Morels opened the fungi season of 2025!
Hola, setero! Today I share fresh mushroom impressions from this year, - just this week I had an excellent hunting. If you think May is too early and nature has no mushrooms for you than you are wrong! For the 2nd time in my life I was lucky to encounter morels! They are delicious mushrooms, but there is much more benefits in this specie - especially for a cameraman like me. Their attractive visual side is beyond the imagination. They hide so well among fallen leaves (partly due to their tiny size). Searching for morels is always massive crawling on your knees :) and the more difficult the task - the more valuable is the prize!
I made these captures at the end of the day, in the rays of the setting sun - which effectively illuminated their dim (good mimicry!) brown caps and provided them an attractive amber color. Lucky me!
They are very tiny! and hard to find, especially when they hide among the dead leaves.
I also came across few Gyromitra species. They are less tasty, but much bigger, and their cap resembles brains. Looks like a happy find to me too!
Unfortunately, the sun went down very soon and my mushroom hunt was over, but I didn't return home empty-handed. In the meantime, I've put my trofeis into the fridge - we plan to cook them with onions and sour cream and serve with pasta. (Not sure if I'll be able to take a photo of this dish.... but will see!)
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They don't grow here - I've never seen or tried them. What do they look like?
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I did not try them in my plate too (yet!) When it happens (hope that it be soon) I tell you.
As for your other question... they look like BRAINZ or some alien creature :))) just the outlook, hehe. very strange -- but sympatico! ☘️
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A verpa, a half free morel and a false morel. Over here the field guides don't recommend eating verpas due to some poison in it that is deadly to some people (though in Italy they eat them like normal mushrooms). The second ones are edible but when you cook them they kind of lose their nice texture. I still like the harvest the half free ones to fill up the basket. The last one has hydrazine in it which is toxic so most people don't harvest them. There is a tricky way of boiling them to remove the hydrazine to make them edible. I suspect the hydrazine is in trace amounts so if you eat lots of them maybe you'd be in trouble but one or two consumed every now and then shouldn't hurt especially if parboiled first.
Yeah, that is the case. I've read also articles that say - hydrazine depends on the usual level of temperatures in the local area. Locations with hotter temperatures make the mushroom produce this toxin, and N hundreds of kilometres to the north and minus 1-2 C degrees - researches state there is no trace of poison in these mushrooms, i.e. it is safe to eat.
But guides do dont conduct urgent researches - the info is being copypasted from and old sources on and on and on and on... )
So I join you in picking these mushrooms..... especially since they're so meaty!
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I always get excited seeing the Gyromitas from a distance only to realize it is the false morel. Though over in the state next to mine they eat them and I know they sell them canned over in Europe lol. So they can't be that bad. This guy has a pretty good debate on cooking them or not. https://foragerchef.com/on-cooking-false-morels-gyromitra/
Вживую ни разу сморчков не встречал... Как и подснежников. Хотя пару раз специально ездил на их поиски.)
Надо а) знать места, б) приехать очень вовремя. они любят раннюю весну - когда снег стаял только и все сырок. и чтоб солнце уже грело. секрет прост!
Теперь значит до следующего года.😒
Ну так я тоже не особо могу похвастать - но однажды видел их в начале июня! в ладожских шхерах на горелом острове. они там стояли и много, все засошхие-мумифицированные, прямо стайкой ))) это был счастье. но макро я тогда не владел, был простой дешевый полтинник , и снимал я в жипеги причем среднего размера кадра... из экономии, хыхы
Nice fungi hunt and even better that you came home with some to cook up. That did look a bit like brains, very interesting mushrooms and some great shots you caught there!
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Meow! Happy happy happy. ☘️ Morels encounter was my dream for a few years, you know. 🐈
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Грибы, уже? Сморчки что-ли какие-то? )
Так точно! два вида сморчков. лучшие весенние грибы к столу. ☘️
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