If you don't know what a morel is, it's a type of wild mushroom.
This is a big yellow morel my nephew found last year.
First the small gray ones pop. In a couple weeks after that the big yellow ones will arrive.
When I was a kid, my dad went out by himself.
Now, it's a family thing.
Me, Kiddo, and Honeyman hike off into the woods with bags and mushrooming sticks and search for the little buggers.
A mushrooming stick is to keep the brush pushed aside as you walk through.
It is also in case one happens to some across a snake and you can fling it with that stick.
Sometimes we get a good haul.
Sometimes not.
I love them.
I fix them all kinds of ways.
Batter fried
Stuffed
Sauteed
I put 'em in casseroles and on pizza.
I just love 'em.
Last year was a lean year.
Here's hoping for a good one this time around.
I have never understood the Iowa mushroom thing. And maybe it's not just Iowa? I say that because I had never even heard of any of this until I moved here..
ReplyDeleteBut, I like that you have so much fun with it. My husband used to love to hunt for them, but he never really like to eat them, although I did cook them for him a time or two.
Happy Saturday, new friend!
When I was young we picked a "different" kind of mushroom.
ReplyDeleteJamie, It's not just in Iowa. It used to be more of a hunter thing though.
ReplyDeleteIt was never that big when I was a kid. Than people started selling them. Now all kinds of people go out.
OT, I bet you did. LOL!
looking at that, I would not had guessed it a mushroom or edible. How have I never seen it in a grocery store before? I love mushrooms.
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I don't think every state sells them in grocery stores. I know in IA I have never seen them. Only at farmer's markets and some people sell them in the newspaper.
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