Gellar
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The first batch of the year is always fried. Egg wash, light breading, salt pepper.
2021 Morels!!
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44hunter45
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Went out to a burn today with my son and got skunked.
Nick87
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Your drinking my beer
Gellar
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I like it.Your drinking my beer
Gellar
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I was turkey hunting and checked 2 dead elms and an apple tree and found about 1.5 lbs. when I got gone my wife asked if I was going to go find more. So I checked an old homesite with a lot of apple trees and found another 1.5 lbs. 3 lbs on the day! I’ve read stories about people finding the mother load in burn areas. The DNR does controlled burns sometimes in the fall and I always check them but have never had luck.
Nick87
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I like pretty much anything they make. Havent talked to anyone who has found any morels yet this year.
Gellar
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I don’t do the shandy’s. Today was the first I found. It’s usually close to peak right now. We had frost this morning. Weird year!
Nick87
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Yup frost here too. Heading for a hot dry summer my guess. Were due for one.
Salmonchaser
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No luck so far around LaGrande.
Gellar
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Found another 1.5 pounds this morning.
MarvB
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Gellar
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Good chance they had cow poop on them.
3P’s seasoning? YK
MarvB
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We’ll put you down for two seasonings then....where there’s poo there’s pee
Gellar
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Today’s morel dinner was a bacon-morel chowdah. 4 slices bacon, chopped
1 onion
3 stalks of celery
4 tablespoons butter
3-4 Yukon gold potatoes, cubed ( mine were really small
Morel mushrooms
1 quart of chicken stock, I used wild turkey stock
1-2 cups heavy cream
In a heavy Dutch oven. crisp the bacon and remove. Add 1/2 the butter and sauté morel mushrooms on both sides until slightly brown. Remove to a paper towel. Add the remaining 1/2 of the butter and the onion. Sauté and add celery. Add the stock and the potatoes. Bring to a boil and boil until potatoes are soft. Add in morel mushrooms and cream and heat for 5-10 minutes, stirring gently but frequently. Garnish with parsley or just eat it to fast to take a picture for hunttalk.
Gellar
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It’s impossible to do the #2 p without the #1 p but not the #1 p without the #2 p. They were actually in big thorny patches near apple trees so I don’t think to many cows got to them, but is in a pasture.We’ll put you down for two seasonings then....where there’s poo there’s pee
Gellar
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Tonight’s morel dinner: Cajun shrimp and morel cream sauce over fettucine noodles
johnp
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Great looking meal! Across the river in Grant co I have found 0 so far. I am blaming it on the dry spell and cold weather.
Gellar
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Thank you. We got a few rains last week that didn’t go that far south, but you got rain the past couple days we did not get. I have found about 4 lbs so far and all but about 12 of those mushrooms have been on north facing slopes under apple trees that are alive but have a few dead limbs on them. We are supposed to get frost again tonight!
JShane
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them some fine lookin vittles. WARNING Do not look at this thread on an empty stomach.
Gellar
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We didn’t cook any morels tonight but I put a load in the dehydrator for next winter! They go good in soups and sautéed but I don’t like the way they fry after they’ve been dehydrated. They are also nice on a steak or stuffed into a venison loin when it’s -20 in January.
