"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Apr 11, 7:57 am, "Steve Peek" wrote:
"Gunner" wrote in message

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On Apr 10, 3:19 pm, "Steve Peek" wrote:

a handful of ramps and morels with
a few eggs is a meal fit for royalty.

Here in the PNW, its chanterelles and camas

We get the chanterelle here, but it's a late June through July thing. I
like to drop a chanterelle into vodka and let it soak for a month or so.
It's the ultimate martini.

Have to try that. But my 100 Proof gets make into Lemoncello. I've
need thinking to get a little still ....just for medicinal purposes,
of course.


Be very careful & tell no one, the revenuers are still about. They busted a
fairly big operation east of me a couple of months ago.

Years later I discovered a mushroom club and my
education continues to this day.

Love to eat em, but still very, very leery of picking em wild and I
don't hike the woods as well as I used to plus wild pickers have been
known to rob & shoot each other here over a good chanterelles patch.

We don't really have market pickers here. A few folks sell to the
resturants, but it's not an issue here. We have tremendous numbers of
species, but no huge patches of anything.

Perhaps you can help me ID this one below: In my neighbor's Doug fir
chip mulch, came up last year also. The nickle is a size reference:
http://s704.photobucket.com/albums/w...DSC_7797-1.jpg

It's one I'm not familiar with. There are many west coast species that don't
occur in the east. I'll hazard a guess though. I'm about 99% sure the genus
is Pluteus, species is a bit more iffy maybe atromarginatus. If you can get
a spore print (cut off the stem and lay the cap on a white sheet of paper
for a few hours) check the color. I suspect the color will be pink (this is
very subjective, think the flesh colored crayola). If so there are only two
genus (genii?) to chose from Pluteus of Volvariella. They are closely
related and I know of no poisonous species in either genus. Dear God, please
don't eat them based on a half-assed ID from an online photo!

Did ya hunt the wild ginseng back in the day? There is some big $$$$$
in that crop these days.

Yes sir, I used to dig enough to pay the winter heat bill and buy a little
Christmas cheer!