Mushroom hunt

[tftfan]

Digger George, thanks for the shroom pics, any of those eaters?

 

[tftfan]

My shroom eater, how do you cook um? Little shroom on a half shell?

 

[epgorge]

Mossy back snapper turtle is the best meat I have ever eaten.[8D]

Joel

 

[deepwoods]

Good thing to remember: the feet may move slow, but the head dosnt.

 

[LC]

Well, you seemed well versed on them so you are in good shape. I have heard from mushroom hunters here locally over the years about what to look for and what to avoid and so on, but I can never keep them in their proper prospectives, so I just stay away from all of them.

http://www.freewebs.com/yesterdaystreasures/index.htm

 

[LC]

That is another thing you can have Joel, snapping turtle ! I would go with my Dad when I was a kid and check turtle lines he would set. We sure brought home some big ones at times. I never smelled anything so rotton in my life as the smell of a snapping turtle being cleaned. Made me sick to my stomach. When we had turtle for supper, I had a bologna sandwich. To this day, I have never tasted turtle, and do not believe I ever will. Took my Grandsons fishing last week, and my seven year old Grandson, drug one of those blasted things in, roughly a six pounder, and I had to deal with it. They can get meaner than all get out when they want to. Brought back all those bad memories again as to the smell of them.

http://www.freewebs.com/yesterdaystreasures/index.htm

 

[SergioWilkins]

Got to love them morels. We tends to stumble upon a batch or two of them every spring while out looking for glass. Here's a photo from one of last year's hauls. None so far this year, though, as we've had very little rain.
Oh and nice insulators! The CD-151 style rarely show up north of the 49th!

 

[epgorge]

If you are interested in mushrooms, I suggest you buy the pictorial field guide to mushrooms. It is a great little book which seperates myth from fact and has great pictures of mushrooms in different stages of age. It is expensive though.

I can understand the smell aspect... to this day I can't eat or stomach the smell of 1000 islands dressing because it smells like the mess hall after a hot hosing. Turns my stomach, it does.

The snapper had about seven different meats in it. Different texture, color and taste. I crock pot it and make a stew with a milk gravy base and lots of veggies. Delicious. Of course, I haven't had it in many years becuse I don't like killing turtles.

Joel

 

[epgorge]

Nice pic! Nicely camoed in the underbrush. I can't wait to find some this year. It is still too early here. Around here (Vermont) they usually come in with the Lilacs.
Ep

 

[SergioWilkins]

This one here is a really, really great one, too. It's the one I use, and I haven't ingested anything poisonous thus far.

http://www.amazon.ca/Knopf-Mushroom-Book-Thomas-Laessoe/dp/0676970060

It has photographs, scientific classes, seasons, geographies, and habitats of nearly every commonvariety of mushroom. Admittedly I have turned up a couple that weren't in it, but we just avoid those.


Anyone ever seen one of these before?

http://www.english-country-garden.com/fungus/the-prince.htm

I found one last autumn, and I have to say it was probably the most delicious variety of mushroom I've ever tried! Don't confuse with any of the other cap & stem that look similarly shaggy on the top of the cap, though. Some of them are... not so good.