Shroom Time

[racfish]

Im going this weekend for a chanti trip. I'm just out of a cast and cant venture too far but I got a couple local areas to pick. Has anyone been picking yet?

[strider43]

I don't pick but I saw two ladies running around in the woods with a basket this past Sunday up FS RD 62.

[Cambo89]

Went out Saturday for 2 hours. Picked 15 lbs of Chanti's between 3 people. Seasons still good since there has been no frost yet. There are plenty more of them out there!

[G-Man]

We were out the weekend before last around McCleary and did well. I'd bet the Kitsap peninsula is loaded right now.

[NorseNW]

racfish -

I'm in the same boat as you. My cast came off two weeks ago but I'm giving it until this weekend before I head out. Still going to take it easy. My wife was out last weekend and got a few but she didn't venture very far. This weekend we are driving a bit deeper into the bush so hopefully have some more luck.

What did you do to deserve a cast? I hopped off my boat trailer onto the driveway. Landed half on driveway and half on the 1 foot ditch next to the drive. Fractured my ankle. Luckily it was after our trip to Sekiu so it didn't affect fishing too much. It has drastically interrupted my hunting, clamming and mushrooming season so far. Stupid boat trailer!

Alright back to the mushroom reports

[obryan214]

nope but my neighbors apparently had a good haul on my property of 'shrooms. 2 different kinds.

[bugmasta]

we have tons of lobster mushrooms behind our house. collect about 10-15lbs a week.

[racfish]

Those Lobster shrooms were great last year. We had so many Chantis that I dehydrated a lot. This year I pickled some and those were great. I've got a good ole Toyota truck to get me to them. The Lobster really smelled like seafood I was amazed.

[obryan214]

Those Lobster shrooms were great last year. We had so many Chantis that I dehydrated a lot. This year I pickled some and those were great. I've got a good ole Toyota truck to get me to them. The Lobster really smelled like seafood I was amazed.

pickled shrooms? never heard of that one.

[losaturn]

I don't eat mushrooms, but I went out a couple of times with my mom. Went out in the summer and picked morels, they were sticking out of the ground everywhere like weeds. Went out last Sunday, and we picked a 5gal bucket of #1-2 Pine mushrooms.

[MarkFromSea]

I'm very new at it but nailed a bunch of gray shaggy parasols a few weeks back, a few golden chanterelles here and there, some others. Still figuring out what to do with them so to speak. Quite a few bolettes, rosellas and others have come and gone in some of the areas that I've looked. I had scoped out some small chanterelles, left them to get bigger, came back 2 days later and they were gone. It's been fun so far! Looking for and trying to identify all the edibles.

[racfish]

Today my room mate went out and came home with a lot in a box. Maybe 7-10 lbs.We cleaned them with our brushes till 9pm. Pickling on sunday or Monday. were letting them dry a lil.I tried loading a picture but its too large.

[Hunter757]

I managed to pick up two large bags worth out elk hunting last weekend only took about 10 min they were everywhere but I was down south off hwy 505. I looked in vail tree farm and have not seen as many this year. I am hoping they show up soon. I take mine and cook them up with some heavy cream butter and onions and salt and freeze them they taste like the day you picked them. I will post up some pictures of my next haul.

[racfish]

The funny thing about mushrooms is how many people wont even try them. We gave away some Chantrelles to friends and they didn't trust our selection. Weve been picking for years and I have never died before. People get freaked out on food you forage for. Their loss.

['OL GREY DOG]

i been pick'n for decades. was a good year till the freeze
i dry saute my chantrelles. if you look at other shroom threads you can find one from a few years ago has the process in detail but basicly ya toss the cleaned chunks in a fry pan ( i use cast iron for chantrelles it darkens them and adds iron to my diet some species require stainless steel ) on med or so and the water pours out of them. when you get to the point where your boiling them scrape into a pile on one side the pan and and take that end off the heat. boil the water down some in the otherside of the pan then stir together and keep cook'n repeat lol maybe repeat and repeat depending on how much rain we've had.
your done when the shrooms quit sweat'n and ya get a little browning go'n on lay 'em out to cool then bag 'em and freeze 'em. if you freeze 'em flat you could stack 50 lbs neatly in one corner of your freezer. then ya take them out break off a chunk and put the bag bk in the freezer.
it also changed my picking of chantrelles i dont clean 'em in the feild i'll brush off some dirt and such but it is far far far easier to clean them at the table warm and dry with a totty while your preping them for saute

[Mike Carey]

Mark, is that third picture what I think it is? That's a whole lot of Alice Through the Looking Glass mushrooms...

[Gringo Pescador]

All I know about mushrooms is the ones my wife buys in the stores and the ones with the blue rings we made tea with in high school . Two years ago they bulldozed our side street and made a 5 block "Green" street out of it with these water collection gardens and stuff. I've seen a ton of mushrooms growing in these gardens and last week there was a woman with a basket rooting around in them. If anyone lives in the Shoreline area and is interested in city shrooming PM me and I can give you the street location.

[racfish]

Ive been adding pine and fir mulch to my yard. Im planting some mushroom plugs this year.