Mushroom Monday - Winner Winner
Winner winner chicken dinner for this #mushroommonday
I wasn't expecting to find chicken of the woods this early in September.
It was a typical walk in the forest with my daughter trying to reduce her energy so she can finally sleep through the night. She kept saying mushrooms mushrooms!
I was focusing on the nice blue sky through the forest. Then I decided to take a look to see if she actually found any mushrooms.
Off in the distance I spotted bright orange on a burnt dead tree. Large batches of Chicken of the Woods. We got stickers bushwacking it through the Virginia stick weed but it was worth it.
Sadly the big chunks were already too tough. We did find enough soft chunks for a meal though. This particular chicken was quite thin and flat, there are at least three different types of chicken of the woods that grow here and they are all edible. I'm not sure what this thinner one's name is but it should be fine.
It was easy to wash off, now we will try and integrate it into some kind of Indian lentil dish.
That's all for now, hopefully I'll find some of the fatter chicken of the woods later in the season.
Thats a beautiful forest, it doesn't look scary unlike other forest you'll think a lot before entering. This one's just so peaceful and beautiful. And that mushroom has a unique color. So it's edible 🤔
Yes this is one of the best edible mushrooms one could find, it tastes quite a bit like chicken and has a similar texture.
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I've never tried this type of mushroom, but now I'm thinking about it! I have a place that has just that kind of mushroom! That must be your little girl crossing the bridge? Very nice pictures and a lovely forest, looks almost like in Sweden.
This is one of my favorite mushrooms and really easy to identify for beginners. It tastes just like chicken the key is finding it before it gets too tough. I found this one growing in an oak forest.
Great find. One of my favorite mushrooms to cook up. We have already found a little here. We put it in a pasta bake as a chicken replacement. Yummy.
I've noticed around three species of it here, there is one version that is almost redorange and super crinkly, this flat one I found then a fat pale orange type. The fat one is the best it almost resembles insulation foam.
I wonder if insulation foam would absorb flavor and hold a nice texture in cooking as well as chicken of the woods? 😂
Pretty much the same thing as a mcdonalds or culvers chicken sandwich, hits you like a lead brick in the stomach.
Maybe goes good on
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I've had a decent bbq chicken pizza before. Probably could work.
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