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Wild Edibles:  What do you forage for in your area?  |
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Elizaray
outspoken
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Elizaray
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 Posted - Apr 12 2007 : 3:44:15 PM
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Jen-
What did the persimmon taste like?
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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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Posted - Apr 13 2007 : 10:48:44 AM
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Hmmmm.....I really can't relate it to anything! Doesn't taste like chicken (;)] Okay, maybe something like a mild, squishy, sweet apricotish kind of taste. I'll see if I can find some later in the summer & give a better report!
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Mountain Girl
outrigged
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JoAnn
Colville
WA
USA
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Posted - Apr 14 2007 : 10:05:49 AM
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| Jim found three new patches of morels--one has over twenty morels in it. It's raining gently and Jim said he can hear those morels growing! These are all within walking distance of our house. Start looking. JoAnn |
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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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USA
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Posted - Apr 14 2007 : 4:52:00 PM
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Excellent! I'm wondering if our nasty cold weather has put a damper on the morels along with everything else.
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Joelle
outbound
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Joelle
Aptos
CA
USA
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Posted - May 29 2007 : 1:35:25 PM
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| Chantrelles and miners lettuce are close to home here. I would LOVE to learn where to find morels! I took up mushroom hunting as a fun past time to try to I.D. them, but I only have found chantrelles and oysters that i feel confident to eat. I hear you can go to recently burned areas, but I don't really know any details other than that. Does anyone have a few tips? I can't wait to try one too... yes, I have never had morels but am looking forward to it! |
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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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USA
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Posted - May 31 2007 : 1:38:14 PM
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Might not translate out west, Joelle, but the old-timers in southwestern MO swear by "slip-bark elms" - elm trees that have died & are sloughing off bark - and it's true! We found a bunch when we lived there by targeting elms. Cottonwoods are also good (found morels in cottonwood groves in WA). Talked to my brother-in-law last month who went turkey hunting in northeast MO & found so many 9-INCH morels that he & his buddies STOPPED COLLECTING THEM. Unbelievable, yes? As a youngster, I once in a while found enough morels to fill a grocery bag or two, and some were even 6-7 inches tall, but I never gave up hunting with more in sight!
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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Ellen
outstepping
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Posted - Jun 02 2007 : 09:53:07 AM
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have you ever seen this
http://www.morelmania.com
I've went hunting once up in KY...never seen any down here, too hot at night I suspect.
I forage the saws palmetto berries... would be a kind of foraging raking up seaweeds for the garden mulch?? |
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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
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Posted - Jun 02 2007 : 2:49:18 PM
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I have never hunted for morels before... honestly they look a little creepy to me with that cratered top thing. It kindof looks like a sponge to me. Do they taste good enought to get past the creepy outside?
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Ellen
outstepping
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Posted - Jun 02 2007 : 3:13:34 PM
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Guess it depends on weather you like different texture foods... you can chop up the crater and not notice it    |
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Mountain Girl
outrigged
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JoAnn
Colville
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 03 2007 : 7:19:19 PM
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| Elizaray, yes morals are worth getting over their strange appearance. Just chop them up. Of course I love them stuffed but they are equally good chopped up. Scrambled eggs and morels, yummy. Pasta with a morel cream sauce, wonderful. We took my garden club on a morel hunt and you never saw such enthusastic hunters. One of the members likened it to an adult Easter egg hunt. When someone found some they were yelling and shouting like little kids and the others would come running. JoAnn |
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