Yummy

[rainbowchaser]

hen o the woods 9-14-10 (2) resized.jpg I also took two smaller ones and left some more.

[dpenrod]

two smaller ones? are you saying that is just one mushroom in the photo? if so, wow! what kind and how do you fix them? big fan of morels myself, but they are pretty pricey when they're in season around here and i don't feel confident enough to hunt them myself. would probably end up with something that would kill me.

[LadyFisher]

Oyster mushrooms are just super, usually growing from a recently cut down tree.

[rainbowchaser]

I like oyster mushrooms too but that is a Hen of the woods. The book says that they can weigh up to 100 pounds. All four of the fruits I gathered ( I dropped one off at my dad's mushroom hunting buddie's house since he's too old to hike any more and kept the three) were undoubtably from from the same fungus on the roots of a mature oak tree. I've been chopping and sauteing for a couple of hours now and need a break. I chop them up and saute in butter and corn oil mix. I'll pack them in sandwich bags and put those in gallon freezer bags. They will go in soups, stews, stir fries and anything else i can think of.

[EdD]

Somehow or other the idea of “preserved fungus” strikes me as incongruous.

[Normand]

yuk! not for me!

[nighthawk]

yuk! not for me!

Norm are you kidding me? C'mon man slap a big old hunk of that thing on top of a 2 pound Angus burger with some butter sauteed sweet vidalia onion and the fixings, throw down an order of home cut fries and some mozzarella sticks. Man you got a delicious meal that your cardiologist would stand up and applaud!

[fishdog54]

rainbowchaser/nighthawk,

Here locally we call those Ram's head mushrooms! They're also called Sheep's head, Maitake, Kumotake, and as you mentioned Hen of the Woods. They are delicious!!! They are also very firm. You can go to the very same tree/stump (oak around here) year after year. Leave the bases (roots), don't cut them completely out from the tree. Morels should be snipped off, not pulled from the ground for the same reason. They're both great with venison!!!! Since I moved back to Penna. from the U.P. of Mich., I've not found a good (secret) location for Morels. My dad gets me all the Ram's heads I want, so I'm good to go.

Norman,

I agree that mushrooms are one of those foods that you either like or you don't, there's no in-between!!! That leaves more in the woods for me!!!! LOL!!

Best Regards, Dave S.