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Post by Mumsey on May 2, 2015 17:13:40 GMT -5
They are popping in Iowa already, a little early. With rains this week and higher humidity it is forecast to be a bumper crop. I don't have time to hunt them myself. Used to as a kid, they were plentiful in the private woods we had access to. But that area has turned in to a county park and a private housing development. It's outrageous what people charge for them. $25/lb. There are even some people in Iowa taking orders, these are people who go to the far southern part of the state and in to Missouri to hunt them.
I can't decide if this price is outrageous or not. Sometimes it's tough finding them. And there are the ticks, etc. to deal with. And people drive lots of miles to get them. One has to be experienced and know what to look for, they grow around certain things, and at certain times. The smaller gray ones appear first, followed by the large brown ones.
They do give fond memories. Mom always fried them up with scrambled eggs. If we happened to be butchering a cow, she would add beef brains to the mix. Unheard of these days. Yummm, I can taste it in my mind!
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Post by binnylou on May 2, 2015 17:18:26 GMT -5
There is nothing like the taste of morels....floured and sauteed in butter till crispy brown. I see them selling on FB for 20 to 40 dollars per pound. No hunting or eating for me this year, unless Neighbor Dave takes pity on me and brings me some, like last year. Yummm..
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Post by brownrexx on May 2, 2015 18:21:05 GMT -5
I have never tried morels but I would like to. I'll skip the beef brains though.
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Post by OregonRed on May 3, 2015 8:41:49 GMT -5
one of the CG gardeners had some growing under/around the cardboard they had laid down!
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Post by binnylou on May 3, 2015 9:06:50 GMT -5
one of the CG gardeners had some growing under/around the cardboard they had laid down! You can find them in the strangest places...years ago, about the time that Dutch Elm disease had done its thing with all of the Elm trees, it was said that you could find them at the base of the dead Elm trees. I've found them in the evergreen windbreak...out in open grassy areas. Sometimes you just have to stand and look around.I could walk right past them and my mother in law would stop and pick some from where I had just passed through. Finding them is probably more fun than digging sweet potatoes
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Post by tbird on May 6, 2015 8:32:19 GMT -5
are they of a shape without a poisonous lookalike? I assume if kids hunt them?
I remember I think a youtube of someone seeding an area between a couple of trees in their yard with - I beleive, morel mushrooms. They were going to have to wait a year or two to see if it worked...
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Post by OregonRed on May 6, 2015 12:07:08 GMT -5
these are the pics I took of them
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