My sister has harvested delicious mushrooms in New Mexico and our neighbors in Asheville forage for wild mushrooms, too, with morels being a delicacy, of course
So it was remarkable to find (my gardening companion discovered them) these giant "yellow" morels. It's apparently late in the season, even for this far north.
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The key fob is there for scale. |
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Ready to chop |
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The second two harvested. |
They were delicious, even just cooked in a bit of olive oil without salt or pepper. I wanted to see what they tasted like "plain."
There's lots of interesting information about morels; I found it fascinating that yellow and black morels both include several species, and some are basically a "species complex."
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