Spent the weekend in Iowa and look what I found. I picked the perfect weekend and hit the mother-lode of mushrooms. We found four patches that yielded over 50 plus mushrooms. The mushroom tally for the weekend was 100 plus pounds. Locally mushrooms go for $15/lb and $50+ on the Internet. We eat all we can and give away the rest.

Friday afternoon about 25#


Saturday afternoon 28#


A fresh morel 5"


As big as my fist


A small grouping

Wow....Lucky, lucky, lucky!

Those are cool pics...do they taste good??

So are these the kind you make tea with or fry?

Anything taste good fried, but mushrooms awesome!

Fry. Dip in egg and flour, cracker crumbs or both.

hmm, knowing my luck, I'd pick the ones that make you ill, or kill ya

Yummmy Yummmmmy what a Chef could do with those

very nice I am from waterloo IA and Justin aka Starless Dragon from MN....pretty sure none from Texas can appreciate this...like Asparagus in the ditches...

Good job! Those run about $50 a pound in Austin, about $25 a pound to restaurants....

I'll give you a free day on raybob's for a pound or so. No gass money No lunch Money free.

On the contrary sir, I have a friend whose dad is from Indiana and about 3 years ago his dad went back home to go shroom huntin. After hearing what they had to do to get the mushrooms, much of which was illegal and sounded like stuff people from east Texas do, I had to try them. WOW!! I felt privileged to share in his shroom huntin success. They are DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEElicious!! He floured them and them fried them in butter. It was like dinner and dessert all in one.

Cool pics!

Just cause I'm in Texas does not mean I can't appreciate the wonderful morel!!

http://www.morelmania.com/images/MM040720086.jpg

I will give up the opportunity to pick wild mushrooms and gladly live in Texas.

I can buy mushrooms. You can't buy being a Texan. };o)

I should have had you pick me up some A.E dip, grazzianos sausage, drive to pella and get me a few duth letters! Way to go on the morels. My buddy has been killin em lately. Cut em in half, fry em up, mmmmmm good!

I picked those as a kid in Michigan they are great sauted with some venison backstrap

LoneStarCarper....man you are from Waterloo???????? LOL
I am from a small town about 30 or 40 minutes to the north!
Been through Waterloo many times!!

As a kid I loved picking morels....do they ever taste good!!!!
I'd love to get back up there and pick some of those babies!

Cool pics I bet they are good but i Havent seen shrooms like that before.

Do they cause Hallucinations?

Man those are weird looking !! I am curious to see what the look like prepared and ready to eat. I love mushrooms, do they taste similar to the ones you get at the stores around here ?

I'll post prep tomorrow night. As for the taste, they are very unique. Some compare the taste and texture to that of a meat.

They taste nothing like anything you have ever eaten before.

yummy

fry them in butter and dump them on butter fryed venison ummmmmmmmmto die for

These are not psilocybin shrooms.

Just kidding.

Here's how I prepare the mushrooms. Cut in half and soak in salt water to remove the dirt and bugs. Dip in egg, roll in flour/crackers and fry in butter or oil.

Holy cow those look good. Your making me want to try some. Are they sold around here ??

Now that's the cats meow right there!

I am in the mushroom farming business. The Morel is the most sought after mushroom available. I have never picked a Morel or know what best measures to find them in, but you cannot commercially grow a Morel. They just come up naturally in the woods. Avg wholesale mkt price is about $20/lb and can get as high as $40/lb when supplies are limited. Your best bet in locating some around the metroplex area would be either to check w/ Central Markets, Market Streets, or maybe Whole Foods. You might could buy some fresh online also. These are only available in the spring, so if you are lucky enough to find a gold mine like Pat Martin did, enjoy 'em......there isn't a better tasting mushroom out there!

Good mushroom huntin.......Okie

what kind of stuff do they grow on? im wantin to go check the woods near my house so i can try em.

They do grow in Texas, you just have to know where to look. BTW, the season down here is way over, gonna have to wait until next year.