It has been unseasonably warm. And that brings fog...lots of fog. And that makes the mushrooms pop! These were in my Uncle's yard this morning... time to make a trip to the river and get more!
Yay! Oyster mushrooms are out!
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That would be great. I'm just not confident enough to harvest wild mushrooms. I was just down at the hunt club this past week and saw mushrooms, but not sure if they're edible...
I'm with you. The only one I know for sure is the lions mane, as I don't think there's one you could mistake for it. I love mushrooms so it's tough for me. I spend a ton of time metal detecting in the woods and I see soooo many mushrooms. I just don't need another hobby that could possibly kill me.
good thing about oyster mushrooms, they are easy to identify. and there are no poisonous look alikes. It's the first mushroom I started gathering years ago when my Uncle showed me how to find them.
in. pred
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you lucky dog you!!!!! i get most of mine along the river also. easy to see and cover ground/water. you can really get a bounty at times!!!
if you keep getting them try this. saute a handful in a skillet with some butter. when browned a lil add a splash of chicken broth and simmer it down(this extracts more flavor) until you have enough liquid to add to scrambled eggs. let that liquid cool a bit then do just that. mix up scrambled eggs with it and cook it in the pan with the mushrooms. it makes the egg take on the mushroom flavor! and the omelet option is done same way. this will make a true gourmet western omelet! i like to add onion n garlic powder along with salt n pepper for these egg dishes.
they are great tossed in the bag of stirfry veggies from wallyworld to!!!
or add them into a couple cans of cream mushroom soup. ti kick it up for lunch.
which brings to mind mushroom muffins. these dont last long after bringing them out at a party. sleeve of unsalted crackers, egg, a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup and your pre sauteed wild oysters chunked up. crush crackers and mix it all together. plop in buttered muffin tin and bake. can also cook as cakes in skillet, but you need the consistency just rite.
if you keep getting them try this. saute a handful in a skillet with some butter. when browned a lil add a splash of chicken broth and simmer it down(this extracts more flavor) until you have enough liquid to add to scrambled eggs. let that liquid cool a bit then do just that. mix up scrambled eggs with it and cook it in the pan with the mushrooms. it makes the egg take on the mushroom flavor! and the omelet option is done same way. this will make a true gourmet western omelet! i like to add onion n garlic powder along with salt n pepper for these egg dishes.
they are great tossed in the bag of stirfry veggies from wallyworld to!!!
or add them into a couple cans of cream mushroom soup. ti kick it up for lunch.
which brings to mind mushroom muffins. these dont last long after bringing them out at a party. sleeve of unsalted crackers, egg, a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup and your pre sauteed wild oysters chunked up. crush crackers and mix it all together. plop in buttered muffin tin and bake. can also cook as cakes in skillet, but you need the consistency just rite.
in. pred
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lol that maybe in taste. you should read up on how science is using them to cure these days!!! it is simply amazing what they are finding.
just 1 example: hippy "tripin shrooms" are being used, in micro doses, to treat Alzheimer's!!! and other shrooms hold cancer battling compounds! lots lots more too!
Our nephew and son-in-law both hate them, but it's a texture thing, not taste. They know that they'll have to pick them out when they eat here...
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Sweet! The best cream of mushroom soup I ever ate was my own. I didn't harvest them myself, there was a "going bad" sale at a vegetable stand/place. I learned quickly and made an awesome soup.
I DID get into mycology for a while when we moved to our forest here. Shrooms everywhere, I figured, "surely some of these are edible". I obsessed with shrooms for a few years. I would knock on the door of strangers and ask to harvest from their front yard as long as they hadn't put down any chemicals.
I regularly harvested puffballs on my property but Brain Puffballs always seemed to fruit on other people's property. They are so cool when you catch them at perfect timing. You can slice them like a loaf of bread, and bread them and make shroom parmigiana.
I dont do wild shrooms anymore, it was a passing thing for me, but man did I spend a lot of time and brainpower on that.
When I got in to shrooms for a while, not only did I buy the Audubon guide but joined the website "The Shroomery". It's more psylocibin-centric but there were many people there not only foraging regular edibles, but also growing their own at home. There was a dude on there with the handle "ToxicMan" that was an expert in Arizona, I think, that the hospitals would call him in when some fool ate Death Caps, etc. thinking they were "magic mushrooms"...I mean hey, they were right there in the cow dung, they had to be...right?
ToxicMan taught me so much, how to do bruise and spore print testing, etc.. One of the things I learned is there basically are no toxic puffballs. You just have to catch them as soon as they fruit otherwise insects infest them from the stem...you cant see them, so you always have to at least cut them in half to be sure there arent bugs inside...unless you want the extra protien! I used to bread and deep fry those a lot. First rule of thumb is NEVER eat wild shrooms raw.
Some of the most impressive shrooms are toxic. Amanitas bieng one of the most attractive.
I DID get into mycology for a while when we moved to our forest here. Shrooms everywhere, I figured, "surely some of these are edible". I obsessed with shrooms for a few years. I would knock on the door of strangers and ask to harvest from their front yard as long as they hadn't put down any chemicals.
I regularly harvested puffballs on my property but Brain Puffballs always seemed to fruit on other people's property. They are so cool when you catch them at perfect timing. You can slice them like a loaf of bread, and bread them and make shroom parmigiana.
I dont do wild shrooms anymore, it was a passing thing for me, but man did I spend a lot of time and brainpower on that.
I had a friend years ago like that. We had ordered subs (probably steak) and part way through eating it he jumps up and says, "there's fungus on this @%&*!#$ sandwich!". He looked like he was going to puke and threw the entire sandwich away! I was like "bro...you should seek counseling for that"...
My wife bought me a metal detector. Have yet to use it. I have stuff to do, it's hard for me to just wander around like that! But I WILL eventually get to it. We have an old wagon trail that runs through our forest. Gotta be some stuff alongside.
When I got in to shrooms for a while, not only did I buy the Audubon guide but joined the website "The Shroomery". It's more psylocibin-centric but there were many people there not only foraging regular edibles, but also growing their own at home. There was a dude on there with the handle "ToxicMan" that was an expert in Arizona, I think, that the hospitals would call him in when some fool ate Death Caps, etc. thinking they were "magic mushrooms"...I mean hey, they were right there in the cow dung, they had to be...right?
ToxicMan taught me so much, how to do bruise and spore print testing, etc.. One of the things I learned is there basically are no toxic puffballs. You just have to catch them as soon as they fruit otherwise insects infest them from the stem...you cant see them, so you always have to at least cut them in half to be sure there arent bugs inside...unless you want the extra protien! I used to bread and deep fry those a lot. First rule of thumb is NEVER eat wild shrooms raw.
Some of the most impressive shrooms are toxic. Amanitas bieng one of the most attractive.
It's a time waster for sure, and not for everyone. Lemme know when you do start if you have any questions. If you have a legit wagon trail there is a very high probability something cool to be found is waiting on you. I target civil war stuff.
It’s not unusual in Northwest Ohio on a couple above average January sunny days in a row to see some big oyster mushrooms on some cottonwood logs in the woods. It hasn’t happened this year yet, but it sure is a treat when it does. Those mushrooms look fantastic.
Along with some Avocados!! LOL!
*edit: never mind, I'm thinking of DRKsmoking...
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Nice. I love mushrooms as much as my wife does not.
Was at the local street fair last Sunday and a stand was all edible fungus.
I don't remember all they offered, but it was very pricey.
Was at the local street fair last Sunday and a stand was all edible fungus.
I don't remember all they offered, but it was very pricey.
I was watching BBC this afternoon and they were talking about spores that parasite on insects in the rain forest. I don't remember the family (each variety targets only a single insect) but my wife said they were using that to treat ailments.
It is ancient medicine in China. Cordyceps (I think they call it) only grows on one caterpillar high in the mountains during a short time of year...that is one that I know of...
Yep that's the genus (family) of fungus. Amazing the valuable things that Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) applies today. The bad things are the black market trade in items such as rhinoceros horn, snake and bear gall bladder that offer no medicinal value but result in the slaughter of endangered animals.
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