• Morels

    From JIM WELLER@1:135/392 to SHAWN HIGHFIELD on Friday, April 29, 2022 20:38:00
    Quoting Shawn Highfield to Dave Drum <=-

    The only ones I 100% can identify are the morels, so those are the
    ones we hunt for each spring.

    They are almost foolproof.

    They are most abundant the first year after a forest fire; they love
    feeding off of dead and dieing jack pine tree roots. We had a major
    (over 300,000 acres) forest fire here near the city (50 miles away)
    22 years ago that came right up to the edge of the highway, so the
    burned area was easy to access the next year. There were millions of
    morels all in plain sight as nothing else was growing back yet.
    Hundreds of professional pickers and dozens of buyers flooded the
    place but they couldn't collect even 1% of what was available.
    Roslind and I picked buckets of them in a single Sunday afternoon.
    Neekha was 7 months old and came along in a backpack. I remember she
    got bit by a horse fly right on the top of her head which made her
    cry. When another one approached her she balled up her little fists
    and tried to punch it right out of the air.

    Finally, getting to the point, we returned the next year, so she was
    19 months old and walking. She had a little basket and was
    collecting morels herself. Just the day before I had shown her pictures
    of false morels, I spotted a false morel and asked her if we should
    pick it. She was emphatic, "No! Toadstool! Poison!" and she stomped
    it flat with her little boots. So yeah, pretty much foolproof.


    MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

    Title: Landon Cook's Puffball Miso Soup
    Categories: Wild, Mushrooms, Soups
    Yield: 4 Servings

    1 c Cubed puffball mushroom
    3 c Water
    3 sm Carrots, peeled and sliced
    1/2 lg Onion, thinly sliced
    2 tb Heaping miso
    1 tb Peanut oil
    1 tb Sesame oil
    1 pn Wakame flakes
    Soy sauce to taste

    Bring water to boil in pot and add carrots plus inner rings of
    sliced onion. Continue to simmer, covered.

    Heat oil in pan. Add mushrooms. Chop remaining onions and add to
    pan. Carefully saute on medium-high so that cubed mushrooms are
    lightly and evenly browned. Lower heat.

    When carrots are tender, stir in miso, then add wakame flakes and
    contents of saute pan to pot. Cook 2 more minutes and serve,
    seasoning with soy sauce.

    From: Landon Cook, Fat Of The Land Blog

    MMMMM

    Cheers

    Jim


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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452 to JIM WELLER on Saturday, April 30, 2022 12:35:54
    JIM WELLER wrote to SHAWN HIGHFIELD <=-

    They are almost foolproof.

    Almost!

    of false morels, I spotted a false morel and asked her if we should
    pick it. She was emphatic, "No! Toadstool! Poison!" and she stomped
    it flat with her little boots. So yeah, pretty much foolproof.

    That's a cute story Jim!

    Shawn

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