Mushrooms

[larryours]

Anyone out there hunt wild mushrooms ? I'm talking about the one that are light to medium brown, they range from button type to the toadstool type, around here most people refer to them as "Toadstools" "Brownies" "Buckskins", they have gills under the crowns, and if you break a piece off "milk" will come out.
I like them just as good as Morels, if not better, but I wouldn't want to have someone eat a mushroom without first hand experience with them. I've been eating these since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, and I love them. Fry up a bunch, put on acouple slices of bread, right out of skillet, for a mushroom sandwich. They're great !

[L. Cooper]

We eat mushrooms regularly as long as I am positive about identification. Most of the time, with good field identification manuals and experience, we know what we have. If we don't, we don't eat it.

It is also illegal to pick things in National and Provincial parks, so we have to be in genuine wild territory. I'm also very nervous about locally found mushrooms because of chemical spraying for agriculture, road allowances, and power line control. Our local golf course produces lots of edible mushrooms under the right conditions, but I won't eat them.

But there are still lots of very good edibles out there to be had for the picking.