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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Chaos_ultt]
    #9842293 - 02/22/09 01:03 AM (15 years, 28 days ago)

The little leaf growing off a rhizome makes me think May Apple, but I don't know.  I never pay attention to them when they are that small.  I used to pick pounds of ramps every year and freeze them.  They would always go to waste.  Now I pick enough for a meal of liver and ramps for me and two other guys.  I swear if you eat a mature red one raw with salt it is psychoactive.

The only way I eat morels is either in a gravy or sauteed in butter over steak.  I've seen a lot of stuffed morel dishes but I wouldn't want to try them.  I go with what I know.


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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
    #9842412 - 02/22/09 02:31 AM (15 years, 28 days ago)

Nope, it's actually a nearly full grown Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)

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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Chaos_ultt]
    #9842742 - 02/22/09 06:51 AM (15 years, 28 days ago)

Interesting.  It must be highly variable in form.



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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
    #9843244 - 02/22/09 11:03 AM (15 years, 28 days ago)


dandelion fiddlehead fern and cattail shoot
some yummy plants that can be harvested while moreling.


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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: trigger]
    #9845220 - 02/22/09 04:59 PM (15 years, 28 days ago)

I made dandelion fritters last year that were pretty good

I really love the taste of violets.  I think they'd probably go perfectly with a nice bowl of ice cream.

I've never tried violet leaves, but they're supposedly edible and good.

Garlic mustard is delicious to me, but I seem to have some stomach problems after eating it.

A bit after morel season, blackberries are everywhere around me.  I like them in pancakes, and they can be used to make a good iced tea.

I hope to find some Jerusalem Artichokes this year.  I bought them from the store under the name "sunchokes" and they were really good.  They taste like a cross between a water chestnut, a potato, and a walnut.

Any other wild edibles that you guys enjoy?

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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Chaos_ultt]
    #9845405 - 02/22/09 05:39 PM (15 years, 28 days ago)

I hear Pig Nuts are pretty darn good.


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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Chaos_ultt]
    #9845963 - 02/22/09 06:54 PM (15 years, 28 days ago)

I've never eaten fiddlehead fern or cattails.  I chewed some cattail root once.  It wasn't too bad.

I've had:

Blackberries
Blueberries
Huckleberries
Black Raspberries
Ramps
Wild Garlic
Wild Onions
Strawberries
Paw Paws
May Apples
Sweet and Sour Cherries and
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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
    #9846034 - 02/22/09 07:03 PM (15 years, 28 days ago)

Hope to find some wild asparagus this year

I've never actually looked for it

Also going to try Day lilies (flowers and bulbs)


Last year I found exactly ONE wild strawberry, but it was the sweetest strawberry that I ever ate.  I always seem to find massive quantities of Indian strawberries, but they're small and pretty tasteless.

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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Chaos_ultt]
    #9846080 - 02/22/09 07:08 PM (15 years, 28 days ago)

Ha!  I've just started finding Indian strawberries.  You're right, they're not very good.

I forgot to mention wild asparagus.  Roadsides are good if you marked them the previous year and you can always check old railroad beds.  I picked a place in Colorado where I harvested 22 quarts.  Some of them were picked 20 yards behind an "organic" food store.  :grin:


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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
    #9846464 - 02/22/09 08:10 PM (15 years, 28 days ago)

the way i find wild asparagus is in the fall when its huge and quite noticeable, make a aspergrass-map, come back in the spring.



the wild strawberries near lake Huron in sandy areas grow to be the absolutely tastiest strawberries ever, anyone here go picking berries and sell them on the market/street conner? its profitable and fun!

below wild immature strawberry (super tasty strain)


here are some recipes of natural, wild, local, dishes that i like to prepare during morel season, great for camping.
          simply wild soup
the equivalent to 3 medium morels ( 1/2 cup)
one large beefsteak (only for me,these mushrooms are posionous)
1/2 cup of leaks (whites only)
handful of dandelion
3 6inch medium cattail shoots 
1/4 cup fiddle head ferns (5-8 heads)
a bay leaf or wild mustard if available
and optional a woodcock or partridge recommended, (squirrel, trout, anything that moves will work also!) 


chop everything 1 inch, mix 6-8 cups spring water and cook on low(campfire) 2-4 hours for best results, (at high 30 min will do)
its super fresh super yummy, vegetarian style is excellent too!...... (if you really want to spice it up and get earthy, toss a spoonful of nice smellin dirt in the soup, the sand will settle, the aroma and flavor come alive! iam serious)


there is a spot where i can pick all the ingredients within a mile its sweet! ill post other recipes later.


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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: trigger]
    #9847419 - 02/22/09 10:31 PM (15 years, 28 days ago)

Rock on!

I'll leave the squirrels to their business though :/

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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: trigger]
    #9848662 - 02/23/09 06:08 AM (15 years, 27 days ago)

A nice brace o' coneys would go fine with that soup.  Seriously delicious!

Wild strawberries, even great patches, can yield crappy tasting fruit if the weather goes bad.  I think the best tasting ones are rain, rain, rain when the berry is growing and full stop sun, sun, sun to ripen.  Too much rain at time of harvest, like most other edibles, yields watered down, nasty tasting fruit.  For me, the whole point of picking wild is to get great flavor I can't find in a cultivar.

Nice post.  :thumbup:


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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
    #9849622 - 02/23/09 11:28 AM (15 years, 27 days ago)

Where is that ginger picture from hongos?

I really think they have that plant mislabeled, or it is extremely variable in form.

Never seen any markings like that, and the lobes are never blunted like that either!

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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Chaos_ultt]
    #9850474 - 02/23/09 02:25 PM (15 years, 27 days ago)

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned wild watercress or wild sorrel(rumex acetosa). Both are good in wild leaf salads. Some others are chicory, wild marjoram, arrowhead tubers, lamb's quarters, borage, barberries, wild mulberries, juniper berries and tips for teas along with spruce tips, sumac, sassafras, wild grapes, beech nuts, pine nuts and locust blossoms, love those dipped in a thin batter and deep fried.

  And there's a berry here in West Virginia that grows on a bush like tree that I don't know the name of that are shaped like hawthorn berries but are a little smaller and are pinkish red (translucent like'ish) with little spots on the skins. When you eat just one or two, they are really tart tasting but when you eat a handful they are sweet and real juicy.

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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Chaos_ultt]
    #9850546 - 02/23/09 02:34 PM (15 years, 27 days ago)

It's from plant specialists.

http://cryptopedium.blogspot.com/2007/06/asarum-canadense-wild-ginger.html

I highly doubt they misidentified it.


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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
    #9851839 - 02/23/09 06:21 PM (15 years, 27 days ago)


Indian Cucumber Root, Jerusalem Artichoke, May apple, Wild Grape


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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Bobzimmer]
    #9851903 - 02/23/09 06:32 PM (15 years, 27 days ago)

My best place for morels has alot of black cohosh, jack in the pulpit,may apple,american elm,english elm,wild grape,dogwood,and ginseng in the area.

Lots of yellow and purple violets too.

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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
    #9852404 - 02/23/09 07:55 PM (15 years, 27 days ago)

This is why common names are not that good, it is not ginger but the rhizome tastes similar!
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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: inski]
    #9852457 - 02/23/09 08:04 PM (15 years, 27 days ago)

Exactly.


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Re: Morel Hunting Info [Re: gandalf579]
    #9852569 - 02/23/09 08:20 PM (15 years, 27 days ago)

I've tried some of those, others I eat every year but didn't mention it.  That's a great list although your state is known for wild edible foraging.  I'm surprised you didn't mention 'sang.

I always wanted to try chicory but usually wherever I find them the soil is too hard.  Same thing with Salsify, the Oyster Plant.  I see it every year and I've even collected the seeds but I've never picked a root to eat.  I've had plenty of wild watercress though.  Great stuff.  Wild Sorrel is something I eat every year when I'm out.  I just don't consider it because I never eat more than a plant or two.  I've picked Lamb's Quarters as a weed in the garden, turned around and had them for a vegetable.

I also like Marsh Marigold's.  They make a great wild spinach if the leaves are picked young.  I've never tried Poke either and I've weeded tons of it.

I've picked wild grapes and made jelly out of them.  Dug sassafras, peeled the roots and made tea, once.  Way too much work if you ask me.

I've tried wild nuts too, Walnuts, White Acorns, Hickory nuts and a few others.  Too much bother for me too.

I've tried violets dusted with powdered sugar once or twice.  Fancy, but again, not worth the trouble for me.

Some of those you mentioned I'm unfamiliar with.


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