M-m-m! Morels!

It's that time of the year again. Time to go mushroom hunting! Spring is about two weeks early this year, and already people are finding the "little grays." I plan to go out this afternoon and try to find me some. The morel pictured is one of the larger, yellow ones that I found last year. They come later in the season and are much easier to find.


In a good year, we've found grocery sacks full and have gone in to town to a store parking lot, set the bags of surplus mushrooms on the tailgate of our truck and sold out literally in minutes (before the store even knows you're out there). We almost always have enough to dry and they are yummy later in soups and casseroles.  But the best way to eat them is fresh: floured and sauteed in butter.  Can't get enough of them!


For some reason, the past two or three years they've been scarce. Maybe the weather conditions haven't been right. Here's hoping for a bumper crop of the magnificent munchables!