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Mushroom Collecting 2010
Tsalagi:
Well, we found the first King Bolete of the season! This whale has a cap that's the size of a dinner plate! Thing is huge! My wife discovered a trove of Prince mushrooms growing near our house. Our neighbors mulched their yard (our yards are unfenced and border national forest) with wood chips and Prince mushrooms probably "hitched a ride" here on them. She picked a sackfull of them today and got a sackfull earlier in the week. This same area, we got Shaggy Parasols a couple years ago that hitched a ride in on a neighbors decorative lumber and established themselves.
Our dehydrator is going tp pay for itself all over again for the 1000th time. ;D
mullet:
That is cool. I'm going to miss my lease this year, that is the first place I've ever found edible mushrooms in Florida that you didn't have to take Vacation time to eat.
HoBow:
Let's see some pictures...
Tsalagi:
"...edible mushrooms in Florida that you didn't have to take Vacation time to eat." >:D Those grow here, too...I hear. >:D
We measured the King Bolete. The cap was 8 and 1/2 inches in diameter and the mushroom stands 8 inches high. That's a lot of mushroom! It filled all the racks of our Nesco American Harvest dehydrator---after we cut some fresh slices for stroganoff for dinner.
We have pics, but I'm still trying to figure out how to get them from the camera on to the computer. ???
JW_Halverson:
Aw man, shroooooms, maaaan! Can't wait to see the pics since you didn't invite me over to share in your bounty.
Some years back while turkey hunting we stumbled onto a patch of morels. Found one morel that was 8" high, and was almost 4" actoss the base. They were good fresh, but the flavor was extraordinary when the dried ones were reconstituted in soups and stews. I still hunt the heck outa that turkey ridge (it's the one called Lung Sucker), but have never found a single morel since. You might say I am immorel. >:D
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