[Kadakuda]

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

[whistle]

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?

[mark_h]

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
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