Sure, it may be gilding the lily, but this easy morel mushroom recipe is the stuff of dreams.
Stuffed Morels: Out of the Wildfire and Into the Oven
A Brief Affair With Hen of the Woods
Oven roasted maitake with celeriac recipe.
Hunting Morels and Ramps in North Carolina
A hunt for morels and wild leeks in the Blue Ridge Mountains outside of Asheville leads to a host of edible discoveries.
So I Gather is On the Road
After years of threatening to do it, I’ve hit the road for a very long foray. Over the next several months I’ll be traveling the U.S. seeking fungi and chasing stories. In addition to finding baskets full of mushrooms, I’m hoping to tell the stories of some of the nation’s most interesting mushroom hunters along …
The Scent of a Yellowfoot Chanterelle
The yellowfoots surprise me. I’m down at the creek, between the trail and the creek, really, when I stumble upon them. Call them winter chanterelles, yellowfoot chanterelles, funnel mushrooms, like the Fins do. Craterellus tubaeformis—their official name—arrive at my feet in a surprising bounty. Yellowfoots I had not been expecting. Not here in Michigan at least, …
Oyster Mushrooms Redux
Do oyster mushrooms grow on the same tree over multiple years? In fact, they do. Back in May of 2018, I’d been looking for morels in Mills Norrie park, on the Hudson River’s eastern bank, when I ran into two couples in the woods. It was clear they were doing the same thing I was: …
Oyster Mushrooms While We Wait
“What am I eating?” my friend Danny asks, picking at the leftover pasta and oyster mushrooms cooling on my stove. To which I explain how I had just been out picking mushrooms a few days prior. “These are mushrooms?!” I’d forgotten he’s been telling me he doesn’t like mushrooms for a few years now. It …
Facing East, and Heading West
Throughout early May of this year I had a lot of success finding morels under tuliptrees. I’d been especially lucky finding morels under tuliptrees on southeastern facing slopes. That all came to an end recently. As I stepped from my car, heat enveloped me. It was pushing 80, hotter than I’d expected. This, I thought, …
Hunting Trees, Hunting Morels
Morel season in full swing and I am once again in search of hallowed ground. As a new-ish transplant to the Northeast, I don’t have a honeyhole to speak of. No spot has been handed down to me over familial generations; I haven’t had seasons of time hunting morels. Rather, I’m having to seek out …
Preparing for the Start of Morel Mushroom Season
With the snow receding, soil temperatures beginning to rise, and spring on the horizon my mind has been turning to morel mushrooms. Actually, it’s less of a casual thought and more of an obsession. Over the past couple of years, I’ve returned to Michigan for an annual morel hunt. My homeland may be one of …