Was in the woods all weekend hunting for these:
Any guesses? No fair for you midwestern guys to tell!
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| Author: | poysntixels [ Tue May 12, 2009 2:26 pm ] |
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Was in the woods all weekend hunting for these: Any guesses? No fair for you midwestern guys to tell! |
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| Author: | Joe [ Tue May 12, 2009 2:28 pm ] |
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Are these like these?   viewtopic.php?f=5&t=29737 |
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| Author: | Joe [ Tue May 12, 2009 2:29 pm ] |
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Honestly, they look like dried up testicles. |
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| Author: | backtrack [ Tue May 12, 2009 2:32 pm ] |
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Seriously Joe, you might want to see a doctor... |
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| Author: | jcrazy [ Tue May 12, 2009 2:54 pm ] |
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Ewwwwww. Dried up Testicles? lol |
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| Author: | PaulieVinyl [ Tue May 12, 2009 2:54 pm ] |
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...or at least rehydrate your testicles. |
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| Author: | melek_taus [ Tue May 12, 2009 4:42 pm ] |
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| Author: | poysntixels [ Tue May 12, 2009 7:53 pm ] |
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yup, morels. We went out for 3 days, seems to be a little early yet. The kids found several pounds but we old duffers used our secret mystical hippy ways and found a couple of pounds on our own. The spring woodland flowers were pretty trippy, too. Hoped that the rattlesnakes were up, but it's still too chilly up here for 'em. Did find some nice deer's teeth though. Yes, those alien brains (or testicles) are good fried in butter with a little rosé and some fresh ground pepper. Good raw in salads, too. |
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| Author: | geotaro [ Wed May 13, 2009 6:48 am ] |
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poysntixels wrote: yup, morels. We went out for 3 days, seems to be a little early yet. The kids found several pounds but we old duffers used our secret mystical hippy ways and found a couple of pounds on our own. The spring woodland flowers were pretty trippy, too. Hoped that the rattlesnakes were up, but it's still too chilly up here for 'em. Did find some nice deer's teeth though. Yes, those alien brains (or testicles) are good fried in butter with a little rosé and some fresh ground pepper. Good raw in salads, too. Do you have the GPS coordinates for where you found those? 
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| Author: | jcrazy [ Wed May 13, 2009 6:50 am ] |
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Theres a difference between colors of Morels that poxysntixels and geotaro picked. Is there a difference in texture, flavor or tenderness? Or maybe different location, different color? |
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| Author: | poysntixels [ Wed May 13, 2009 8:15 am ] |
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geotaro wrote: Do you have the GPS coordinates for where you found those? Nope. Don't do much GPS myself and the valley we were in is mostly a dead zone, phone-wise. The variety of coloration is a mystery to me; I think they might be varieties within the species. We have 3 distinct colorations up here; the yellowish that I shot, a black and white variety that is neither so dark nor so contrasty as geo's and a very light, almost white tan. We're trying to find out if that's a varietal issue or if it's based on local environment differences. They all seem to taste the same and the dark ones seem to be a little more firm, the yellows a bit more crumbly. Are the morels out west associated with dead elm patches? |
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| Author: | geotaro [ Wed May 13, 2009 8:41 am ] |
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I was kidding about the GPS. We do have a couple of sites GPS tagged on our property ("morel hill" etc.), but know where we will find them now anyway. These locations are closely guarded secrets, so if someone asked me for the GPS coordinates, I would just laugh. Don't know about out west, but we do seem to find our morels near living elms... though that may just be a coincidence because there are elms all over the place. Also, they seem to favor the southern facing slopes. |
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| Author: | poysntixels [ Wed May 13, 2009 3:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien Brain Sample |
geotaro wrote: I was kidding about the GPS. We do have a couple of sites GPS tagged on our property ("morel hill" etc.), but know where we will find them now anyway. These locations are closely guarded secrets, so if someone asked me for the GPS coordinates, I would just laugh. Don't know about out west, but we do seem to find our morels near living elms... though that may just be a coincidence because there are elms all over the place. Also, they seem to favor the southern facing slopes. Yup, elms, southern etc. Found out today from a teaching cook that the morels in the west are a different variety; often called "burn" or "burn-over" morels because they tend to come up after forest fires... evidently common in NW coast, or so I heard today |
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| Author: | geotaro [ Wed May 13, 2009 4:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien Brain Sample |
poysntixels wrote: geotaro wrote: I was kidding about the GPS. We do have a couple of sites GPS tagged on our property ("morel hill" etc.), but know where we will find them now anyway. These locations are closely guarded secrets, so if someone asked me for the GPS coordinates, I would just laugh. Don't know about out west, but we do seem to find our morels near living elms... though that may just be a coincidence because there are elms all over the place. Also, they seem to favor the southern facing slopes. Yup, elms, southern etc. Found out today from a teaching cook that the morels in the west are a different variety; often called "burn" or "burn-over" morels because they tend to come up after forest fires... evidently common in NW coast, or so I heard today Yes, there are people that keep track of forest fires just to go looking for morels on the area that burned later. |
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| Author: | poysntixels [ Wed May 13, 2009 8:13 pm ] |
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Do they come up the following spring then, like in the case of dead elms? |
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| Author: | geotaro [ Wed May 13, 2009 8:35 pm ] |
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poysntixels wrote: Do they come up the following spring then, like in the case of dead elms? That I do not know, but my sense was that this was not just a spring time event... |
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| Author: | cliff [ Mon May 18, 2009 2:37 am ] |
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so weird that there is 2 threads about morels... |
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| Author: | geotaro [ Mon May 18, 2009 4:30 am ] |
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They are scrumptious... Plus the thrill of the hunt when stalking wild shrooms compares to stalking wild toys. |
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| Author: | poysntixels [ Mon May 18, 2009 7:02 am ] |
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Plus I didn't think to look to see if anyone else was doing this... geotaro is pretty patient! |
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| Author: | bob242 [ Mon May 18, 2009 11:35 am ] |
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What's the moral to this story? |
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| Author: | geotaro [ Mon May 18, 2009 11:45 am ] |
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bob242 wrote: What's the moral to this story? Keep you testicles hydrated... |
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| Author: | ---NT--- [ Mon May 18, 2009 11:47 am ] |
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bob242 wrote: What's the morel to this story? [Ba dum, tssssss] |
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| Author: | poysntixels [ Mon May 18, 2009 1:41 pm ] |
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What if they're naturally hydrated with swarthiness? AAaarrrrgghh! |
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| Author: | geotaro [ Mon May 18, 2009 2:26 pm ] |
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Umm, what was the question again?
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| Author: | poysntixels [ Mon May 18, 2009 9:12 pm ] |
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Hmm. Reading back, I think that I'm happy that I forgot! Aging is not all negative. |
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