Morels!
Yes, it's that time of year. It nearly got past me, with everything else going on, but my nephew Philip brought me these on Saturday, while we were busy working on replacing the pond drain. Again. Grrrr. That pond is three times the trouble and ten times the expense of the swimming pool that Elery hated so much. Anyway, Philip spent the day looking for morels, and brought me a nice bag full. I put them on a sheet tray and into the freezer until Mother comes for dinner. I'm not a huge fan but she loves them.
So, it's morel season. I didn't have time to go hunting for more because I was working on the fence, which was grounded again and I wanted to let the cows out into the pasture, they're tired of hay and wanted that green grass. So, I walked that fence, a mile and a half, and couldn't find a problem. Walked it again. Stopped to think for a minute, then started my third walk around and found the problem. Right in the least likely place, of course, but fixed it and turned around and right there, in the middle of my pasture, I found these:
Those are the lighter morels, later in the season, so I nearly missed them entirely. Elery sauteed them this morning and had them with scrambled eggs, and if I have time after I do Dave's books and finish up the paperwork as secretary for the Planning Commission meeting last night, I might go out again.
I'm told that this has been a great year, from Ohio to Idaho. So get out there, find an old apple orchard or some poplar trees or a place where there was a fire last year, morels love all those places. Just remember, a false morel has a cap and a stem, a true morel is all one piece and hollow in the middle, like this:
Happy foraging....
Annie
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Comments (9)My friend who owns river bottom property next to a former RR, now bike trail, catches people all the time who walk right past the No Tresspassing signs. He asks them if they saw the signs and they say "Yeah, but it's mushroom season!" He's like, duh, all the more reason to keep out because I want my own damn mushrooms! He's started to actually confiscate bags of them when he catches people. Some people just don't seem to have the concept of private property clearly in their minds....See MoreMorels?
Comments (12)They look like morels to me, too. Cut one in half. If the stem is all one piece with the top of the mushroom (not two separate pieces like a portobella, etc.) and it's hollow, it's a morel. Grandma used to soak them in salt water to make sure any small beasts were not lurking in the cap, then dipped them in egg and rolled them in flour and fried them in butter. She also added them to scrambled eggs, which was Dad's favorite. I don't have any favorite recipes, because I don't really care for them, but I did dry some and grind them up then mix them with salt for "morel salt", and that made the flavor go a bit further. Enjoy them, it's still in the 40s here, and morels are not yet appearing. Annie...See MoreP. resinosa 'Morel'
Comments (11)We cannot say now, that any specieses are more or less able for genetic changes, like brooms, forms, colours or any other reason. It is simply not known in the botany. Since 6 years ago as I arrived to the Czech Republic, I decribed with friends about 13-14000 conifer brooms. Czech authors discovered 2500 Picea abies, 2000 Pinus mugo and many others, by this way they have now about 6500 brooms. Its an exceptional situation as they organized dicsovery teams, friendly collections, and it was possible to see what they collected. In other countries this works not. In the US there are mainly lonely discoverers, and maybe we will never informed about them. The only exception is Chub Harper and his friends in the 80's with 6-700 discovered. We published this with Dax some years ago: The Justin "Chub" Harper Conifer Heritage Gallery by Dax Herbst & Zsolt Mesterházy, CT 6.0 2014 The lonely discoverers are also famous as Jerry Morris (1400), Sydney Waxman, Greg Williams (~200), Joe Stupka (~700 conifers), Gary Gee, Dennis Hermsen, Joe Braeu, Josh Horky (Joe & Josh ~ 600) and many others. We cannot say that anything should have been finished, because it started only. I havent seen any genetics professors in the forests, as they are probably not yet informed about their next job... Anyway I have a forming vision about the possible future. The about total 3000 Picea abies brooms are showing: 70 % nidiformis spreading type and green, 25 % anyhow globose or little upright, 5 % blue globe. Why? This is the job for genetics anytime. The blue Picea abies brooms are really wonders. Anyone may think, they are Picea omorika, glauca, sitchensis, glehnii or jezoensis brooms, but not, they are Picea abies. All have silvery stomatas on the needles. I suppose - if Picea abies may be a dawn spruce - his brooms may own the genetical elements of the later born spruce specieses. I asked this from Zsolt Debreczy, the famous conifer botanist, and he answered, theoretically we cannot say, that my suppose is impossible. Some years ago I estimated the living brooms in the boreal forests about 5-10 million possible brooms. Who wants to collect all for a genetic survey? I guess nobody. Zsolt conifertreasury.org...See MorePinus resinosa 'Morel'
Comments (2)Red Pine grows wild here, so I think I'm good on soil conditions. I need to make sure I give it enough room and sun to develop properly. When I moved here in 2011, I never thought I'd run out of full sun planting sites, but I'm getting close. Ron, you're living up to your moniker. ;)...See More
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