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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Eskimo-Bert on April 15, 2011, 11:03:09 am

Title: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Eskimo-Bert on April 15, 2011, 11:03:09 am
      Tis the time of the year for all of us trad. guys to get out, and go out, and get back to survival and live off the land!
 gotta love those mollie moochers!!!!

                                                               Good Hunting,
                                                                       
                                                                         Eskimo-Bert
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: FlintWalker on April 15, 2011, 10:04:26 pm
I just had me a mess! Yum Yum ;D
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: JW_Halverson on April 15, 2011, 11:33:25 pm
They are so good the steak will be the side dish!
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Timo on April 16, 2011, 12:20:38 am
The wife a kid picked about 40 yellows tonight,very fresh....I rekon I'll have to go back and find the ones they missed tomorrow. ;D
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Hillbilly on April 16, 2011, 03:28:41 am
I'm planning on going out to look sometime this weekend. Been craving morels for sure.
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: John K on April 17, 2011, 12:07:31 pm
Going to be a few weeks before i find any up here !
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Timo on April 17, 2011, 12:21:26 pm
My girls picked 112 last night. We were eating shrooms at 10pm.  ;D

A very good year here so far.
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: mullet on April 17, 2011, 01:27:19 pm
Sure wish we had them down here. :'(
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: El Destructo on April 17, 2011, 01:30:37 pm
I aint had a Morel since I moved from Upper Michigan in 1982...but I can still close my eyes ...and taste them!
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: HoBow on April 17, 2011, 01:32:59 pm
This will be my first year to go morel hunting and it will be a few more weeks before they show up here.
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Hillbilly on April 17, 2011, 05:40:48 pm
There's just barely beginning to pop up here. Me and Cody went to one of our honey holes this morning and only found ten or twelve down at the very low end of the holler. Next weekend should be the time to be out there.
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: FlintWalker on April 17, 2011, 11:41:57 pm
I picked up 150 today while I was turkey hunting and walked past maybe 20 or 30 more scattered here and there. Good year here so far. I have a coupe of friends that have found over 2,000 in the last 3 days :o
 I'd like to find that many just one time. Don't know what I'd do with em, but it'd be cool to find 'em.  My wife won't touch 'em so I ended up giving most of the 300 or so I've found this weekend away.
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Hillbilly on April 18, 2011, 12:13:33 am
Shannon, they dry really good.
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: FlintWalker on April 18, 2011, 12:17:54 am
Shannon, they dry really good.
Steve, would you care to "enlighten" me a little on that? :)
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: El Destructo on April 18, 2011, 12:28:39 am
Shannon...we used to dehydrate them in a warm oven...and put the in Mason Jars ...now my kin folk dehydrate them in a dehydrator...and then vacuum seal them for storage...progress.... ;D
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Eskimo-Bert on April 18, 2011, 12:35:56 am
     That's tue ------ they dehydrate very well andwhen you rehydrate them the flavor iseven more intense-------- I found about 60 this evening and cant wait to go get some more!  of course, the ones i found this evening went into a gravy with some onions poured over a real nice baked steak!

                                             Mmmmmmmm-Mmmmmmm good!

                                                  Eskimo-Bert ;D
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: GregB on April 18, 2011, 09:54:04 am
I didn't count, but probably found between 75-100 over the weekend. Had a great meal Saturday night with deer roast, fried potatoes, fried cabbage, and mushrooms! Planning on a couple of steaks and some mushrooms tonight with my girlfriend! ;)
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Wolf Watcher on April 18, 2011, 11:01:03 am
Sure do love them firied with some backstrap.  We will have a very few about a month from now and the big ones are about the size of the end of your thumb.  A/ho Joe
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: wvbowhntr on April 18, 2011, 04:21:50 pm
 me and bert only found about 3 the other day whn he posted this but we went out yesterday and we found quite a few think imgoing out today to get some more.  Man i wish they grew all year!!
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Hillbilly on April 19, 2011, 12:20:22 am
Had a mess tonight, and they were good. Shannon, just stick 'em in the dehydrator and let them dry, store them in a 'shine jar, and soak them in warm water or milk to reconstitute them  before you cook them. They taste just as good or better than fresh ones, and they'll keep forever as long as you keep them dry and sealed up.
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: mullet on April 19, 2011, 01:09:11 am
Shannon, bring some of the dried ones to the Classic, I'll trade you something. I've never ate one before. :)
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: JW_Halverson on April 19, 2011, 01:12:01 am
Reconstituted wild morels are crazy strong flavored.  Man, I'm here to tell you they will make a stew stand up and cheer!

Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: FlintWalker on April 19, 2011, 01:22:57 am
Well then...I reckon I'll dry some!
 Eddie, if'n I get hold of more I will. No trade required
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Bone pile on April 19, 2011, 08:31:13 am
Eddie if you don't like them shrooms just bring em back with you and I'll be more than happy to take care of them.Haven't had one in years and you guys are killin' me
Bone pile
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: GregB on April 19, 2011, 09:46:27 am
My girlfriend and I cooked some last night and they stole the show! Had them with steak and twice baked potatoes.

Got the skillet hot with some olive oil, put the mushrooms in and several slices of butter on top. A few dashes of worchestshire sauce, salt and pepper. After they cook down some we added heavy cream with some flour to make a gravy. They were great!
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Wolf Watcher on April 19, 2011, 10:56:00 am
Shannon:  If you have some dried and some left over from Mullet, I would like to trade for some.  We didn't find enough last year to even stink up the skillet!  A/Ho Joe
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: FlintWalker on April 20, 2011, 01:21:33 am
I've got a few in the oven drying now Joe. We'll see how it turns out ;)
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: JW_Halverson on April 20, 2011, 11:37:45 pm
All right, enough already!

It's time for the moderators to lock this thread.  It's causing im-morel thoughts!
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: mullet on April 20, 2011, 11:44:01 pm
JW, I'd think about locking this thread if you loaded up your butt and came to the Classic with Joe. ;D
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: JW_Halverson on April 20, 2011, 11:52:01 pm
It sure sounds like fun, Gus.  (oooh, that pun stinketh)

My heart will be there, Eddie.  One of the three big things keeping me from going is a huge fundraiser we are doing for the non-profit I started, the Black Hills Raptor Center.  It might not look good if the founder didn't show up. 


Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: Eskimo-Bert on April 23, 2011, 02:22:10 am
     Went out today and got drenched found about thirty blonde morels from 2 to 4 inches long ------ found a ten point shed, my buddy found a BUCK gut hook knife and sheath and a goat skull in the woods as well--------------not a bad day in the woods!

                                                     wish we would have found more  morels though

                                                                         Eskimo-Bert  ::)
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: jamie on April 28, 2011, 09:44:00 pm
every spot ive gathered morels from has a house on it. damn progress!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: tattoo dave on April 28, 2011, 11:37:45 pm
You guys are just killin me !!! Still haven't found any up here in Michigan yet :'( :'( :'(. It's still in the 30's some nights. Any day now though.
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: david w. on April 30, 2011, 05:31:52 am
This is one of the best parts of spring :)
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: El Destructo on May 02, 2011, 12:58:35 pm
Ate my first Morel's in nearly 30 years this past week at the Classic...man did they bring back Memories too..... ;D
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: mullet on May 02, 2011, 04:24:22 pm
 I went off and left mine at the Classic >:( :'(. Sawfiler had picked and dried me some. I've still never tried one.
Title: Re: Morel Mushrooming!!!
Post by: david w. on May 03, 2011, 01:31:46 am
^  That needs to change