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Morel Recipes, food pairings, morels with scallops
Aug 9th
Morel Recipes From the Nibble, gourmet food magazine: * Cooking With Morels * Food Pairings * Recipe: Morels With Scallops & Asparagus * Recipe: Mushroom, Ramp & Spinach Tart.
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Simple Morel Recipes
Aug 8th
I developed this gravy because I hated to waste the morel-flavored butter left in the saucepan after making a batch of classic fried morels. If you are impatient (or cheap) and fry one batch after another, the flour will burn and give …
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Where is the best place to buy dried mushrooms?
Jul 20th
I’m looking to start a small business, and as a part of this business I would like to sell dried mushrooms. Where can I find competitively priced dried mushrooms (particularly Morels)? I would need them in bulk so that I can repackage them in smaller quantities for resale.
Best reply by Paul the Oktopus:
I have never seen dried mushrooms. They would probably taste better to buy some fresh mushroom and dehydrate them.
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Where is the best place to buy dried mushrooms?
Letters from people about Morel Mushrooms?
May 1st
Can anyone tell me just were to go online to talk to others in Bucyrus Ohio about Morel Mushrooms? Or even were you would go online to read lots of letters from other people
about their finding Morel Mushrooms? Thank you much!!
Best reply by mark:
check one of these links
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=JYvgS6rDBYrW8QTU6vSyCQ&sa=X&oi=spellfullpage&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=2&ved=0CAYQvwUoAQ&q=ohio+mycological+society&spell=1
A local Mycological Society is your best bet
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Letters from people about Morel Mushrooms?
THE MOREL IS ALL OVER THE WORLD
Mar 30th
The Morel is one of the most sought after wild mushrooms in the world. Not only are they found in the U.S. they are found throughout the world. One good way to find out about morels is to talk to friends and family members to see if they no of any mushrooms being found in areas around you. One thing that a mushroom hunter is not likely to tell you is were they have found them. You will have to do that part on your own. There have been many of fights over territory. You don’t want to get into this so be careful. I have posted on this site to the temps and things you should no about hunting the morel.
Happy Hunting
Jim
SPRING MEANS MORELS
Mar 29th
Spring is the season for hunting morels. Of course, spring is relative depending on where you live. In the U.S., morel mushroom season begins first in California and the Pacific Northwest, then southern states, then concentrates roughly in the Midwest, stretching to a few eastern states.This is based on 2004 maps from Michael’s web site that reflect morel discussion board postings. Based on the 2004 maps, morels sprout from January to early June, with March 23 to May 3 being the most dense.
Here’s a map of April 20 to 27, 2004, which was the most dense week for that year:
Kuo, M., Zordani, R. & Bartlett, R. (2004).
Reported morel distribution & progress, 2004. Retrieved from the MushroomExpert.Com Web site: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/morels/maps/progress_maps.html
Please note, however, that Michael’s maps are based only on postings to his morel discussion board and four other discussion boards: morelmushroomhunting.com, morelmania.com, michiganmorels.com and morels.com. The maps are not intended to be scientific; in other words, they’re based on info provided by individuals who hunt morels and chat on Internet discussion boards! There are likely hoards of mushroom hunters who have never been on the Internet. Take Fred Baker of southern Indiana, for example; he’s been hunting mushrooms for more than 55 years and has never logged on to the Internet–and has no intention of ever doing so!
In Canada, morel season usually starts in May, and can extend to July, as the snows recede slowly in different regions. In southern Ontario and Quebec (the Lower Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Valley), Maritimes and southern Manitoba, morels have been found from May 4 to June 6. In the nothern coniferous forests, May 28 to July 8. Western mountainous regions, April 24 to July 5; and along the coast of British Columbia, April 18 to July 15, although morels have been found along the west coast of Canada as early as February. Further north, in the Northwest Territories and Alaska, morel season runs June 1st to July 30th, peaking at the end of June.
Generally speaking, the best time to begin looking for morels is when daytime highs in your area have been in the 60’s, with nighttime lows no colder than the 40’s. Rain is important, too. Mushrooms like it warm and moist–but not soggy. Morels grow where soil is moist yet well-drained–not oversaturated. If you have a dry spring, the crop will be sparse. If you have ample rain–but not an unusually wet spring–the crop will be plentiful. As Larry notes ( in Morels: True or False, pg 31), “Extended rains. . .frosts and freezes, droughts and heat waves all can have adverse effects. And remember, those effects are felt years down the road.” (Remember, it takes morels five years to grow.) Many mushroom hunters know to head out after receiving warmer rains.
As Fred says, “Warmth and moisture are the secrets for a good year.” He says morels need moisture, warm days and “warm nights, especially.” He adds, “If it’d get up to 80 and come a rain, they’d pop up in the concrete!” Spring 2004 was warm and moist, and Fred and his wife Tona found 440 morels that year.
| Carl Robinson, the Mushroom King of Mesick, Michigan, the Mushroom Capitol of the World, has even found morels near these pine trees on his property. Photo by Denise R. Baker, www.smartypantswrite.com |
At the time of this writing (Spring 2005), it’s been unusually warm in northwest lower Michigan for late March and early April, with highs from the 50’s to 70’s and lows in the 40’s. In an interview with Carl Robinson, 85, the Mushroom King of Mesick, Michigan–the Mushroom Capitol of the World–he reports that he’s going out mushroom hunting in a couple of days. “I don’t want anybody to see me!” he says. That might be tricky, as his Bronco sports a red and white magnetic sign in spring that reads: “C.G. Robinson, the Mushroom King.” Carl says, “Sk88 [his word for ‘scads of’] people want me to take ‘em out in the woods and show them where they’re at!”
When asked whether he pays attention to the weather or to what plants are blooming to know when to go morel hunting, Carl simply points to his head. “It tells me when to go,” he says. (So that’s how he got to be Mushroom King! The morels communicate with him through telepathy!)
SUMMARY: Morel hunting time begins around the average date of last killing frosts in your area and can be dependent on the temperature and moisture. Moisture, warm days and warm nights, the first blooming of wildflowers, can signal that it’s time for the first morels to appear.
MOREL MUSHROOMS AND SOIL TEMP
Mar 29th
Here is a quick post but helpful. When hunting for morels you should be following a temp map. Here is a link to a map source http://www.greencastonline.com/SoilTempMaps.aspx
Temps in your area should be in the sixties in the day and no colder than 40 at night. A rain before hand will sure help.
Happy Hunting
Jim
FINDING MORELS WORLDWIDE
Mar 12th
The Morel is one of the most sought after wild mushrooms in the world. Not only are they found in the U.S. they are found worldwide. They morels are found mostly in wooded areas buy also can be found along roadsides,fence rows,riverbanks,orchards,and even in cemetery’s. In The U.S. we have the dead elms that are highly prized areas. The elms were hit with Dutch Elm Disease years back. When you find an elm with the bark coming off there is a good chance you will find morels in that area. But don’t be afraid to search places that you might not think you will find them. I have found morels in a friends backyard. This was a total surprise to me,but just goes to show that you can find them about anywhere. Just keep looking and you to will find these sought after mushrooms.
Happy Hunting
Jim
Morel Season on Its Way 2010
Feb 25th
For all you Morel hunters out there. Now is the time to get prepared for the upcoming Morel season. Get out and search the areas you want to hunt. Start by looking for your dead elms in your areas and make note to were you have found them. This will make it much easier to find once the foilage starts. Get your gear ready now don’t wait till the last minute to get prepared. I no this is something that slips some of us by. If you are finding Morels in your area please leave your comments and will give other hunters an idea that they are up in your state or country.
To Your Success
Jim
How to Catch 100% More Morel Mushrooms Using a New Scientific Discovery
Dec 15th
If you’re interested in learning how to find more morel mushrooms, then this article may help you find more mushrooms then ever before.
Many of us know that spotting morel mushrooms is a tricky task. However, many of us would still like to find MORE of these scrumptious little guys wouldn’t we?
This article will help you!
Have you ever noticed that Morels always seem to “jump out” at you suddenly, but you never see them out of the corner of your eye?
There is a scientific reason for this, and it’s based on a new cutting-edge discovery in the psycho-cognitive field.
You have something in your brain called the Fovea. (pho-VEE-uh) It is the wide-screen area field of your vision.
The best way to describe the Fovea is by using a picture called a Venn Diagram seen below. The Venn Diagram below illustrates your Foveal field of human vision.
One circle is your left eye’s vision, and the other is your right eye’s vision. They overlap to make what’s called your “Foveal View.”
This is only 2 degrees of your sight where you interpret the highest resolution detail and color. Up to about 5 degrees of the Foveal View you can detect almost full detail and color.
Completely outside of the Foveal View (but still in your line of sight) is called your “periphery.” This sight is low resolution, tuned to motion and contrast only, not color or detail.
Foveal Vision and Locating Morels
Now that we understand how our vision translates information into our brain, we can better understand why finding morel mushrooms is so difficult.
We cannot see the mushrooms out of the corner of our eyes (because of our periphery) and therefore, we can only see them in our Foveal View. (Again, this is our highest reception of color and detail and is only about 2 to 5 degrees of your total vision.)
A very small range…
The only way to find more mushrooms, then, is to SLOW DOWN when we are looking because we need to see them in our Foveal View.
Admittedly, this is very hard to do due to the fact that this only makes of 2-5 degrees of our total sight!
So in this “fast paced” world we live in, how can we learn to slow down and see more mushrooms that can only be seen in our Foveal View?
Practice!
More specifically, practice standing still LONGER to allow for your sight to see more detail in your Foveal View. More mushrooms will “jump out” at you.
The best mushroom hunters (the ones who find the most mushrooms) only find more mushrooms that you because they stand still longer.
An expert rule of thumb for morel hunting is for every one minute you walk, you should stand and look for the mushroom for SIX.
A 6 to 1 ratio.
This is very hard to do, but if you can practice and learn that the slower you go the more mushrooms you’ll spot, you can increase your yearly bounty easily by 100%. And probably a lot more too.
That means if you find 100 mushrooms in a season, you may find as many as twice that amount by simply understanding how your sight works, its limitations, and that you must simply learn to stand still more.
One way to get better at this is to actually time yourself on two points of data.
• How long you walked on your mushroom hunt (total time)
• How long you stood still on your hunt (total time)
Subtract the time you stood from the total time you hunted. Then, divide your answer by the total number you hunted. This will tell you how long you walked. Shoot for 17% or less.
Here’s the formula:
t = total time hunted
s = total time stood still
T = total time walking
(t-s)/t = T (x 100)
Here’s an example:
You hunted for 100 minutes(t). You stood for 80 minutes(s).
Did you stand for enough time (goal 17%) to increase our mushroom bounty?
Let’s see the calculation below:
100 minutes total hunt (t) – 80 minutes standing still (s) =
20 minutes walking total
20 minutes divided by 100 (t) = .20 (T)
Multiply .20 times 100 to get the percent (.20 x 100 = 20%)
We walked 20% of total time hunted. Did you reach your goal?
No, you missed your goal of 17% by just 3%. Not bad though.
Again, your goal is a 1:6 radio. Walk one minute (17%) and stand and look for six minutes (83%).
This translates into standing and looking for about 83% of your total time in the field. And only about 17% walking.
Yes, that seems like a lot of standing because it is! However, if you can get this SINGLE task down, you’ll substantially increase your mushroom bounty. I promise!
Please respond if you found this article helpful. It is the most cutting edge information available, and it is my goal to use science to help you all find more mushrooms.
Thanks for reading. 
Garrett Todd
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Garrett Todd is a fellow hunting enthusiast from Kalamazoo County in Michigan. He has been taught by a 10 year mushroom hunting expert and now uses cutting-edge sciences to add further value to the mushroom hunting world by publishing useful information. Garrett also incorporates many well-known mushroom hunting strategies and even some unknown ones as well. |
