Staring sandwish, yummy!

RC Moser · Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:37 pm

No I would ruin these with baked starling

How many know what these are? Picked fresh this morning! YUM! YUM! for those of use who relish these!

James Strickland FL · Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:44 pm

Look like mushrooms.

Laverne · Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:48 pm

Those are morels -- they're better with chicken fried HOSP

RC Moser · Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:03 pm

yep, mushrooms, but Laverne said it right MORELS, there are mushroom

and then there are MORELS

second most prized mushroom! I guess you could say Truffles would be the only ones topping Morels!

Craig Dyer · Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:30 pm

When I was a kid (in Michigan) we used to pick morels in the apple orchard behind my home. Fried in a little butter they are better than filet mignon steak!

barry resvick · Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:39 pm

Hi RC
I pick those for about two days a year down at my pond.They are very sought after by chefs and they pick them in the mountains throughout BC.Believe it or not they are worth 500.00 bucks a dried pound.I pick an icecream tub full each year then dry them.They will last for years dried in a quart sealer.

Matt@atx · Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:21 am

Is there a way a person can grow those to eat. Like cultivate them for food?

rickluc · Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:19 am

Matt@atx wrote:Is there a way a person can grow those to eat. Like cultivate them for food?

If you could figure that out you would be a very very rich person!!

dcartwright · Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:54 am

My grandfather refer to them as "Dry Land Fish" here in Kentucky. Brings back some very good memories!

Thanks.

barry resvick · Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:39 am

I wish i could,but theres only a few days a year that the climate here is perfect for them and the only place i find them is by my pond growing amongst dead leaves and close to the water.If anyone else finds them elsewhere,Please share as they are too goood to not pick.They must be picked very first thing in the morning or they get full of bugs.

barry resvick · Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:41 am

Hey RC!
Where do you usually find them?

RC Moser · Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:47 am

majority of Hardwood produced the spor. I find them under Red Oak, cottonwood, mulberries and Elm sapplings. Apple was first for me, but I never been around apple orchards. I look for dead trees with the bark just falling off them. Usually find the mostly on the north and east sides of them trees. But, basiclly you can find them anywhere, so going on one or two things may limit the JACK POT! Season starts off in the south in late feb. and mar. runs through midwest apr. and early may, and far north in may and early June. They say the come all year, but I have never found any except in the spring in what area I am in. I grew up in NW Missouri and was taught by grandpa how to find them. I heard of people finding Gunney sacks full of them, but I never found more that Brown shopping bag full. Usually if you can find bread sack full you are very lucky!

Fry them like chicken, some like them rolled in flour, others like them with crushed crackers and milk.

They go for $25. pound fresh in may area. when I was kid they went for $5 pound.

barry resvick · Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:06 pm

i really wish our season for them was a little longer.I usually get an icecream pale full once a year but some of them have been six inches long and a couple inches in diameter when fresh.Theres a wooded areaq just to the north of us and i think il give it a try when i see them around the pond.Thanks so much for the info