Does anybody like morels?

[purplepickup]

This time of year everything goes on the back burner for me while the morel mushrooms are out. I went up to my cabin last weekend for the opener of trout season. It's usually just a little early for morels but I checked a couple of my favorite spots and found a few. Hopefully this weekend I'll find more. For those of you that have never had them, you probably won't understand, but for us devout fungus lovers, these are the ultimate.









This was just a small batch I fried up to munch on while I cooked a steak in the woodstove. Then I cooked the rest and smothered the steak. Yum Yum!

[roadtrippin]

yum!!!

[AmyH]

I agree, Yummy!!!!! Tasty fungus!
Amy

[jeffwholmes]

I agree YUM, just wish I knew where to look for them, we Hillbilly’s like to eat ramps also.

How did the fishing go? My Daughter caught a nice Rainbow Brood in Feb. it weighed 8.39 lb.

I will post a picture later if you would like to see it, I can’t find it at the moment my computer crashed Monday and I’m just now getting it back up.


Jeff.

[Joseph]

If I don't find any, does that make me amorel?

Joseph

[Denny Unfried]

If I don't find any, does that make me amorel?

Joseph

Good one Joseph, started my day with a big grin

[jeffwholmes]

Purplepickup here is that Trout picture.





Jeff.

[purplepickup]

I agree YUM, just wish I knew where to look for them, we Hillbilly’s like to eat ramps also.

How did the fishing go? My Daughter caught a nice Rainbow Brood in Feb. it weighed 8.39 lb.
Jeff.

Wow Jeff, I'll bet you were as proud of her as she was to catch that one. That's a beauty! We get rainbows that big here but they are spawning in rivers from the great lakes in the spring and fall and we call them steelheads. I fish the small inland streams and mostly catch native brook trout...once in a while a brown trout. The brookies are usually pretty small. A 3 pounder is huge. Most are less than a pound.

You mentioned ramps. This is a picture I just snapped of Murf my dog running thru the woods. It's not a good picture, but all those green things are ramps. This particular woods has a lot of them. I've eaten them and they taste great but nobody will get around you for a long time because they really make you stink. Just walking thru this part of the woods you can smell the garlic/onion smell. We call them wild leeks here. Got any good recipes?

[jeffwholmes]

Oh yes I was very proud of her, it was a stocked fish as with most of the Trout here, but still a nice catch. We do have Native’s and some hold over though.
I’ve only been Trout fishing for a couple of years now, my Uncle got me started and my Wife and I love it, she is the real angler though. She would rather fish than eat.
My big thing is bow hunting, she has enjoyed going with me and hanging around in the trees, but she gets to do her own this year Santa left her a new bow under the tree this year.
Recipes? Naw usually just cut them up and fry them with the potatoes.
Haven’t ate any ramps for a few years now, my Wife wouldn’t touch them and if I cooked them at the station my partner would eat them, but I am afraid the other crews would kick us out of the station.
The Patients might complain about our unusual odor as well.

[jgalt]

Seeing those morels sure makes me jealous - I don't think they grow this far south. We do get oyster mushrooms, chantrelles, giant puffballs, parasol, and several other good varieties though.

I saw fresh morels in a store about 15 years ago. About $55 a pound if I remember - higher now I'd think.

Thanks for the pic of the ramps, I've wanted to try them - now I know what to look for!

There are sure a lot of wonderful foods out there for the picking, and you can't buy them even if you wanted to. Foraging and identifying new plants is one of the fun activities of camping.

Maybe a thread on fun wild food experiences?

[purplepickup]

I just got back from a few more days mushrooming at the cabin. I got a lot of mushrooms again but I thought I'd post a couple of pictures of the wild leeks (ramps) that Jeff was talking about. I picked some and put them in some fried potatoes for breakfast. They were really good.

Here's what they look like growing.


Here's what they look like when you dig them up.


And here's what they looked like after I rinsed them under the pump.