I've been putting up large quantities of dried and frozen wild mushrooms for a few days. These are some of the mushrooms I grow and a few other things I ran into running around in the woods having a good ol' time. Right now the good stuff that's out are lions mane, coccora, porcini and a few oysters. Also some puffballs, which I'm very fond of, especially browned in a skillet. Be careful out there if you decide to take up mushrooming. I highly recommend it, but it takes a while to get comfortable with identifying and eating stuff when there are always the possibility of eating something that will make you sick or kill you. What I do is mostly eat what I already know. This is a staple subsistence activity for me. I ignore lots of mushrooms I don't know and get on with finding what I do know and have already proven safe. If you live on the west coast I can pretty much recommend David Arora's books without hesitation. I use his small book All The Rain Promises a lot, but also own the large one, Mushrooms Demystified and use it quite a bit. I don't think I even own any others anymore. Once I got those two, I got rid of the rest. http://amzn.to/2fTRxzP
Foraging for Gourmet Wild Mushrooms, coccora, porcini, oysters, puffballs
A trip around the woods for two days collecting edible mushrooms. Lots of fun and very lucrative! For people that live on the west coast, you can't go wrong with this mushroom book, All The Rain Promises: http://amzn.to/2g0mkda Support me by using this link whenever you shop on Amazon.
