Mushrooms, Morel Less

[ozma914]

I went out hunting mushrooms, a spore-t even I could succeed at.

Kidding--I just stumbled across them by happy accident. (Literally stumbled across them, in one case.)

I hate regular mushrooms. They taste like a 50s horror movie. Still, I must admit that finding edible ones in the wild made my interest ... well ... mushroom a bit. And who doesn't want to have a little fun-gus in their life?

So, at my wife's urging (okay, she made me), I tried one. She fried it up, with a little butter, much the way I like everything cooked except for chocolate. (I like my chocolate covered with a nice thick layer of more chocolate.)

It tasted like pork. I'm not kidding. Unlike mushrooms I've tried in the past, which taste much like unripe raw rubber, these are much Morel tasty. (Now I'm wondering what raw rubber really tastes like.)  It's not a food I'd want every day, but it just goes to show you ... sometimes it's worth giving something new a try.

Before you ask, I was assured by the property owner that if I identified where I found these Morels, I'd end up pushing them up myself.

Comments

[angstchic]

Mushrooms are just unnatural to me. They freak me out.

[petzipellepingo]

Morels are worth a lot of money so telling where you found them would indeed get you buried in the same area.

[ozma914]

Generally I agree, and pretty much hate all other mushrooms. This had the advantage of tasting like pork rather than mushrooms, but I have to admit I still had problem looking at it before taking a bite!

[ozma914]

Yes, but according to my research they're not likely to show up in the same place twice, and even if they do it's usually not until four or five years have passed. Therefore, I'm going to let you in on the secret of where I found them:

Don't tell ...

My back yard.

I was delayed in getting the lawn mower around for the season, and when I finally did -- there they were, almost two dozen of them. I promised my wife I wouldn't tell, but as I said, I did some research into it. We have no idea how they ended up there, but the chances of seeing them again anytime soon are pretty slim, at least in a town lawn.

[petzipellepingo]

Humph! All I get in my yard are poisonous ones...

[ozma914]

Me too, before this--and all because I procrastinated! I might just wait until June to mow, next year.

[solanine]

so the morel of the story is...? I know you're a fungi and all, but wild mushroom hunting sounds dangerous.

[ozma914]

Not to worry: I have my Morel Compass to guide me.