Anyone have any experience with morels?

Oggie · #21 05/19/09, 08:40 AM

Y'all just need to stop. It's 8:30 in the morning. I'm on Weight Watchers and have a thinly-spread peanut butter sandwich packed for lunch and enough carrots and celery to choke a decent-size rabbit.

Now, I'm thinking of morels sauteed with a few onions and butter, finished with heavy cream and spooned over homemade pasta.

It's going to be a long day.

Lilandra · #22 05/19/09, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Oggie

Y'all just need to stop. It's 8:30 in the morning. I'm on Weight Watchers and have a thinly-spread peanut butter sandwich packed for lunch and enough carrots and celery to choke a decent-size rabbit.

Now, I'm thinking of morels sauteed with a few onions and butter, finished with heavy cream and spooned over homemade pasta.

It's going to be a long day.

how about this instead of the heavy cream & pasta -
sauted with chinese long beans, matchstick carrots, baby corn, garlic or other favorite vegis in a light olive oil
served on top of brown rice with almond slivers

NoClue · #23 05/19/09, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by rambler

I think they come from within, but are instilled by family, and your religious faith. It is easier to get them from others with strong ones, and caring about others.

Huh? Oh, the other spelling, the mushrooms? Ah.....

Seems they like shady hardwood forset areas, grow on dead wood like older stumps or trunks.

There is a moral concern. Couple days ago we were in a resturant & a fella was talking to his friends, about pretending to turkey hunt but really looking for mushrooms. Gathered a big bag full, then got his gun back just in time for the land owner to come along & ask what he was up to - eh, turkey hunting. The land owner went off with his friend to collect mushrooms, and didn't find any. A very old tom turkey showed up, & the fella had to shoot it to keep up his story, so he ended up with a bird too tough to cook.

Yesterday I was in a grocery store & heard kinda sorta much the same story - couple tramping over everyone elese's properties without permission looking for mushrooms and so proud of their finds.

See morels on Craig's list for $35 a pound. so, they are a real product, of real value.

Hum. Reading the above replies, I infer a lot of you are not on your own property when looking for the mushrooms either?

It seems there is quite a moral issue with harvesting morels. Something to think on.

--->Paul

I was on my father-in-law's land, and he was a couple of trees down doing the same thing I was.

AJ Williams · #24 05/19/09, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Oggie

Y'all just need to stop. It's 8:30 in the morning. I'm on Weight Watchers and have a thinly-spread peanut butter sandwich packed for lunch and enough carrots and celery to choke a decent-size rabbit.

Now, I'm thinking of morels sauteed with a few onions and butter, finished with heavy cream and spooned over homemade pasta.

It's going to be a long day.

I kinda thought you'd make a joke about "morals". WOW a first..you was serious!

insocal · #25 05/19/09, 01:02 PM

My grandfather used to go down along the Republican River in south central Nebraska, down in the trees, and pick morels. He knew right where to go because he grew up there and spent a lot of his adult life there, too. He had a secret spot where they could be reliably found, and he wouldn't tell anybody.

Beaten egg, flour/cornmeal, panfried. Died-and-gone-to-heaven good.

IowaLez · #26 05/19/09, 03:58 PM

Morels seem to be all over the wooded areas of NE Iowa. Here people find them near Alder trees. You can buy outdoor morel kits, alder chips, alder sawdust, and morel starter inoculant. We bought a pound of them in Prairie du Chein for $14/lb, a real steal. Other places are charging $25 or more.