This post could be an e-mail to Anne, who is currently loving morel mushrooms and brought some to our G3 dinner party this Saturday (stay tuned for the writeup), but I thought I’d share a little more broadly. The folks over at bluishbarn.com have been a-hunting for morels it seems, and invited others to participate. I’m coming across this info a bit too late perhaps; from their May 7 post: “The scoutabout continues this week after work, through the weekend.” Maybe it’s not too late to contact them and join their hunt. But if it is, we could take some notes from michiganmorels.com and try it ourselves. Any seasoned hunters out there who can keep us from poisoning ourselves?


There’s a drool inducing recipe for morels over in the Times dining section today. Very simple, but sounds quite lovely. If only we could locate enough morels to make it without paying 30 dollars.
Every year I say I am going to go morel hunting now that I live in Michigan and every year the “season” comes and goes before I realize I’ve missed another one. Next year I am planning ahead – maybe we can come up to my mom’s place for a weekend next year (early may!) and hunt around here. My mom said she heard her painters saying “hey, it’s good weather for the ’shrooms” and she asked if they were morel guides and they said no but they know how to find them and they go out picking an then they sell them for $15 a pound (undercutting the markets).