Saturday's morel forage was bright, brisk and bountiful. About 3
pounds. I'm thinking of a simple scrambled egg/morel/sausage feast
tonight.

Lots of different mushrooms out. Only two poisonous species seen:
Hebeloma crustuliniforme and Gyromitra californica. The latter was
probably more problematic as there were occasional small Gyromitra
gigas (Snowbank morel) out as well - which I have eaten before and will
probably eat again.

Also thinking about what to take to Quatro de Mayo celebration at work.
Maybe a salsa with morels? Any ideas out there?

Daniel B. Wheeler
www.oregonwhitetruffles.com

On 1 May 2006 10:11:17 -0700, wrote:

> Saturday's morel forage was bright, brisk and bountiful. About 3
> pounds.

I am sooo jealous of people who know where to harvest fresh morels.


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Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

On Mon, 01 May 2006 20:37:15 -0700, sf >
said the funniest damn thing :

>On 1 May 2006 10:11:17 -0700, wrote:
>
>> Saturday's morel forage was bright, brisk and bountiful. About 3
>> pounds.
>
>I am sooo jealous of people who know where to harvest fresh morels.
>
>

The wife and I snagged 8.5 pounds of them in about 90 minutes this
afternoon! It was her first time and now she is hooked.

No, we won't tell you where our secret patch is!

On Tue, 02 May 2006 00:23:37 -0500, Stuart Pedazzo wrote:

> No, we won't tell you where our secret patch is!

<snork> all I can say is "typical"!

<slobbering anyway>
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Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

On 2 May
(Stuart*Pedazzo) said:

>The wife and I snagged 8.5 pounds of
> them in about 90 minutes this afternoon!
> It was her first time and now she is
> hooked.

I saw fresh morels the other day at my local supermarket, Wegmans.

They were $50 a pound. Fresh black truffles were $300 a pound..

DOGS RULE

If I were getting $50/pound for morels, I'd take a week off from work
to harvest a hundred pounds or so. I know at least one area producing
well right now. But I'd only get about $20/pound _if_ I was selling
them, and that would not even pay for the gas to get to them.

I'm trying to think what variety "fresh black truffles" might be. The
season for T. melanosporum should have ended in late Feb. or March. To
have them in May would be extraordinately late. OTOH, maybe they are
early T. aestivum (Summer truffles). Summer truffles are _quite_ good
to my taste, and I think they are generally under-priced. Especially
when compared to the vastly over-priced T. magnatum.

Daniel B. Wheeler
www.oregonwhitetruffles.com