Mushroomiest soup

[Bryan Simmons]

A whole pound of mushrooms in a small pot of soup.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/36178182@N08/52801124293/in/dateposted-public/
Two packaged of presliced ones for 99 cents in the markdown
bin, and they were perfectly fine.

--Bryan

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

Looks good, but I confess to cutting them into three pieces when they're that
large.

Enjoy!

[GM]

I ran out of dried shrooms, so have been using the fresh... this looks good...!!!

BTW it's morel mushroom season coming up, wish I had some. When a kid, we'd go out
and get huge amounts and they'd get fried up, YUM...!!!

Otherwise, to buy they are luxury item, they apparently cannot be very well cultivated as the
more common varieties are...

Here is the IL progression map, from a FB page - they are on their way...!!!

https://postimg.cc/ZBGCcsWr

--
GM

[Thomas]

Leftover stew from yesterday, whole white button.
https://postimg.cc/XBYL4bZy

[Thomas]

I have never picked those but would. In Pa we pick papinkies.
I was violently ill last year for 3 days and suspected my shrooms. No one else has ill effects so I tried again.
On my death bed. I really want to try again...

[dsi1]

My sister-in-law gave me some morels that she had picked. I'm a little frightened of them. What if she made a mistake?

[GM]

You cannot mistake them for anything else ..

And morels grow in Hawaii, David...???

--
GM

[Mike Duffy]

On 2023-04-08, GM wrote:

You cannot mistake them for anything else ..

Not 100% accurate. They are easily mistaken for
'false morels'. me & my Dad picked and ate them
for years, thinking they were real morels.

The conditions under which false morels can
be toxic are not universally accepted. The
most widely accepted way to prevent toxicity
is to ensure they are sufficiently cooked,
which we always did simply as a preference.

In the end, what stopped my Dad from mushroom
picking was losing a kidney and a week in the
hospital when every single visitor said later
that they were certain he would not survive.

That time, it was what he & his friends called
'birch mushrooms', which are by themselves
usually safe to eat, but not when growing in
the same soil alongside certain types of
Amanita because often mushrooms will exchange
chemicals with other species via hyphae.

[GM]

Much obliged, Mike..

--
GM

[Dave Smith]

On 2023-04-08 11:38 p.m., Mike Duffy wrote:
> On 2023-04-08, GM wrote:
>
> You cannot mistake them for anything else ..
>
> Not 100% accurate. They are easily mistaken for
> 'false morels'. me & my Dad picked and ate them
> for years, thinking they were real morels.

My father grew up in a small farm town and every year he would take us
on a hunt for morels. He claimed to know all the good spots around that
town to find them. I came to the conclusion that it was an excuse to go
for a weekend drive because we never found any. To this day I have never
seen a morel in the wild.


>

[Cindy Hamilton]

I had either morels or false morels growing in the yard of my first
house, around the remains of an old apple tree. It's been more than
25 years since I lived there, but from what I can recall from picking,
slicing, and cooking them, they were true morels.

Just an ordinary suburban house, although it's possible that the
previous owners brought stuff back from Up North and ended up
inoculating the site.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[songbird]

Mike Duffy wrote:
...

> That time, it was what he & his friends called
> 'birch mushrooms', which are by themselves
> usually safe to eat, but not when growing in
> the same soil alongside certain types of
> Amanita because often mushrooms will exchange
> chemicals with other species via hyphae.

true, they network, they can also exchange
nutrients with plants, but i'm not sure it is as
direct as what they can do with each other.


songbird

[bruce bowser]

Don't tell me that morels could be poisonous, too?

[dsi1]

My sister-in-law told me to soak the mushrooms in milk to re-hydrate them. That sounds in of goofy - and a little disgusting.

[Mike Duffy]

On 2023-04-10, bruce bowser wrote:

> Don't tell me that morels could be poisonous, too?

Yes. Moreover, any mushroom can be deadly. Often the
toxic species may not yet show itself by fruiting bodies
above ground.

Of course, wild-picked mushrooms are more likely to
be contamintaed, because commercial growers will
sterilize the compost &c before putting it out
and seeding with the desired spores.

All it takes is one bad spore wafting in and in a few
days all the mushrooms will be extrememly toxic.


When my Dad was in the hospital recovering, I had a
dream where the neighbour (dead for 50 years in real
life) came to get my Dad and I sent the neighbour away
telling him that my dad was not ready to go with him.

[Bryan Simmons]

On Monday, April 10, 2023 at 3:06:45 PM UTC-5, Mike Duffy wrote:
> On 2023-04-10, bruce bowser wrote:
>
> > Don't tell me that morels could be poisonous, too?
> Yes. Moreover, any mushroom can be deadly. Often the
> toxic species may not yet show itself by fruiting bodies
> above ground.
>
> Of course, wild-picked mushrooms are more likely to
> be contamintaed, because commercial growers will
> sterilize the compost &c before putting it out
> and seeding with the desired spores.
>
> All it takes is one bad spore wafting in and in a few
> days all the mushrooms will be extrememly toxic.
>

"A few days"??? How does that work?

--Bryan

[Mike Duffy]

On 2023-04-10, Bryan Simmons wrote:

> "A few days"??? How does that work?

It's called 'exponential' growth.

Maybe several days; I was being cautious.

[GM]

“Ready... Fire... Aim..."

:o)

--
GM

[songbird]

very remote chance. basically i would not eat them
if they're growing around mushrooms i don't know but
that would the case for any mushroom growing next to
any others i didn't know.

since i do not normally eat mushrooms from the wild
this is something i've rarely seen or had to deal with.

the morels that grow here (in our yard) are usually
not near any other mushroom species.


songbird

[songbird]

dsi1 wrote:
...

> My sister-in-law told me to soak the mushrooms in milk to re-hydrate them. That sounds in of goofy - and a little disgusting.

it's just milk. take the rinse water/milk out
and spread it around your yard. spores will start
new colonies for you to harvest later if the
conditions are right.


songbird

[dsi1]

I'm not a fan of milk or soaking stuff in milk. I think the Jews would be horrified with having milk come in contact with animal flesh - and those guys ain't dumb. I don't mind soaking the mushrooms in water. I could even dump the water on the lawn. My guess is would be a miracle if anything came of it.
I could probably eat as much mushrooms as I want but it's not going to be ones that I find in the wild. My body is a holy temple where deadly poisons are prohibited.

[songbird]

dsi1 wrote:
...

> I'm not a fan of milk or soaking stuff in milk. I think the Jews would be horrified with having milk come in contact with animal flesh - and those guys ain't dumb. I don't mind soaking the mushrooms in water. I could even dump the water on the lawn. My guess is would be a miracle if anything came of it.
> I could probably eat as much mushrooms as I want but it's not going to be ones that I find in the wild. My body is a holy temple where deadly poisons are prohibited.

i was only speaking of morels. i don't soak mushrooms at
all myself.


songbird

[dsi1]

These are dried morels so they'd have to be soaked - or do they?

[bruce bowser]

On Monday, April 10, 2023 at 9:49:29 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Monday, April 10, 2023 at 3:09:40 PM UTC-10, songbird wrote:
> > dsi1 wrote:
> > ...
> > > My sister-in-law told me to soak the mushrooms in milk to re-hydrate them. That sounds in of goofy - and a little disgusting.
> > it's just milk. take the rinse water/milk out
> > and spread it around your yard. spores will start
> > new colonies for you to harvest later if the
> > conditions are right.
> >
> >
> > songbird
> I'm not a fan of milk or soaking stuff in milk.

Soaking chicken in buttermilk and frying it is great. I hear that soaking it in coconut milk is good, too.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Yes, if they're dried they should be soaked, just like the wide variety
of Chinese mushrooms I'm confident you're familiar with.

Soak them in water, strain the soaking liquid, and use it in a sauce.

I'm pretty sure everybody else here was thinking of fresh morels, since
it's morel season most places.

https://www.thegreatmorel.com/morel-sightings/

--
Cindy Hamilton