Kadakuda

Do you kow how many tons of morels, chanterelles, lobsters, pines, angels wings, boletes, and other mushrooms are sent out of this Province every year?

Most of those have, once you have picked them once or twice, nothing that you could confuse them with. It is as I said to C in another thread, take two or three a year, get positive ID and learn about them, learn how and where to pick. Don't push yourself and don't take any chances. Picking is supposed to be fun, not some sort of Saigon Roulette where you are holding a gun to your brain. Learn from your friends and your books.

Yeah, I get that alot too---majic mushrooms, nudge nudge, wink wink---WELL HELL!, that's just another nice thing about some mushrooms. I sampled some in the early seventies. It was interesting, but for me it was NOT habit forming lol, memories, lol. But I never picked them, I would'nt know a magic mushroom from a mesquite tree (lots of politicians never inhaled either, at least I am being honest).

Seriously; you say that for you the pleasure is only in the hunt and the marketing, they are fine things that I enjoy myself. But DAMMIT MAN! (lol) you have got to learn how to cook what you catch! It takes at least three legs to make a stool.

Whistle

hehe ya.....edibles are easy to id yes...but i think its the magic mushroom trickyness that spreads over to the edible side as well.. if that makes any sense...

what im tryign to sya is that a lot of people dont know anyhting about them so they hear all these stories of people getting sick and whatnot from mushroom picking...know what i mean.

i may not know how to cook, but i can cook 8) if i stand in front of the barby or the oven and fry soem meat up it always turns out great! but i couldnt tell ya what it is that i made. same sorta deal with mushrooms although im still a tad bad at cookign some of them. they jsut aint my texture.

if i can get paid and spread some joy for doing somthing i would normaly, not only do for free, pay money to do...well thats just groovy. man.

Kadakuda,

I sure hear that al right, nothing I like better thansomething for nothing, and there is nothing my friends like better than forest treats even more free than that (no effort).

I'll bet you do fine cooking, mushrooms tend to be a bit more complicated to prepare once you get away from the slab o'meat and shrooms thats all. But they are well worth the effort. When picking time comes around again I would be happy to lead you through some recipes if you like.

You sound like you do a fair amount of picking, wasn't this a great year? For some reason on the mainland where we pick there were few chants, but pines everywhere, never saw the like---didn't even need a dog. Which reminds me, I really would like to know what you thinik about training a dog to scout pines. The idea has been worming its way into my brain for several years and I have never had a talk with sanother avid picker about what they think.

Stuck in the rain---I wish I was in Tennessee!

haha, everyone lieks freebees....fresh local oens to boot.

i can cook, but its teh terminology that realyl gets me to be honest. i jsut do the heat till it turns another colour...if it looks right, feels right, later taste right its all perfect.

im not so much an active picker...im an active hiker. i have always been intereested in mushrooms but this is the first year of me pickign to eat type of game. actually its psynaut over here that helped me with a bunch of stuff and got me out there learning.

i personally could see dogs sniffing pines....i can notice the smell of them within a foot or so of them....im sure a dog could scope em out pretty easy. if not from afar, at elast where your walkign they could find those damned prized 1's under all that moss :twisted:

Kadakuda,

"I just cook it until the color changes and ..." Now that is what I have to do for a living. When people bitch I know I screwed up. The less people bitch the better you are allowed to think you are. What a game!

Stick with Psynaut he can teach you alot. Even if you don't like the texture or taste of mushrooms you must recognize the commercial value, the beauty, and the oportunity to walk around in the woods. In the end thats what we get for nothin'.

Thank you very much for responding to my query about training a dog to hunt those under the moss pines. APPARENTLY most of the hundred + members of this site have no opinion (or no clue, or the cat has their keyboard). It is so simple to respond, it is so nice to feel part of a family.

Actually, with the weather having been as warm as it has been, I am thinking seriously thinking about an Oyster trip, what do yoiu think?

Went out to a arboretum near me last week and found a few specimens of the Blewitt- from what I remember that is the only species I've found. I haven't been active in a while- for me January was a really bad month and I'm glad to get out of it.

Mark