Sure wish I had a nice thick steak ready to be grilled! Found these in the yard this morning while I was mowing. These are Morels and taste wonderful!
Interesting Captain, how do you tell the difference between real ones and false ones? I don't usually eat anything that grows in the woods. Jerry
Lucky you Capt.! Isn't it fun finding edible delicacies on your property that are unexpected? I found out my morels are in multiple beds. Now if I could only find some chanterelle spore, my woodland garden would truly be the "perfect" woodland. Bet those steaks are on their way.
I have friends who belong to the Boston Mycological Club & I go mushroom hunting with them...only them. I don't trust myself either, Jerry, to properly identify mushrooms.
Those are REAL morels alright. I don't think I have seen a "false" morel? We get them here, but so far have only found two of them in my yard. The one went bad before I found the second one. I can ID some mushrooms, like the morel and the staghorn one in the fall. And the death angel. DONT EAT THOSE! I do not touch any other kind but the morel and the staghorn ones, IF I am in the mood for mushrooms.
I have never heard of a false Morel either. I remember as a kid maybe 10 years old, of being in the woods with Mom and Dad, hunting Morels. We would find a grocery bag full. One year as we were near the fence at the edge of the woods, something spooked a hen pheasant and it flew into the woods. But it didn't clear the fence and rung it's own neck on it. My Dad picked it up and stuck it in the paper sack. We had pheasant with mushroom sauce for supper. I think that was the last time I went mushroom hunting.
