Winner winner chicken dinner for this #mushroommonday
I wasn't expecting to find chicken of the woods this early in September.
It was a typical walk in the forest with my daughter trying to reduce her energy so she can finally sleep through the night. She kept saying mushrooms mushrooms!
I was focusing on the nice blue sky through the forest. Then I decided to take a look to see if she actually found any mushrooms.
Off in the distance I spotted bright orange on a burnt dead tree. Large batches of Chicken of the Woods. We got stickers bushwacking it through the Virginia stick weed but it was worth it.
Sadly the big chunks were already too tough. We did find enough soft chunks for a meal though. This particular chicken was quite thin and flat, there are at least three different types of chicken of the woods that grow here and they are all edible. I'm not sure what this thinner one's name is but it should be fine.
It was easy to wash off, now we will try and integrate it into some kind of Indian lentil dish.
That's all for now, hopefully I'll find some of the fatter chicken of the woods later in the season.