i was gonna post this yesterday, but i’m a rule follower dammit.
been rainin’, been shroomin’
pro tip: continental sauce consists of soy, ketchup, black pepper, oregano, oil, and garlic. dip those beer batter fried chanterelles in that and report back.
this one’s for the peeps
EF, i’m hoping to make a fall family sojourn to the mountains. I’ll bring a few things from the Horn o’ plenty if we can make it.
Wang’s top 3 field-to-table chanterelle dishes:
-venison stroganoff
-shrimp risotto
-crab omelette
i had permission from a man on JI to pick the oyster mushrooms that grew out of a damaged spot on an oak tree in his yard around Christmas every year, most productive tree i’ve ever seen. he made me promise i’d check the ID book once more when i got home, he was convinced I was batstool crazy and it would be my last meal.
they had the tree removed last year, which really sucks. i’d have taken the log to my house if i knew it was coming down
Those shrooms look amazing bruh!
“Another poon dream splintered on the rocks of reality.” --Peepod 07-25-2017
That should get your juices flowing!
Picked these yesterday for dinner this weekend. Wife likes the smaller ones with steaks. Never tried deep frying them so we’ll try that too, with the bigger ones.
they are an awesome seasonal resource and flushing like crazy most places finally!
I call those two morphs “stumps” and “flutes” for lack of better descriptive terminology.
I like to use the stumpy ones for frying because they have more body.
Baby stumps are “nubbins”, makes a great presentation when sauteed whole as a topping for steaks, grilled fish, etc… maybe with some of that asparagus EF has up there.
one more tip:
pizza boxes make good short-term storage in the fridge. single layer, stackable, breathable.
they do well in sealed containers for a few days, but they sweat a lot and can get mushy if you don’t use them quickly.
Thanks for the pro-tip…
I resisted picking a couple of dozen large ones that were growing in a nice shaded area last week, hoping that they would spore out. Checked them this morning and they were all decaying.
Hunters, Fishers, and Gatherers will still be around long after the revolution…of this I feel certain
babarwang, I look forward to it. Give me a heads up so’s I can make a proper plan.
a little ditty by Gil Scott-Herron, he put it to music later,Ill post the link and then the words. They ring more true every time I hear them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVzv9GyAf34
You will not be able to stay home, brother
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag
And skip out for beer during commercials, because
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you
By Xerox in four parts without commercial interruptions
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle
And leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams, and Spiro Agnew
To eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre
And will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs
The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner, because
The revolution will not be televised, brother
There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mae
Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run
Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance
NBC will not be able predict the winner
At 8:32 on report from twenty-nine districts
The revolution will not be televised
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young
Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process
There will be no slow motion or still lifes of Roy Wilkins
Strolling through Watts in a red, black, and green libera
Wife deep fried some yesterday, they were pretty good. Daughter preferred the smaller ones that were sauteed.
LOTS more are popping up with all this rain, so we’ll probably be canning a bunch soon.
Yo Bwang,
I removed some timber last year and there are shrooms all over my place on stumps and stuff. You wanna come by and check it out? Teach a brother what I can and can’t eat?
“Another poon dream splintered on the rocks of reality.” --Peepod 07-25-2017
This old post popped up and I’v got to ask… Did you ever get Bwang to look at Mushrooms with ya? I’d love to be a part of that. I joined a group on Face book that identifies mushrooms, but still don’t feel confident about picking and eating them.
We’ve talked about it but haven’t done it. I’ll tell you this; I destroyed a PILE of oyster mushrooms very recently. At least as many as what’s in that picture above!
Still haven’t gotten out with 23, although we’ve tried a couple times. The only chanterelle flush we had this year was in July on JI, and we just ate what will probably be the last of them
That’s soft mozzarella, not butter. I remembered too late to get it to melt on the chicken
@Fred67 Chanterelles are the easiest and safest to identify because there’s almost nothing else to confuse them with here from what I’m told
I know there are mushroom ID classes that are taught by experts, pretty sure that’s how you get the license to sell wild ones here in SC but I never had a head for profits, I just share the extras. Would still love to take the class
