shrooms

[agentl074]

Cut the stems - dont pull them - that way they will grow back.

 

[RachelMarie]

I plan on going out on Monday to see what I can find *fingers crossed*! I usually soak them in salt water for atleast 12 hours and the flour them (with secret spices lol) and fry 'em up. BEST thing....No one in my family, besides me, likes them...so I get them all to myself. CHA CHING!

 

[spainy79]

BEST thing....No one in my family, besides me, likes them...so I get them all to myself. CHA CHING!

Lucky you! Everyone in my family loves them.

 

[Roadie]

OK, so I am thinking about looking for some morels. I have never hunted mushrooms before, so I wanted your opinions. I read onlinethat an edible morel is hollow, and the poisonous is not. Is that correct?

..or, would a novice be better off (safer) just not doing it, lol.

 

[clt46910]

Years back a girl I dated had a Dad that owned a tree company. He had part of it in Kentucky. He would go down there in a motorcamper and come back with a couple bushel baskets of Morels. Some land he owned there. He would call me from Indy and let me know to be at his place in a couple hours. His wife and his daughter (my girlfriend at the time) would wash and pan fried them in butter while him and I sit at the table drinking beer and eating mushrooms until we was near sick...LOL Great memories of those times.

 

[bwframe]

Fooey. Never enough time for everything. As usual, shrooms are coming at the same time as taxes, garden, and crappies. Combine that with an upswing in work and there is little or no time for hunting.

I'd be in the market for a couple pounds @ say $25 per, if anyone had freshly picked morrels.

 

[tackleberry65]

I've never had mushrooms from Indiana... do they sell them?

Yeah, but most of the fun is stomping around in the woods looking for them yourself. I went last weekend and didn't find a one. I think it was still a little early in Putnam County. Hopefully this weekend.

 

[agentl074]

Poisonous (false morel)

Good morel

Edible Mushrooms







-Courtesy of MDC online -

False Morels (Helvella and Gyromitra spp.)

Helvella sp. Gyromitra caroliniana

-Paraphrased from MDC online -

Monomethyl hydrazine (MMH) - poison in mushroom - causes diarrhea, vomiting and severe headaches, and occasionally it can be fatal.

False morels differ from true morels in two obvious ways:

1. The cap surface has lobes, folds, flaps or wrinkles, but it does not have pits and ridges like a true morel. You might say their caps bulge outward instead of being pitted inward.
2. The bottom edge of the cap of a false morel hangs free around the stem, like a skirt. On true morels, the bottom edge of the cap is attached to the stem (see page 4).

False morels are found in spring, summer and fall, on the ground in woodlands.
Note: Because these mushrooms have definitely caused deaths, we cannot recommend that you eat them. If you nevertheless choose to do so, they should be thoroughly cooked in a well-ventilated room, since MMH is driven off by heat. (MDC online, 2009)

 

[agentl074]

OK, so I am thinking about looking for some morels. I have never hunted mushrooms before, so I wanted your opinions. I read onlinethat an edible morel is hollow, and the poisonous is not. Is that correct?

..or, would a novice be better off (safer) just not doing it, lol.

If it looks like a sponge = GOOD

Does not look like a sponge = BAD

 

[Roadie]

Thank you! I might have to go looking for some 'shrooms. If I find any, I will post pics so I don't kill myself. lol

 

[El Cazador]

This weekend, with the rain now, then heat Thursday and Friday, ought to be mushroom heaven. Perfect weather, and a good winter for the spores. I'm blocking off Sunday for a lot of walking...

 

[joshuamckee]

Mushroom

I found this one in a gravel driveway in Franklin.That is a 270 shell next to it.

 

[joshuamckee]

What part of Indiana did you find these? Southern?

I found them in Franklin.

 

[FordMan08]

I found this one in a gravel driveway in Franklin.That is a 270 shell next to it.

Stay out of my driveway dick!

 

[joshuamckee]

HA HA

It was not in FordMan08s driveway.It was in the driveway of a house i owned a couple of years ago that got wiped out by the flood.