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It's Morel season, today's menu was Poulet w/morels and cream sauce
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I tripped over them in my wooded front yard...Seeding with wash water for next year
peterk123
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I hate you
i love to roll mine in flour and fry in butter, with a slice of crusty bread
they're really easy to find and identify but the deer and bunnies eat them up fast. just make sure theyre not false morels. slice them open, real morels are hollow and false morels have a brain-like center. you should always slice them, you often find grubs living in the center. they like to grow on steep embankments just above moving water, in or near rotting hardwood, in places where the ground is bare and the sun can hit sometimes. you can find in blue hills or near the river near my house, but they grow a lot more a little later in the season in the berks.
they're really easy to find and identify but the deer and bunnies eat them up fast. just make sure theyre not false morels. slice them open, real morels are hollow and false morels have a brain-like center. you should always slice them, you often find grubs living in the center. they like to grow on steep embankments just above moving water, in or near rotting hardwood, in places where the ground is bare and the sun can hit sometimes. you can find in blue hills or near the river near my house, but they grow a lot more a little later in the season in the berks.
I just seeded next to 2 slippery elms and my brush burn pile in the back '40'...
I suspect you're right about the rabbit and deer there should be a ton out back but instead, a lot of fat arsed bunnies and deer and deer ticks.
I suspect you're right about the rabbit and deer there should be a ton out back but instead, a lot of fat arsed bunnies and deer and deer ticks.
I have so much duff layer on my land and not enough heavy rains to give me the “leaf tent” option. Canopy is too dense for morels but honeys and oyster are super abundant. It’s seems morels really need that open canopy to thrive. I hear that many just find them on the front lawn or backyard often but not me 
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ahh, cream of chicken soup! love it.
Marty McFly
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What is a false morel
Marty McFly
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Is there a way to tell before you cut them?false morel:
real morel:
false morels are ugly, heavy, cottony, and the relationship between the cap and stem is different. but when they're young it can be harder to id. people who take mushroom hunting seriously know all about the area they're in as well as which surrounding trees support which species. i might find yellow morels near where i live but different subspecies have different lifecycle characteristics.
super easy to id, just slice in half and if they're hollow you're gtg. if you're really into finding local wild veg theres a group on MeetUp that forages blue hills and other places, some real shroom experts on there if you know what I mean, you will get a lot of knowledge but you might have put up with their patchouli smell.
