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Mushroom Collecting 2010
Tsalagi:
HONGOS A GO-GO!!!
Today's haul was nearly TEN POUNDS of Porcinis. These are the classic Porcinis that command premium prices in Italy. If you looked in an Italian cookbook that talks about Porcinis, the pictures you'd see would be these mushrooms. I mean, these are absolutely top-notch specimens. Textbook classics.
We found a few pounds of Shaggy Manes and collected those also. Those need to be run through the dehydrator ASAP as they turn to ink within a few hours of collecting. We haven't found those in a while.
We found a wonderful specimen of Mukhomor (Amanita Muscaria). Took that one home to dry and put on display, along with a few others were collected a couple years ago. This one was a textbook photo type one. They don't get any better than that. They look awesome dried and in a shadowbox.
We found a source of Ink Caps that we may return to collect.
We have pics of all of these and once I figure out how to load them, I'll post them here.
JW, Morels are a primo mushroom people here are always looking for. Folks here won't even give you a 100 mile radius idea of where to look for them if they found some. That one you found is the dream morel of mushroom collectors.
Tsalagi:
We got nearly 20 pounds of them today! Everything from the classic Porcinis to gigantic King Boletes. We couldn't believe it! The Porcinis were growing in clusters, like bunching onions! Never saw that before. The big Kings were standing tall and looking good in a patch of them where we lifted 10 pounds of them right there.
They won't be 20 pounds once dried, as they shrink up, but with these, a little goes a long way. I figure it's going to take a couple days to get these through the dehydrator.
El Destructo:
PICTURES
;D
Tsalagi:
I have the pics, it's loading them that I'm having to work on right now. I think I need a memory card reader. Meant to get one this weekend, but was too busy collecting mushrooms. Got more today, right in our "backyard". Some more of The Prince and some Shaggy Parasols.
Tsalagi:
THIS IS INSANE!!!! ;D LOL!! We can't keep up with it! We filled the entire back seat of my Jeep Cherokee with sacks of King Boletes and smaller Porcinis! If I had to guess, I'd say we picked well over 100 pounds of them, maybe 150 pounds. Both our dehydrators are filled (and one has double racks) and our fridge is full of ones awaiting slicing and drying. This after we gave a sackfull to a friend and a half-sack to neighbors.
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