Salvage the Summer Mushrooms?

[Gavin]

Ness, I would look in Oak & Hickory woods...usually on a sloped spot where the hill drains.

 

 

[ness]

Thanks guys.
I've never even had them, so I bought some dried ones the other day.  Goinna have them with a steak tonight, I think.

 

[BilletHead]

    The ones I dehydrated turn out a bit rubbery when reconstituting for using. Let me know what yours are like Ness please. I pulverize to reuse for thickening and flavor in dishes,

BilletHead

[ness]

I will let you know how it goes. Other dried mushrooms were rubbery for me, so I know what you mean.

[Johnsfolly]

Ness

If you have been getting consistent rains like we have been the last couple of weeks then you should be able to find chanterelles. Look in the areas the Gavin and BH suggest. I also have been finding them on benches below a wooded slope. Once I do find a patch, I like to look along the same elevation on the slope instead of down or up slope. It seems to me that the mycelia grows horizontally and not vertically along the slope. Kind of like trolling a contour at the same depth you found fish. This is a fishing forum.

[ness]

The dried ones were nasty. 

[ness]

oops. Moved to 'What's Cooking' thread

[BilletHead]

  Yea I thought you might not like the dried chants. Other types are supposed to be better. I have some dried hen of the woods I may try to see what they might be like. I really liked what I did with the dried chants on the whats cooking thread. IT was fine!

BilletHead

[Johnsfolly]

I like to cook with dried porcinis. I will soak them in hot water to reconstitute. Mostly do that for the intense flavored liquor than the actual mushroom. Then i use the liquor and mushrooms as a braising liquid for shortribs or squirrel, etc. Real interested in grinding any dried chants in sauces like BH did for his tomato sauce.

[Johnsfolly]

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