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Old April 18, 2013   #1
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Default Morels in Oklahoma?

WOO HOO!

A friend brought me some fresh picked wild morels today!

I have been told so many times that they don't grow here! What a surprise!

Time to pick the last over wintering cauliflower, Brocolli, and maybe an over wintering small onion or garlic and saute in butter with them!

We will eat good tonight! Yippie!
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WOO HOO!

A friend brought me some fresh picked wild morels today!

I have been told so many times that they don't grow here! What a surprise!

Time to pick the last over wintering cauliflower, Brocolli, and maybe an over wintering small onion or garlic and saute in butter with them!

We will eat good tonight! Yippie!
Lets all hope you wake up tomorrow.

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No worries worth, Morels are VERY easy to identify and VERY delicious!
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No worries worth, Morels are VERY easy to identify and VERY delicious!
After I posted I was wondering if the spores waited all of this time for the weather you guys have had to sprout.

Some of the mushrooms here will be dormant for years and wait for the right weather to sprout.

There is a black gill looking Fungi here that will grow on a stump and totally rot it in a year.

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WOO HOO!

A friend brought me some fresh picked wild morels today!

I have been told so many times that they don't grow here! What a surprise!

Time to pick the last over wintering cauliflower, Brocolli, and maybe an over wintering small onion or garlic and saute in butter with them!

We will eat good tonight! Yippie!

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Sure Durgan, Here is both the Morels and my cauliflower too.
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Sure Durgan, Here is both the Morels and my cauliflower too.
That is not a Morel--no wait I was looking at the cauliflower.

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Sure Durgan, Here is both the Morels and my cauliflower too.
Beautiful. How many miles I have walked looking for morels!
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Have went looking for morels 15 or so years ago here in Kansas went with a friend
and even ate some of them but the pickin's are slim, good for maybe a one or two person operation, I'm not a big mushroom guy so haven't looked lately.
April, May I believe is when they come out here in Ks.
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Scott, Lucky You !!! Grew up in SW WI. and every spring would scour the hillsides looking for them. In Muscaday WI they have a morel festival every spring, last year because it was so dry they were running ads on the radio begging people to look for them so they'd have enough. My cousin sends me out dried ones every year, if he can find any. I love to cook them with butter and eggplant Very Tasty !!
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This is my mushroom cooking method.
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?RXDXZ 4 August 2010 Cooking mushrooms (agaricus bispous).
Cooking the (agaricus bispous), common commercial mushroom. I decide to experiment and have for several years utilized the following cooking method. The mushrooms are scrubbed thoroughly with a brush under water to remove any growing media residue. A pot on high heat with a slice of butter is placed on the heat and the mushrooms introduced. Any reasonable amount of mushrooms can be placed in the pot. The mushrooms are cooked (boiled in their own juices) for about fifteen minutes and stirred periodically. There may be a significance amount of moisture present, and this is absorbed by boiling without the lid being removed. A splash of soy sauce is added and stirred vigorously until all the mushrooms are brown. The finished product retains the mushroom shape, and is very meaty in texture. The finished product may be kept in the refrigerator and warmed up in a microwave for serving with little loss in shape.texture and taste, hence the mushrooms can be cooked prior to a meal. Often at family gatherings, I am asked to bring the cooked mushrooms, indicating the method has a bit of merit.

I use the same process on oyster mushrooms and morels, when I pick them. The end product is almost like a small steak. I like the idea of actually cooking them to their centre. Simple frying, which is the norm, other than placing in stews, only toasts the outside, and the centre probably doesn't get much heat.
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Looks delicious. I would show you mine, but they are gone. They didn't wait around to pose for pics!
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No worries worth, Morels are VERY easy to identify and VERY delicious!
VERY delicious is an understatement! We had out first of the season last night, just sauteed in butter, a glass of fine Washington Merlot to go with them, mmmm!
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I'm so jealous! I've never had morels but I love mushrooms. I like them sauteed gently in butter with a splash of wine or worcestsire sauce.
I don't wash in water unless they're just going in a soup. It tends to make them less tender/soggy and they soak up water. I wipe them with a damp towel to clean.
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VERY delicious is an understatement! We had out first of the season last night, just sauteed in butter, a glass of fine Washington Merlot to go with them, mmmm!
Agreed. There is no other food experience quite like morels, no matter how you prepare them.
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