Giant black morels

[Alan]

I inoculated my two bags of spores today. I mixed them in with a good dose of wood ash, spaghnum moss, and worm castings and took them into the edge of our woods where traditionally I find mushrooms yearly and I thought they would do best, I went in and raked back the leaves, scarified the ground a little bit, inoculated the ground and covered them back up with leaves.

Hopefully in time this will grow into those delicious mushrooms or "dry land fish" us Hoosiers know and love.

-Alan

[canadamike]

I would like to point out to the gentleman living in the region of certain mountains that the french people are the ones who revere the glorious morel, that their heroic descendants who fought the Crown of England as much as his know it very well and indulge in the guilty pleasure of what is so precious a delicacy, and that they are far too cultured to call it a mere fish, albeit of the dryland variety, and would never qualify a delicious bean with the ugly term ''greasy'', being far too respectuous of the divine importance of great nourishment to be so vulgar and common about it...

In the interest of the gastronomical integrity of that rich culture that thought you how to eat well, but is looking at the american food habits with much despair, I am,

Yours truly,

Michel Lachaume
Honorable great-great-great-great -great-great-great-grandson of Louis Joseph Lachaume, Captain in the army of the King of France and founder of the Fortress of Louisbourg

[Alan]

Aha, but the man from the Appalachian mountains needs to point out to our friends in the great white north that we come from a long line of Native Americans and of Irish imigrants who believe word play to be a somewhat silly game of cat and mouse that only the Frenchies would engage in due to their "Ego-Centric" mannerisms. LOL


No, I'm just playing friend. While I understand that you French-Canadians think of these words as "uncivilized" and maybe even of poor taste I must say that you have to see us Irish decendents are the salt of the earth and have lived our lives as survivors, opporotunists, and folks who just generally understand that life has to be lived day to day. When we came to America we held deeply onto our basic culture, a "Folk" culture if you will, one in which we describe things in the way in which they look, appear, and by all means are, an act which may seem barbarick to the French but is of the very essence of the culture of the Appalachian mountain people, a people who seek only but a few things, communion with earth, communion with god, communion with friends and families, and to live life simply, the way that it had been done for several thousand years, and indeed the way the Appalachian people continue to live. What you don't see as culture is a very deep culture ingrained in the very blood of our peoples, for you see we are humbled by nature, we break thinks down to their simplist components, because afterall everything on the earth is of the earth and made from the simplist parts pieced together into a larger picture.

So, when an Irish American stumbled upon a Morel mushroom and took the time to fry that baby up all cut in half and saw that indeed it was the shape and had a similar character of a fish it was common sense which said that this indeed is a "Dry land fish". It is part of our culture. Just as it is part of your culture.


Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great grandchild of a number of Bargers, Buttlers, Bishops, and Wilsons, simple salt of the earth folks who I have a lot of respect for.

And this is not even exploring my Cherokee heritage which is very strong in my blood.

So if you want to call a "Greasy Bean" anything other than a "Greasy Bean" please don't do so to an existing variety, wait untill you and I have bred a new variety and then we will give it one of those there fancy dancy French names that I like so much.

Also, they shall remain "dry land fish" in my house. If we say Morel in my location no one shall no what I am speaking of.

I hope I have not offended, just had to explain.

[blanesgarden]

Alan, and Mike....
Sorry to butt in.....
I was raised in southern Indiana, now live here in the deep south.

Ive asked folks down here about mushroom hunting season, all I get is....Yea man, we used to trip out on those cow patty-shrooms. Folks down here have never heard of a Sponge Morel.
I delt with this problem my first couple of years down here, and then quit asking about it.

Then in 2004, I did a search, and found out that....Those Shrooms dont even grow here. Man, I felt like a heal....
Alan treasure what ya got, cause not only do I miss going out in the woods back in Knox county,IN just to pick some of these, I also miss that Egg-Battered, Fried Up Mushroom, that most of mankind cannot get.

Territorial Seed Co...has a spoure kit..I guess.....
But it can take up to 9 months to a few years to see any results.

Is the old saying still true..."If its Hollow, Ok to swallow?"
thanks for the taste bud drools.....Blane!

[canadamike]

Why the heck would you offend me you fought bravely for your folks and I had a ball writing this King's Captain bit ;D

OH! And by the way, we acadians of origin mixed a lot with crees, and VIVI could even have her card if she wanted. Proud to see you stand for this heritage!!

And frankly, although not offended a bit, I was hoping for a humourus duel à la '' my father is better than yours '', albeit with the swords of your words well sharpened, but apart for the first paragraph, you answered seriously . You even ended by hoping not to offend me, while I wanted my ass kicked Where is the spirit.? Got to kick ass man ;D ;D For once it would have been friendly!!

Love ya brother