wuteversbitin424 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 I know the farmers market but i dont have the time for that. I wonder if someone there would buy them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rps Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 I come up with close to 8lbs sunday...i didnt know they went that high. If a person was to get a bunch where would you sell them? Come to Holiday Island. Let's make up an incredible dish to use them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuteversbitin424 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Lol sounds like a plan...i adapeted your one pan pasta dish to suite what i had and its delicious and the chanterelles take it to another level. It basicaly wild mushrooms and sweet peppers. I had some trumpets and cepes as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rps Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Lol sounds like a plan...i adapeted your one pan pasta dish to suite what i had and its delicious and the chanterelles take it to another level. It basicaly wild mushrooms and sweet peppers. I had some trumpets and cepes as well Outstanding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Agnew Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 There's a book titled "The Mushroom Hunters", which goes into great detail about the people that actually make a living collecting and selling wild mushrooms, and the middle men that buy them and then sell them to high end restaurants. Great book. Apparently the collectors don't get but a dollar or two a pound for them, while by the time the restaurant buys them they are paying 4 or 5 times that much, sometimes more. And a lot depends upon the condition of the shrooms when the collector goes to sell them. The ones getting the most money are very meticulous about cleaning the product before selling it. The mushrooms have to be nearly perfect and very clean to get good prices. So don't expect to make that $27 a pound if you find somebody to sell them to! Much of the commercial mushroom pickers operate in the Northwest, from California up through Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and western Montana. They follow the fruiting northward and upward into higher altitudes as the season for each species progresses. Morels in Montana, for instance, start showing up in the river valleys in late May, but may not show up in high altitude forests until August. Out there, the choice places are burned forests the year after they have burned, and all the commercial pickers keep constant track of forest fires. They descend upon choice burned areas in droves. People who just want morels to eat themselves, like us, are pretty much forced to find little out of the way patches, they don't have a chance to compete with the commercial pickers on the big burns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuteversbitin424 Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Thats some good info Al...thanks! One things for sure...if it ever stops raining the chanterelles should be very abundant for a little while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Agnew Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Mary definitely has mushroom fever. She first suggested I go out behind the house again this morning to see if new ones had come up. Some had. I collected about 2 pounds. That got her more excited, and this evening we went to another local area, and in about 30 minutes we collected more than 10 pounds. Which was fun...but cleaning 10 pounds isn't. I cleaned them while Mary cooked them and vacuum packed them to freeze, according to instructions she found online. Just finished up a few minutes ago. BilletHead 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trythisonemv Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Just found another pound in the in laws front yard! Big pretty smooth chants.I'm grateful to all of you guys for all the pictures and comment it has made me mushroom crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted July 11, 2015 Author Share Posted July 11, 2015 It sure can get under your skin trythisonemv . Yes I think at times the Mrs. and I are a bit touched to head in the woods and sweat for finding fungus. We picked another five pounds early this morning. Bonus finds more milkys. Made another batch of potato chant soup. That stuff is great! while it was cooking I just quickly cooked the milkys in butter then a dash of salt and pepper and we ate them on crackers. Need to decide what to do with the rest of the chants. I know tomorrow will be doing jagerschnitzel with goose and some will top that. This has been the most bountiful year that we have ever had. It is amazing how the mushroom network can survive in the ground to appear in places that have not been wet like this for years. BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh   " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh      "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead   " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Agnew Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Yeah, we swore we would stop with the picking after the 12 pounds day before yesterday. But I was going on a 4 mile hike back to a remote small creek today to see if it had any decent fish in it. Mary handed me a couple of plastic grocery bags just in case I stumbled upon some chants on the hike back out. The creek, as it turned out, didn't have many fish (it used to, but not this year), but I filled up one of the bags hiking out. After about 10 miles of hiking and wading today, I'm letting Mary clean them rps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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