BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???

Subject: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 10:44 AM

Well, "Mergul" (Morelle Mushrom) season is upon us and I reckon I can atke my one-good-arm self back in the woods where the poplar trees grow and find me a breadsack full but...

...what to do with them???

Last year we soaked them to get the ants out of them, of which there were planty, and then fried them... They were tough as shoe leather...

So, please share your recipes/preparations...

Thanks ahead of time,

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:09 AM

Here you are sir Bobolink.


G

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:28 AM

Wow, G-Man, that is one very nice website... Now all I need is for 'um to pop up and get found... I ain't the best at findin' 'um but I'm gettin' better each year... There a folks who been hunting them all their lives and they can spot one from 50 feet away... Mr. Clifford says that one year there was a light snow that fell makin' it easier to see 'um and he got a gallon of them in a few minutes...

I donm't know if I believe that???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: Thompson
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:25 PM

And did you make ants in chocolate with the inhabit-ants?

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:56 PM

Bobert, where I come from you can usually find morels near mayapple patches or on the southern side of slopes. Others say in burned areas. Usually nobody tells anyone else where they find morels, but I'm giving you the straight stuff here.

Soak 'em in salted water to kill the bugs (several changes of salt water is recommended and then fry 'em up in butter (REAL butter!) and garlic. Not too much, now -- just enough to heat 'em up.

Treat 'em kinda like the way to prepare snails for escargot.

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: RangerSteve
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 03:20 PM

I think Bobert wants to eat the morels. The way to prepare snails is to toss them in the trash. They are not food.

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 04:01 PM

Obviously you do not live in the rural areas of Ole Virginny.

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: Peace
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 05:25 PM

"The way to prepare snails is to toss them in the trash."

I agree with that. Throw 'em in there with that damned escargot stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: mandotim
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 03:07 AM

They taste fantastic as a replacement for the mushrooms in Boeuf Bourguignonne, and I also use them to make a flavoured olive oil similar to truffle oil.
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 04:44 AM

I wish I could find them round here.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: Beer
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 07:23 AM

Other than frying them I can't help. Hope some good receipt comes along because I just love them.
Hay!, maybe you could smoke them.
Beer (adrein)

Subject: RE: BS: Morelle Mushroom Recipes???
From: mandotim
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:06 AM

Nice cooked with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon too. They grow near me, so I use them a lot in season.
Tim