When spring weather starts to warm our skin, mushroom lovers thoughts turn to hunting the elusive morel mushroom. The combination of day and night temperatures and rainfall have to be just right for them to emerge. It is so easy to totally miss the harvest if you don’t look at the right time. Many years we have come back home empty handed.
Not this year!
My husband and I and my son and his wife and kids went hunting on my neighbor’s land. (with permission) We found a total of approximately 350 morels! That is more than we have ever found before!
Here is a shot of them all. The banana is for size reference. (My son’s idea.) He found the most with the help of my four year old grandson who has very sharp eyes and is closer to the ground.
We cooked up some for dinner sautéed in butter with a little garlic and seasoning. Delicious! The rest they will dehydrate to store them.
Morels are one of the easiest mushrooms to identify and are often the first experience many people have with foraging mushrooms. Then they are hooked.
As usual here is my mushroom disclaimer:
THIS POST IS NOT INTENDED FOR FORAGING PURPOSES AND TO USE IT FOR THOSE PURPOSES WOULD BE DANGEROUS. DO NOT HUNT WILD MUSHROOMS WITHOUT RELYING ON A COMBINATION OF PROFESSIONAL FIELD GUIDES, IN PERSON PROFESSIONAL GUIDANCE, OR IN PERSON GUIDANCE BY SOMEONE TRUSTWORTHY WHO HAS COPIOUS LOCAL, SPECIALIZED MUSHROOM HUNTING EXPERIENCE. FAILURE TO DO SO CAN RESULT IN GRIEVOUS PERSONAL HARM OR DEATH.
Thank you to @dber for this thorough mushroom warning.
Thanks for stopping by Stillwaters Farm!
