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I live out in the woods and had gone morel hunting a few times without success. I had heard so many stories about how good they were and i was getting frustrat
by jcims 6y ago
I live out in the woods and had gone morel hunting a few times without success. I had heard so many stories about how good they were and i was getting frustrated b/c it seemed like the perfect setting for them.
One day I was mowing my back yard and was stopped in my tracks by this beautiful morel standing proud right in the middle of my yard like it was placed there by God himself lol.
They are incredibly tasty.
Also highly recommend folks try those kits you’re talking about, they are really fun.
- saiya-jin 6y agoMorels here in Europe are priced insanely high, only a bit below black truffles. For a good reason I must say, if well prepared they taste properly awesome.
- medstrom 6y agoWell gosh, button mushrooms if well prepared, they taste properly awesome.
- Turing_Machine 6y agoMorels are an entirely different level of awesome, though. Try some and you'll see.
- hvidgaard 6y agoMushrooms in general is a very fleeting thing. For instance, when I take soil from the garden inside and use for planting it's not uncommon for a tiny mushroom to suddenly sprout, bloom, and wilt in less than a day.
- samstave 6y agoThat means you have good mycelium in your soil. The Mushroom is the actual mycelium network - that is the organism. The "mushroom" that you pick and eat is the fruit/sex-organ of the mycelium solely made to reproduce. The mycelium reproduces in a number of different stages, and can lay dormant for years. Genetic material is swapped beteen two different organisms. The males are called + and the females are called - When a + meets a - , they swap genetic material, which then flows through the mycelium until it fruits as a mushroom and that is what we pick and eat.
- jiggawatts 6y agoNow I need to know what Morel mushrooms taste like...
- jcims 6y agoThis isn’t helpful unless you can tie the word back to an experience but they have a lot of umami. It’s primarily what differentiates them from standard portabellos/button/cremini mushrooms.
- Loughla 6y agoIf you fry them they taste like a combination of delicious and heaven. Alternately - a fine stand in for fried morel mushrooms are fried pumpkin blossoms, if you would like to see what the flavor is like. I do not have a substitute for any other use for morels, though. They add their own, amazing flavor to any soup, stew, or other recipe. But definitely try fried pumpkin blossoms - that's what fried morel (which is also the best way to cook them) tastes like. Egg wash, cracker crumb breading, fry in butter. Amazing.
- mallomarmeasle 6y agoInterestingly,they are ascomycetes (like yeast)and not basidiomycetes (like most consumed mushrooms ). Their taste to me has more in common with brewer's yeast than "regular mushrooms". Meaty, savory, delicious! Time to get to the woods to hunt them.
- jcims 6y agoI'm so glad this post came up because I completely forget about it every year until summer.
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoYes quite frustrating I had morels pop up on my property once -- which I also noticed while mowing -- and then they never returned to the same spot. So delicious. I remember as a kid finding a large puffball mushroom in the woods near my house, and brought it home and my dad made a delicious stew with it. Every year I went back to the same area and never found one again.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoI don't trust my ability to discern poisonous from benign varieties so I just leave the all where they're at and let them finish out their days in peace.
- 01100011 6y agoYears ago, before I ever developed a taste for mushrooms, I cut down a eucalyptus in my yard. Next year I had a couple of Morels pop up through the gravel near the stump. Never saw them again, and I lived there another decade or so.