You Really Should Try These

[LadyHawk108]

Okay, I know I sound like a broken record, but you can only get morel mushrooms fresh one time a year. You can order from this site. Their price is excellent. If you do decide to order (live life on the edge...if you like portabellas, you will die for these!!) don't waste them with a bunch of ingredients. You have to savor their flavor on their own. Anyway, check it out if you like different gourmet tastes...Either the mixed or the blonde are excellent. I do prefer the blond morels, but you will be ecstatic with either if you like mushrooms.
www.earthydelights.com (http://www.earthydelights.com/)

[Antigone]

We always used to just coat them in flour and fry them in butter. After spending a long day in the woods pickin' em it was sure good eating when you got home!! YUMMY!

[LadyHawk108]

That's my favorite way too. Or else just fried in butter and bacon.

[Antigone]

Hmmmm. I've never tried them that way. But anything with butter and bacon has to be good!

[LadyHawk108]

Antigone, do you get alot of shrooms in Idaho? Some of my best memories were hunting mushrooms in Indiana when I was little. A quirky story....when I was in my 30's and long since moved away from Indiana, my husband and family went back to Indiana to visit my mom. We timed it in May so that we hoped we'd be able to go mushroom hunting. We tromped around woods all over the country and no morels to be found anywhere. My husband said jokingly he thought it was all a made up myth about finding those yummy morsels in the woods. A few days later we went to the cemetary to visit my dad's mausoleum....as I knelt in tears, I opened my eyes and there right next to the base of the mausoleum was the biggest blond morel you have ever seen!! True story.

[Antigone]

We get quite a few, but it gets harder each year to find them. The best places around here appear to be in areas that have had a burn within the last year or so. Also, they started locking up some of the public land under the roadless plan so getting to them is harder. We used to go every year, but I haven't been in awhile. My Dad still stops every now and then and gathers a few for himself on the way home. We will be burning some big slash piles this year on my Dad's place so hopefully some will shoot up there in the future. Either that or that friggin' Yellow Star Thistle!!!

[Warlady]

$33.00 a pound is out of my reach.

[Antigone]

$33.00 a pound is out of my reach.

By the time you buy a tank of gas, drinks, snacks, and spend 8+ hours traveling and scouring the woods for maybe a gallon Ziploc full of the things..... $33.00 a pound looks mighty good!!!

The same theory applies to huckleberries! :D

[LadyHawk108]

Brenda, I'm going to bring you some. You would LOVE them!! I may have to drive them though so they are still in premium shape. They have to be overnighted here in dry ice.