Morel season is almost here!!!(In Michigan anyhow,I realise it comes earlier the further south you are).How many of you are hunters? Share your amazing finds and/or recipes here.
I am also looking for other ways to preserve them. I have dried,canned and froze them.What is your preference?
My favorite hunt of the year is morel hunting. There are not many in the area, so I get as few as ten a year, or as many as maybe a hundred in a great year. I give them to the family members that like them, because it’s the hunt I like not the eating. I wish I had an area like Muscoda to hunt in. A person can pick garbage bags full of them in that area. They won’t really be around until mid May through the end of May in this area. I have a few key plants I see in bloom at the same time that I know means it’s time to look.
Peripherally-related mushroom article by Cecil, FYI: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/061229.html
Except once-in Rhode Island. I walk every day in the woods (I have a dog), and see all kinds of mushrooms-but never morels. Do they taste better than regular champignons?
My sister-in-law made some for me last year. They were awesome.
Then she said now I can say I’ve eaten real Wisconsin morels.
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Except once-in Rhode Island. I walk every day in the woods (I have a dog), and see all kinds of mushrooms-but never morels. Do they taste better than regular champignons?
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Are you talking about button mushrooms when you say champignon? If so,yeah they taste better,the taste is hard to describe but the best description I have ever heard is they taste like filet mignon covered in crushed walnuts.
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My sister-in-law made some for me last year. They were awesome.
Then she said now I can say I’ve eaten real Wisconsin morels.
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Just wait til ya get a chance to try Michigan Morels!