Griso goes foraging

[lucian]

After some good rain and a few morning frosts the mushrooms are showing up everywhere. I'm relatively new to the world of shrooms but am  enjoying the  learning experience. Had a beautiful 60 degree day so hit the backroads and found a bounty of oyster mushrooms. We will pickle them and stash them away for the long winter ahead. Anyone else like hunting for mushrooms?

   

[cliffrod]

Very cool- we do a little mushrooming here, but aren’t very educated in terms of diversity so stick with what we know.   As a chef, I recognized a huge bloom of chanterelles a few years ago after a large multi-day rain event over near the SC/GA state line.  We picked around 10 lbs(!) filling every container we had and then spent the next 2-3 days identifying them, testing small samples of them and then enjoying the harvest.   We keep think we’ll go back when conditions are right and get more, but haven’t yet. 

With no puffball mushrooms around here lately, we’re still eating dried and marked-down mushroom from the supermarket this year.

Gotta ask- Do you do fiddlehead ferns in the spring?  They were always a big deal in VT in the spring.  sadly, that’s not a local option here in SC.

[lucian]

Hey Clint, yet to find any chanterelles yet, lot's of oysters, some chicken and hen of the woods and lots of brick tops. Also found one lions mane that was beautiful and   resembled crab meat in texture. Absolutely go fiddlehead hunting every spring and have a few good spots close to home. Also dipping for smelts in early spring is a blast. Been enjoying your CX thread awesome find! Great to see you getting out on it already!