Like Mushrooms?

Yes but not that kind. I developed a taste for field mushrooms when I was a kid. They were plentiful
on our property in Ohio. We would pick them, fry them in butter, and just eat a pile of them plain.

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We like mushrooms, but haven't been eating that many until we recently saw a program about the health benefits on TV. We've been picking up some baby Portobellos at Costco, and have always like the white button mushrooms. We had some baby Portabellos yesterday that were sauteed in olive oil along with some jar red peppers, over whole wheat pasta. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/05/13/mushroom-benefits.aspx
 
A couple of years ago,while doing a property inspection at a vacant house,I had to go down the side of the house to get to the backyard. It was a steep hill and was very damp and dark. I suddenly saw this "thing" and it actually scared me because it was soooo big and soooo weird loking. Looking at it closer,I realized it was a mushroom-a HUGE mushroom-about the size of a footstool. It didn`t have a smooth cap,it was almost like a brain. A few days later,hubby was with me as we were doing inspections in the same area,and I made him get out of the car and climb down the hill with me to see this thing. And there it was,just a collapsed,shriveled little pile. We had had freezing temps the past couple of nights and the freeze did it in. I was so bummed that hubby didn`t get to see it.
 
I love mushrooms always have, they are a big feature of Russian culture and virtually everyone is an expert. A few photos below of some we collected in a nearby forest to Lisa's dacha (country house) last September. I must admit I wouldn't know where to start sorting out the edible from the poisonous variety, in fact most of the ones I picked were rejected, though they looked fine to me :confused:

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The woods we collected from

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The collection

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The preparation

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Cooking


I must admit served with butter and some crusty bread, and washed down with beer, they were delicious!!
 
Love love love mushrooms. Those look lovely, Merlin. My family was very big on picking wild mushrooms too.
My ex is a fanatic when it comes to mushroom hunting, me not so much of a picker, more of an eater.
 
Psilocybins would grow on lawns when I lived in B.C. Easy pickings.

Now its regular mushroom rarebit on toast ....:D
 
SifuPhil said:
Just Psilocybe cubensis ... :cool:
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Yes they grow wild here, and I did go through a phase of growing them in the bedroom from imported Dutch growpacks, which were legal here for a while until banned in 2005 I still have some dried ones and some chocolate ones in the freezer, but don't feel the need for tripping anymore :cool1:

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one of the many packs I bought
 
During our homesteading days back in the Arkansas Ozarks we used to raise shiitake mushrooms which are grown on white oak logs. The hippie who lived across the hollow from me had a large commercial operation and he would inoculate my logs for me with the shiitake spawn. And all I had to do was water the logs, harvest the mushrooms and eat the mushrooms.

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We get quite a few Morel mushrooms every Spring. There are a lot of old dead tree branches on the ground in our forest, and when the warm Spring weather arrives, we usually get quite a large growth of Morels. Sliced up and fried in an egg batter, those things are delicious. Too bad their growing season is rather short.
 

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