Morel Mushrooms

Nirvana • Apr 27, 2010 8:14 pm
This year in my driveway I discovered Morel Mushrooms. I had never had them before and I found about 3 lbs of them. I sold 2 lbs and kept 1lb. Retail they are $35/lb. I got $20/lb and bought a bag of dog food. :D
So in the end the dogs got to eat and I had Morel mushrooms for the first time. Rolled in flour and sauteed in butter. Yum :eek: ambrosia for sure! :love::heartpump I would pay $35/lb. :p:
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 27, 2010 8:23 pm
If you enjoyed them that much, they sound like immoral mushrooms. :haha:
Nirvana • Apr 27, 2010 8:25 pm
I think they should rename them!:eyebrow:
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 27, 2010 8:27 pm
Then they would go to $100 a pound. :lol:
Undertoad • Apr 27, 2010 8:27 pm
Morels in the driveway! That's awesome! Is there a lot of old growth around for mushrooms to develop? You could find more...
Nirvana • Apr 27, 2010 8:45 pm
Its like my wild black raspberry bushes, they only thrive in the small acreage that is fenced off from the cows. In the short time I have been a "mushroom hunter" I noticed that they don't grow where livestock can meander about.

My cattle dog keeps the cows away from the house and the driveway mostly. The shrooms seem to like thick wet almost swampy beds of leaves near downed trees. I can tell the type of ground by how it feels underfoot. I wish there were more but I doubt it. If it rains this week I will look after the rain. Sometimes they just pop up. [wonders why they are not called phallus shrooms?]
TheMercenary • Apr 27, 2010 8:51 pm
Wait now, magic mushrooms grow on cow poop.
Nirvana • Apr 27, 2010 8:56 pm
TheMercenary;652145 wrote:
Wait now, magic mushrooms grow on cow poop.


Might have those but I never looked. I don't care to vomit to catch a buzz I am a lightweight :blush:
Clodfobble • Apr 27, 2010 10:42 pm
I had to google them, so at least now I know for sure there aren't any in my driveway. Who did you sell them to?
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 27, 2010 11:14 pm
Nirvana;652146 wrote:
Might have those but I never looked. I don't care to vomit to catch a buzz I am a lightweight :blush:
No no no, you don't puke from mushrooms, that's peyote. ;)
Gravdigr • Apr 28, 2010 2:07 am
Around these here parts, some of 'em calls them there morels 'dry land fish'.
DanaC • Apr 28, 2010 3:55 am
Dry land fish? That's an awesome name for them.
classicman • Apr 28, 2010 9:33 am
Nirvana;652125 wrote:
This year in my driveway I discovered Morel Mushrooms. I had never had them before and I found about 3 lbs of them.


Wonderful! Try them sauteed in butter with lots of garlic salt & pepper - They also make outstanding soup.
Nirvana • Apr 28, 2010 11:54 am
Clodfobble;652156 wrote:
I had to google them, so at least now I know for sure there aren't any in my driveway. Who did you sell them to?


A local produce market and you would have thought I brought them gold bars :)
Nirvana • Apr 28, 2010 1:08 pm
These are yellow morels
classicman • Apr 28, 2010 1:13 pm
WOW! So jealous!
Nirvana • Apr 28, 2010 1:20 pm
You should have seen the old lady customer at the produce market in line after me. She asked me where I got them I told her my drive way. I thought she was going to follow me home!:eek:
Pie • Apr 28, 2010 1:42 pm
That explains the white panel van following you home... :tinfoil:
Shawnee123 • Apr 28, 2010 6:11 pm
When a 'shroom hits your eye on a big pizza pie
That's a morel!
When the sidewalk goes by and you spot some fungi
That's a morel...