Mushrooms also popped up early in Hoosier forests this year. My son found a couple pounds of morels Palm Sunday weekend and I floured and fried them up for Easter dinner. Black, gray or yellow sponge, we pile them high between two slices of bread.
The annual Mansfield Mushroom Festival is the last weekend in April in nearby Parke County, Indiana. At auction, a pound of yellow morels goes for big bucks! Check out the Mansfield Village website.
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I never knew a shroom could be so lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the compliment!
Yum! You must know your mushrooms to be confidant enough to eat what you have. Delicious post.
Thanks, Mike. Learned to hunt as a very young child.
Exotic mushrooms are my favorite. I rarely ever buy button mushrooms anymore. I never realized until this post that I really want to go mushroom hunting. I also want to take a pig and go looking for truffles. Love the photos. Very beautiful.
I would go with you to hunt truffles. Also, if you ever want to hunt morels just let me know and you can come to my woods. Thanks for the compliment, Dezra.
And if you don’t find truffles you can eat the pig!
Oh yeah, I was going to look for those this year and try them. Gorgeous!
I hope you do get a chance to try them someday. Appreciate the compliment, Ann. 🙂
I was out taking pictures of trees yesterday and found some ‘shrooms, too. It’s useful to watch the ground after our rare rains because the ‘shrooms love the two or three days after the rains.
Glad you found some! It has turned off cold again here, so I don’t know if we will get a second chance at finding them, the festival isn’t until the end of this month!
I’ve never seen this type of mushroom here. Glad to know from your post that this is edible. I’d love to one day follow a course on mushrooms so that I can also do my own mushroom gathering in the forest without fear of getting the poisoned ones. 😉
Yes, you MUST be sure which ones are edible. Thanks for your interest, Malou.