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09/28/2013 03:34:33 AM · #1
When I lived in the Pacific Northwest - Northwest BC, Terrace area to be exact - there were so-called pine mushrooms (Ponderosa something-or-other) growing at the base of pine trees apparently 100yrs or older. The university-age tree planters would come up in the summer to plant trees and many would stay on for the fall pine mushroom season.

They were harvested and shipped off to Japan where, dried, a pound of them went for $450. I recall selling two mushrooms, a grade 1A and I think a 2,for $45. I got $35 alone for the 1A. Most of the time though I found, kept and ate grades 4 and 5. Nice cinnamony smell to them, they can get pretty big and seem to retain their flavour quite well.
09/28/2013 01:35:23 AM · #2
Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Time to resurrect this thread again as I found six pounds of Chanterelles this morning. Could be an awesome season this year in the northwest! :)


Indeed a good year for the area. My neighbor brought home a big bucket of Chanterelles last week. She said she and her friends each got a bucket of the same size within 30 minutes on private property somewhere not far from Eugene. She was kind enough to give us have four big guys that we cooked up in a risotto. Lucky for all you local mushroom lovers, my husband and I will remain not a threat. Dunno what it is, but mushrooms just taste like mushrooms. The risotto was still good, but it had that air of mushroom about it that lingered in my sinuses for hours. Oddly enough, I craved chocolate really bad afterwards.
09/27/2013 08:18:58 PM · #3
09/27/2013 08:14:46 PM · #4
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Time to resurrect this thread again as I found six pounds of Chanterelles this morning. Could be an awesome season this year in the northwest! :)

Lucky you!


+1, wanna invite me over for dinner? ;)
09/27/2013 08:10:19 PM · #5
Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Time to resurrect this thread again as I found six pounds of Chanterelles this morning. Could be an awesome season this year in the northwest! :)

Lucky you!
09/27/2013 07:56:25 PM · #6
Time to resurrect this thread again as I found six pounds of Chanterelles this morning. Could be an awesome season this year in the northwest! :)
10/07/2010 11:48:38 AM · #7
Just don't go spraying your spores all over the place. ;)
10/07/2010 12:38:03 AM · #8
Think I'll continue to get my 'shrooms at the grocery store... this thread scares the spores out of me.
10/07/2010 12:14:14 AM · #9
They are so beautiful indeed .. my husband is an artist, oil is his medium, and he paints beautiful mushroom paintings that take my breath away. He has been an avid amateur mycologist for over 25 years and can identify, in the field, over 150 species so I always feel very comfortable eating what we find. I never tell others what is safe however as I wouldn't want that responsibility. You are wise to err on the side of caution.

Good luck on your photo hunt Louis and I hope you share your shots.

Message edited by author 2010-10-07 04:11:36.
10/06/2010 11:31:48 PM · #10
Wow! I'm still too apprehensive to eat snythting, but I'm fascinated by the variety and beauty of mushrooms. I'll probably do a photo hike this week.
10/06/2010 11:26:29 PM · #11
Louis, Tippler's Bane is Coprinus atramentarius that will sometimes make you ill if you drink alcohol before or after eating it - based on the video it looks like you are right. Edible when young. Hunting mushrooms is a passion of me and my husband and we have a decent collection of dried shrooms .. have eaten about 30 odd species so far and have never gotten sick yet .. including Amanita velosa, which was quite tasty cooked in butter.
10/06/2010 11:08:49 PM · #12
Thanks... i bought a book on mushrooms of Ontario after uploading the video, and I believe 5 is the Pear-Shaped Puffball, which grows on logs. You can see the beginnings of the well-formed pores this species has. I'm pretty sure that 2 is Oyster as you suggest. I'm almost certain that 3 is Tippler's Bane.
10/06/2010 09:54:48 PM · #13
Not an expert .. fast look at the video led me to believe the following - #5 is not a destroying angel as they do not grow on wood - all amanita grow in the ground - #4 - possibly a Blewit - #3 - possibly a coprinus species - #2 - old oyster and #1 is not readily apparent to me ... would help to have more info - not saying this is correct as there are slight variations from one coast to another and to really be sure one needs to examine them in real life.
10/06/2010 06:01:00 PM · #14
Originally posted by scalvert:

Dibs on your 5D. ;-P


Langdon.........we need a 'Like' button for comments...............
10/06/2010 05:28:51 PM · #15
Originally posted by Louis:

Anyone with a spare minute and twenty-nine seconds? We were on the Trail this past weekend, and there were a surprising number of mushrooms of all varieties. I took this video of the most interesting ones. I'm completely new at identifying them, but tried my hand in the video captions.

There are five varieties. In the order they appear in the video, I've listed them as:

1. Honey mushroom
2. Chicken of the Forest
3. Unknown
4. Unknown
5. Young (non-flowered) Destroying Angel

Can anyone confirm/deny, and help me with the unknowns?


Nice video. I couldn't identify any of them. I've never been able to find chicken of the forest versus the other zillion fungi growing out of the side of trees.
10/06/2010 04:53:57 PM · #16
Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Had to share the thrill of the last hunt. 5+ pounds of Chanterelles. Yummy! Tried a new rosoto recipe which was good, but I think I like them better with the onions and bacon grease. :)



*salivating heavily* Hey if you have too many mushrooms, Achoo, send em on over...yummm....
10/06/2010 04:33:36 PM · #17
Anyone with a spare minute and twenty-nine seconds? We were on the Trail this past weekend, and there were a surprising number of mushrooms of all varieties. I took this video of the most interesting ones. I'm completely new at identifying them, but tried my hand in the video captions.

There are five varieties. In the order they appear in the video, I've listed them as:

1. Honey mushroom
2. Chicken of the Forest
3. Unknown
4. Unknown
5. Young (non-flowered) Destroying Angel

Can anyone confirm/deny, and help me with the unknowns?
10/02/2010 08:50:36 AM · #18
Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Had to share the thrill of the last hunt. 5+ pounds of Chanterelles. Yummy! Tried a new rosoto recipe which was good, but I think I like them better with the onions and bacon grease. :)



Nice haul
10/02/2010 12:16:18 AM · #19
Had to share the thrill of the last hunt. 5+ pounds of Chanterelles. Yummy! Tried a new rosoto recipe which was good, but I think I like them better with the onions and bacon grease. :)

09/16/2010 06:54:19 PM · #20
So just to pass on the recipe, I had the chanterelle's by frying some bacon, setting it aside and leaving 2 tbsp of the grease in the pan and then frying a pound of coarsely chopped mushrooms with a coarsely chopped walla walla onion. Add the bacon and voila! It was very good!
09/14/2010 03:58:05 PM · #21
I agree with GeneralE on the witches' butter. It's edible, and its noted that it is added to soups. There is a variety that looks a bit like it, but its lobes are no irregular and it is slimy instead of tough, like witches' butter.

As far as venturing to try one, I don't ever do it when on solo trips, and I have only tried ones that are easy to identify and I am positive about. I've only tried puffballs and king bolettes, both of which are choice for edibility. Puffballs are good to eat so long as they're white inside (there are many varieties of puffballs, so when I'm saying puffball here, I'm referring to the variety you put up, which is most probably the giant puffball). Smaller puffballs must be cut open lengthwise to make sure they are not amanita buttons, which are toxic. A puffball will be solid all the way through with no differentiation of stalks or caps, whereas an amanita will have the beginnings of a cap or stalk. They look like this before the cap opens up. Many of the puffballs are considered choice, though. Interestingly, some cooks apparently use the large puffballs as an eggplant substitute, or batter and deep fry them.

Also, Louis, I perused around my book for other options for your yellow specimen, and am pretty convinced my initial thoughts were correct and that it is a fly agaric.
Just to throw out an intersting variety, there is a mushroom known as the fried chicken mushroom, and, not surprisingly, is purported to taste like fried chicken when you cook it.
09/14/2010 01:32:17 PM · #22
"Witch's butter" -- I like that.
09/14/2010 01:12:16 PM · #23
Originally posted by Louis:



Very beautiful, but I'm sure highly toxic.

Probably a variety of "Witch's Butter" fungus -- likely not actually poisonous but almost certainly unpalatable (to humans) ...
09/14/2010 12:32:17 PM · #24


Very beautiful, but I'm sure highly toxic.
09/13/2010 11:38:47 PM · #25
Originally posted by Louis:

Yeah, that's what ghostlyspoon thinks too. I really should get that book... this is one of the few I remember from it. aren't you nervous about eating mushrooms? Not sure I'd ultimately have the courage.


Right now I stick with a few that are hard to mistake for something else. Chanterelles, once you have a few characteristics down, are pretty easy to identify. Morels are the same way. I don't think I'd have the courage too far beyond that without consulting some other people.
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