Tree Mushrooms...

[ADC]

aka. oyster mushrooms... I found my first ones of the season the last time I went shrooming. These I eat. (can't get people to buy them ) I love them. To me they are as good or sometimes better than morels. Anyone else collect them?





~ADC~

[swamprat84]

I stick to morels. I have heard of all of the other edible shrooms that there is and "know" what most of them are. I juts dont trust myself...lol to many look alikes.

[cj]

I'm with Swamprat on this one. Even after reading many ID books, I'll stick with the morels.

[ADC]

You guys are really missing out. Take a look at them pictures I posted, they are easy to reccognize. Look for the fins underneath to run all the way back to the tree and pick them when they are fresh. I've eaten hundreds of them, never been sick yet. I'll bet Hillbilly has tried em' too.

~ADC~

[cj]

ADC, I'm sure you are correct. And I'm sure they are tasty, but I have seen four varieties that bare a striking resemblance to those, fins and all, but just a slight variation in each one. They are close in appearance, but yet 4 totaly different mushrooms. I'm not going to try each one until I figure out which is edible. My luck, the last choice would be the correct choice.

[Deadfox]

ADC your a brave man

[ADC]

Come on CJ, they probably won't kill you. ;D I haven't seen any that have fins to the tree, smooth white/cream colored tops and almost no stem except these. Almost every one I find is on dead elm trees as well.

Slice them thin and put them on the grill in a cast iron skillet with a stick of butter some garlic salt.... mmmmmmmmmmm! ;D

~ADC~

[cj]

I'll try and get some pics posted ADC.

[hillbilly]

those are very fine eating, i dont find very many of them myself.
If i'm out looking for mushrooms, and i'm not after morels, i'm looking for "hen of the woods" and "chicken of the woods" both are similar to the one posted in above pic, but a bit smaller, an they grow in a cluster, normally on dead logs or old stumps, sometimes on live tree's. The hen of the woods has a brown fringe on the edge of the mushrooms, the chicken is all white.
I also like puff balls, chantrels(would love to find a patch of them, $29.99 a pound, eat your heart out ADC) and other various fungus plants...

[glow=red,2,300]Hillbilly [/glow]

[ADC]

Some how I knew you'd tried them HB. cough... cough... redneck cough... um, I mean yea... ;D

~ADC~

[hillbilly]

always keeping the man down...

another one for you "less than steel" stomached folks, caught a nice batch of crappie yesterday, and had a nice batch of fish eggs for breakfast...ever had fisheggs?

[glow=red,2,300]Hillbilly [/glow]

[ADC]

Yes, I have HB. They were just OK nothing to write home about though.

~ADC~

[hillbilly]

i figured you had tried them cough cough wouldprobablyeatanythingthatdoenteathimfirst cough cough....

[glow=red,2,300]Hillbilly [/glow]

[swamprat84]

lol nice real nice...just hope that he never finds you hillbilly...lol

Youre not doing great for someone who wants to go shroom hunting with him next year...lol

BTW...I always save the eggs from my fish. They are good but kind of like grits IMO...they taste like whatever you cook them with.

[ADC]

LOL HB! I asked for it. ;D

~ADC~

[badger]

Fried some myself, and couldn't finish them. I'll stick to fillets.

[conejo]

love them fish eggs, just don't try and eat those big bluecat eggs lol

[hillbilly]

darn straight, tried to eat the eggs out of a 10lb channel one time, lets just say wont even think of trying them again.

Hillbilly

[bigpat]

I've had fish eggs,wasn't too impressed. Good survival food. Now wild mushrooms is a whole nother game. Delicious. I don't find a lot of morels around here, but I do get quite a few of the oysters, and what we call "greenbacks". I have a book about Adirondac mushrooms and I try different ones occasionally.

[iowatrapper]

Isn't there a way to test if a mushroom is safe to eat by laying in on a white sheet of paper and if it lays a spore spot its unsafe? I don't trust my self to know between safe and unsafe except when dealing with morels and puffballs.

[bigpat]

I've never heard of that paper method. I pretty much stick with the ones that don't have any "look-alikes". If I'm trying one for the first time, I eat just a tiny bit. If I wake up in the AM I try a little more.

[trapnfool]

I love mushrooms, but never picked my own. I should have payed more attention when my
grandfather was picking them. I just don't trust myself.

[Zeak]

Love those oysters, taste like steak to me.

[bowhunter1970]

I only look for morels,,,and I'm not sure why, because I just give them away. (I dont like mushrooms at all)

[oblio13]

Oysters are one of our favorite 'shrooms. We dry enough to last us all year.

We even have a favorite tree for them, my sharp-eyed wife spotted it while she was driving:

[bobcat]

I always stick to morals.

[bglong]

You guys ever try the tooth mushroms?

Now there is some good eating too!

[trappersam164]

what do the tops of them look like?

[rustytrap]

YOU GUYS ARE BRAVER THEN ME

i guess I'm not confident enough to pick and eat wild mushrooms but from the post and pics from you guys morels are pretty easy to identifie but dont know if their are any in central new York

[naturelover]

ive only ever ate morels and chicken of the woods. but i'm willing to try enything once, as long as it wont kill me. if yall can, post more pics of the good funguses. im shure most of us will at least enjoy looking for em.