Rick's Ramblings

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Shrooms of October

Okay, you saw my first NJ fish.

Now it is time for my first NJ mushrooms.

We signed up for a mushroom foray for today at a local farm. What a pleasant surprise when we got there. Wonderful people, wonderful land. And a great “honor system” organic store where we bought some jam, tomato sauce, squash and onions. And, she had eggs and lettuce and…

But wait, before we go to the afternoon foray…

It was time to walk the dogs this morning. We walked toward Green Turtle Pond. The road is closed below our street for a while (what a pain), but that means no traffic for a while. As we walked in the “no car zone”, Lynne noticed a group of mushrooms growing on a tree a bit off the road.

I thought it was a Hen of the Woods and got pretty excited since that is a choice edible mushroom. But, after returning home and doing some research, it turned out to be a Chicken of the Woods—even better! Lynne went and took pictures. I went with a knife and brought it home.

It was 2 pounds of choice mushroom! (Which I am sure will end up on Lynne’s blog too.)

Okay, this mushroom is going to get washed, cut into strips and frozen. It will be great in a risotto, soups, etc. Since it “tastes like chicken”, you can use it anywhere you would chicken.

Now, to the afternoon. Our goal was Honey Mushrooms. Yum. And, we found some. Since it has been so hot and dry, there weren’t a lot, but this is the only time of year you see them, and we found enough to make some pickled mushrooms to serve on toast.

If we are here to post after eating them, we’ll let you know how they were

Comments:

1. Could you share the name of the farm that organized the mushroom foray? I’m interested in going on one.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  10/16/2009  at  11:33 AM

2. Two Pond Farm on Weaver Road in West Milford. Sorry, I don’t have their phone number. There is a nice honor-system farm store there too.

   Posted by Rick  on  10/17/2009  at  05:33 AM

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