richbrew99
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Found this 7+ lb Hen of the Woods mushroom while out mushroom hunting this morning.
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as usual lots of porcini this year. in one spot they grow to the size of frisbees and then rot!
Found this 7+ lb Hen of the Woods mushroom while out mushroom hunting this morning.
that's a beauty! i love the hen. never find them here though. i find chicken mushroom and sponge mushroom regularly (in the same spot every year) but they are second-best compared to maitake.
as my mind wanders, here is something for chicken mushroom collectors. sometimes the texture, even of the younger bits, is too firm or almost leathery. obviously avoid the really woody bits, but put the rest in a food processor with steel blade, and process to a coarse crumble. then season and fry as you would minced meat, let it brown up a bit, add chili paste / mole if you want and simmer in there for a while, and make tacos. reaaaally tasty.
I like those peeled, sliced breaded & fried with breaded/fried walleye & fries.
Any resources available in the fall that I can use for alcohol? Like maple sap, berries, fruit. Harvested some apples with a picker much like in pic above but don't think apples are still around much
Kind of depends on where you live. Maple sap is a spring thing, and isn't used much for wine, but if you boil the sht out of it and make syrup, then yes you can make something out of it.
I think you can probably find a good deal on cider at a cider house now, but all the apples around here are gone. I think it's just too late for most things.
Sap won't flow in fall? I thought it just had to freeze at night and not during the day
Sap goes from roots to limbs to feed buds to create new growth. Now is the dormant season in colder climates.
Any resources available in the fall that I can use for alcohol? Like maple sap, berries, fruit. Harvested some apples with a picker much like in pic above but don't think apples are still around much
You might consider birch sap, though that's more of a winter thing, like maple. Wild roses form rose hips in autumn, they're a good source of vitamin C & are a good tea ingredient. Apples/crab apples are a good autumn fruit & can be found wild. Cranberries (highbush & lowbush), persimmons & mountain ash berries are autumn fruits worth a hike to harvest. Some friends & I spent part of last weekend picking elderberries, they're a summer fruit, but there are LOTS of them still on the trees right now & they're tasty, so maybe they can be considered an autumn fruit too.
Happy foraging!
Regards, GF.
You might consider birch sap, though that's more of a winter thing, like maple. Wild roses form rose hips in autumn, they're a good source of vitamin C & are a good tea ingredient. Apples/crab apples are a good autumn fruit & can be found wild. Cranberries (highbush & lowbush), persimmons & mountain ash berries are autumn fruits worth a hike to harvest. Some friends & I spent part of last weekend picking elderberries, they're a summer fruit, but there are LOTS of them still on the trees right now & they're tasty, so maybe they can be considered an autumn fruit too.
Happy foraging!
Regards, GF.
I love rose hips. Curious if they're fermentable
Does anybody know about harvesting oak lumber for oak cubes? I'd rather not spend money on something that's free , seems kind of stupid.
Seems like kind of a waste to chop down a tree just for a handful of cubes.
You'd also have to season the wood, which will take time, then experiment with baking times and temps to get a proper amount of toast/char on them.
Fallen oak wood is plentiful. A small branch or two is all you'll need to make up a bunch of oak cubes. Make sure it's freshly fallen, and not decaying. Remove the bark and cut into small chunks or cubes. Place them in a single layer on a flat surface and let them sit in a dry location. It won't take more than a few months for the moisture content to drop off with small pieces like that.
Then toast in your oven.
Anybody have a recipe for fixing Road Apples?
My grandma had a recipe for Road Apple Pie. She would ask us to walk along their road and pick some.
Road apples is slang for horse turds where I'm from.. So how's that pie taste?
We have herds of feral horses that roam our neighborhood.
Most of the ones that come in the neighborhood are pretty tame, the herds in the hill are fiesty.Do they bite your kids on the way to the bus stop
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