Any Mushroom Pickers?

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (felix4067)

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:41:18 GMT

I didn't know there was picking in the fall. We were always done by around Mother's Day.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (joerogo)

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:32:30 GMT

Very late crop this year. Anyone pickin yet?

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (Wintem01)

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:57:57 GMT

I LOVE mushrooms, but am too unknowledgeable to pick them safely (although that chicken mushroom would be hard to mistake). Is there a specific guide that is the best to help a novice? Also, I am in suburban Columbus, Oh, is it legal to pick mushrooms in city/state parks? Great thread!!

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (joerogo)

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:24:26 GMT

minnesippi@gmail.com

I have mushrooms!! I don't know what kind, I just know they are huge. What do I do with them? The thought of eating them grosses me out - not to mention I am allergic to fungus. Anyone want them? I just picked them Sunday.
(How do I upload pics? It keeps failing on me...so you can check them out here...mstangen.blogspot.com )

No spaming the mushroom thread Jerky!

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (minnesippi@gmail.com)

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:13:13 GMT

I have mushrooms!! I don't know what kind, I just know they are huge. What do I do with them? The thought of eating them grosses me out - not to mention I am allergic to fungus. Anyone want them? I just picked them Sunday.
(How do I upload pics? It keeps failing on me...so you can check them out here...mstangen.blogspot.com )

Re:Any Mushroom Pickers? (Michael Hoffman)

Wed, 05 May 2010 12:26:43 GMT

Oh, so it's pork.

Re:Any Mushroom Pickers? (bdtn)

Wed, 05 May 2010 11:30:55 GMT

slang for mu shoom

Re:Any Mushroom Pickers? (Michael Hoffman)

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:22:22 GMT

Is a shroom anything like a mushroom?

Re:Any Mushroom Pickers? (bdtn)

Tue, 04 May 2010 20:36:02 GMT

in oregon during the season we would have 20-30 diff shroom in our restraunt .the chicken of the wood shroom the vegies would say i was trying to feed them meat . then they would ask what is demi glace is as you had to ask for vegie shroom medley .we allways sauted our mush medley gratinee with demi [veal stock reduction] we always would laugh at ther holy than thou attitude and have no idea even thou it said it on the menu
to ask for vegi dishies. i miss the fungi. here in TN we get large puff balls all summer but that is it.

the minister of mycology in exile
bill
i will drive days to help cook your shrooms

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (Davydd)

Tue, 04 May 2010 19:09:13 GMT

I checked out morels at my local grocery when I went up to get the butter. A dried pack of morels was selling for $20/oz. No fresh were in the store. Fresh mushrooms according to Zataar were 5 morels for $20 at her grocery. My 18 morels would retail for about $72. I'll fry some of these in butter tomorrow and probably freeze the rest. I'd do it tonight but I am scheduled for a cholesterol test tomorrow morning and trying to see how low I can get it. Butter might upset that number even though I have to fast 12 hours before.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (Michael Hoffman)

Tue, 04 May 2010 18:29:43 GMT

Morels were very late this year in Ohio because of dry weather. So far it's been a small crop. I don't eat them -- I'm allergic to mushrooms -- but I would hunt morels every year to make them for my wife and kids. Just the other day I finally found some in one area where I used to pick them, almost a month late.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (rumaki)

Tue, 04 May 2010 17:08:50 GMT

Wow -- do those morels look delectable!

I am envious. In my urban yard, I'm lucky to get toadstools.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (joerogo)

Tue, 04 May 2010 17:04:01 GMT

Hey Davydd, That's some good pickin. I never had a morel. No many in my neck of the woods.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (Davydd)

Tue, 04 May 2010 16:17:34 GMT

If you look back in this thread you will see I harvest puffball mushrooms in the late summer and fall. In the spring I have to be on the lookout for morels in my wooded lot. What a bounty this year! In less than 5 minutes I harvested 18 morels weighing in at a pound and a half. Now I have to run to the store for some butter.

After I filled a paper lunch bag sack I just stopped looking.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (joerogo)

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:05:46 GMT

It was a great day in the woods this morning.

I snagged a chicken mushroom. They are found on dead red oak stumps, florescent orange on top and florescent yellow on the bottom. When you boil them, they smell like chicken soup. Hence the name. Here is a photo of the top, along with some pa-pinkies.

Here is a blurry photo of the bottom.

This should be an easy one for anybody to pick. You can't mess up with colors like that.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (NYPIzzaNut)

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:40:05 GMT

NYPIzzaNut

joerogo

NYPIzzaNut

Around these parts folks share their knowledge with their neighbors - the pickings are good here - too many to pick this year - the rainy weather has made mushrooms shoot up everywhere!!!!!!!

Are you in an Amish area?

Competition is fierce in my area. Most people take their secret spots to the grave

Is that not an Amish area?

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (NYPIzzaNut)

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:39:12 GMT

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RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (joerogo)

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:18:28 GMT

NYPIzzaNut

Around these parts folks share their knowledge with their neighbors - the pickings are good here - too many to pick this year - the rainy weather has made mushrooms shoot up everywhere!!!!!!!

Competition is fierce in my area. Most people take their secret spots to the grave

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (joerogo)

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:16:18 GMT

adamguy85

I'm a first-time mushroom picker. Planning to go out for the first time tomorrow (9/30/09) for sheepsheads. Really most people around me hunt for morels and sheepsheads and those are the two I know, so that's what I'm sticking to. I know to look near old red oaks, does anybody have any other advice for an amateur? I don't want to ask my neighbors as they are hunters and may not want to give me the whole scoop for fear of me finding their spots.

Sheepsheads grow at the base of very old red oak trees(pointy leaves). Do not pull them. If you cut them with a knife, they will grow back every year in the same spot. It is a little early for sheepsheads in my area. Good Luck.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (NYPIzzaNut)

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:14:01 GMT

Around these parts folks share their knowledge with their neighbors - the pickings are good here - too many to pick this year - the rainy weather has made mushrooms shoot up everywhere!!!!!!!

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (adamguy85)

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:09:53 GMT

I'm a first-time mushroom picker. Planning to go out for the first time tomorrow (9/30/09) for sheepsheads. Really most people around me hunt for morels and sheepsheads and those are the two I know, so that's what I'm sticking to. I know to look near old red oaks, does anybody have any other advice for an amateur? I don't want to ask my neighbors as they are hunters and may not want to give me the whole scoop for fear of me finding their spots.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (joerogo)

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:35:28 GMT

The season is starting early as predicted. I picked my first batch of Papinkies yesterday.

They were delicous in red sauce over polenta(traditional first meal).

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (darryls)

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:40:34 GMT

...Consider yourself very fortunate NY...Sometimes folks like me, who leave the "home" grounds , forget just how good we had it until it's gone...Pick 'em and enjoy 'em my friend......Seeing some of the pictures posted here in the forums has really gotten the nostalgia motor running for me...

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (NYPIzzaNut)

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:19:52 GMT

darryls

...I've googled for info on Florida mushroom hunting for years NYPizzaNut...all with the same result...Nothing...By all appearances, unless you are a certified mycological scientist, there is no foraging being done by most people in the Sunshine state...I'll probably just have to be satisfied with the memories of midwest mushrooming......It may be that the lack of true "seasons" down here plays an important role in the existance, or non-existance, of a viable edible mushroom crop...

That is a dirty rotten shame!

Around here we have been inundated with mushrooms this year due apparently to the climate changes and rain. It is unbelievable.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (darryls)

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:05:20 GMT

...joerogo you may be right about the vacation...LOL...I have spoken to a few professors from the Univerity of South Florida about those "Magic Mushrooms" and have been told that they do contain a toxin similar to the amanita group, although not at the levels of that group. If you recall, the amanita muscara

It is a poisonous as well as a beautiful mushroom, that has been known to be eaten by numbers of people in Europe without dire consequeces. They say boiling well can remove most of the toxin to make them quite edible. I just don't feel the need to tempt fate myself with either them or the "Magic Mushroom"...LOL...

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (joerogo)

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:38:25 GMT

darryls

...I've googled for info on Florida mushroom hunting for years NYPizzaNut...all with the same result...Nothing...By all appearances, unless you are a certified mycological scientist, there is no foraging being done by most people in the Sunshine state...I'll probably just have to be satisfied with the memories of midwest mushrooming......It may be that the lack of true "seasons" down here plays an important role in the existance, or non-existance, of a viable edible mushroom crop...

darryls, The only mushrooms I know of in Florida grow in the cow pastures and must be picked at sunrise. I think they were called Magic Mushrooms

I think you need a mushroom picking vacation up north. It's going to be a banner year.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (darryls)

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:32:55 GMT

...I've googled for info on Florida mushroom hunting for years NYPizzaNut...all with the same result...Nothing...By all appearances, unless you are a certified mycological scientist, there is no foraging being done by most people in the Sunshine state...I'll probably just have to be satisfied with the memories of midwest mushrooming......It may be that the lack of true "seasons" down here plays an important role in the existance, or non-existance, of a viable edible mushroom crop...

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (NYPIzzaNut)

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:38:44 GMT

I bet if you googled the subject you would hit a bonanza of info.

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (darryls)

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:58:07 GMT

...LOL...You guys have really taken to make me very homesick for my old stomping grounds. Being originally from Wisconsin, I used to take to the woods each spring and fall to partake in the bounties offered by mother nature. In the spring it was the morels and fiddleheads and in the fall it was the "Pa-pinkies" or Armillaria mellea that we used to call honey mushrooms, the sheephead mushrooms that we used to call the cauliflower mushroom, and a puffball is a puffball everywhere I guess...LOL...Nothing gives flavor like a wild mushroom and I miss all the wonderful dishes I used to make with those wild beauties compared to what's available in the stores around here. I live in Florida now and I have not heard of anyone doing much mushroom foraging down here at all since I got here in 2000. If anyone knows anything about mushrooms in Florida, please give me a shout...Great thread...

RE: Any Mushroom Pickers? (joerogo)

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:14:05 GMT

Hey Marlene, One word...NASTY! But then again, truffles are butt ugly also.