no bigger than a fist or so, or they will be like eating a shoe...if you can easily cut through them, they're good....if it feels at all tough, just slice off parts around the outer edge and toss the rest
you can dry the tough stuff and grind them into powder, but I haven't tasted it that way yet
>>765929
Many thanks.
>>765777
These things sell like hot cakes at the mushroom festival. Like $25 a pound and like $150 a dry pound.
http://mountainmushroomfestival.org
Looks shitty but its a pretty good time. Lots of great food
>>765610
lel, anyone here from Fort Mac?
