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Are these mushrooms edible?
I hope so, I just ate them........ Buuuuuurp.
Just kidding, I'm pretty sure they are oyster mushrooms, but I'm going to check with a mushroom site before I cook them up.
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05/29/11, 08:16 PM
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Well, you found one more than I did.... Never found morels here, but I keep looking. Yep, on a log. Slight smell of anise. I could smell more, but danged if I could find them.
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05/29/11, 08:20 PM
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If not you won't make the same mistake twice. LOL!
We supposedly have Oyster mushrooms all over our woods. I don't know how to identify them though so... they just rot out there along with all the other mushrooms. I need a field guide to come teach me.
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05/29/11, 11:03 PM
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You better send them down to me and let me check them out for you!
Yep, you found oyster mushrooms. These are very delicious. My wife and I bought a bunch of oyster mushroom spores to try and grow our own.
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05/30/11, 12:27 AM
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Never tasted a morel, but my DS (in Crow Wing County) says he has some growing in his yard!
I may be taking a road trip!
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05/30/11, 06:39 AM
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I was at our grocery store on Wednesday. They had morels for sale. Guess how much. ($59/lb!)
Yes, I'd agree with WIHH...these are most likely oysters, but I'd get an expert's opinion first.
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05/30/11, 09:06 AM
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Well, we are still in the mortal coil, they must be OK ...... 
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05/30/11, 09:44 AM
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Well, I've always been interested in growing mushrooms. It just seems there is so very much to it that I have been discouraged. 
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05/30/11, 10:18 AM
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"Start Mushrooming" by Stan Tekiela & Karen Shanberg says of oysters:
1. white gills like the deadly amanita but also look for---
2. doesn't grow from a cup
3. doesn't have a ring around its stem
4. doesn't have white spores
It looks like I'm a day late; glad you're ok and enjoyed your meal!
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05/30/11, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by stamphappy
"Start Mushrooming" by Stan Tekiela & Karen Shanberg says of oysters:
1. white gills like the deadly amanita but also look for---
2. doesn't grow from a cup
3. doesn't have a ring around its stem
4. doesn't have white spores
It looks like I'm a day late; glad you're ok and enjoyed your meal!
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I was really pretty confident eating them. I've had them before, years ago. I have my own book and also researched them online. Everything I found confirmed that they were safe.
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05/30/11, 11:30 AM
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Nope, I got lucky. Either I caught them early enough, or they are not that common here. I have seen them before though.
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SO--WHAT did you make with them????
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05/30/11, 11:33 AM
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SO--WHAT did you make with them????
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Dipped them in egg and milk, rolled them in masa (corn meal), and fried them.
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I was really pretty confident eating them. I've had them before, years ago. I have my own book and also researched them online. Everything I found confirmed that they were safe.
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I use to bring Oyster mushrooms home every fall when out deer hunting with bow & arrow. I would carry along a backpack and sometimes I would find enough Oysters to fill it full. If I could find plenty I would dehydrate a lot of them and store them in ziplock bags and eat on them all winter long. I was better at finding oyster mushrooms then at finding morels.
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I've not found them in the fall, I always find them this time of year.
I like to dice them up and stew for a few minutes in a little butter and can them. I also dry them.
DH made me a tool for harvesting them. Most times they grow on "populus" trees (poplar) and they will be very high up. He took a metal spatula and inserted the handle into a long dowel. I use it to slice them off the trees above arm's reach.
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