Morel Mushrooms...

[Timberwolf232]

Originally Posted by Stropes

Here in Illinois we put them in salt water overnight (not too much salt though). We then dip them in an egg and milk mixture and coat them in flour. Then pan fry in butter and add salt and pepper. Man are they good! Hope you had some luck!

Never soaked them, how does the saltwater make them taste?
Pan fried in egg, milk and flour with salt and pepper is almost my grandmothers recipe that we have done for years! (We add a dash of garlic powder with the salt and pepper and melt a little bit of crumbled parmesan on em at the end. )

mmmm now I'm hungry!

[Stropes]

I guess I really don't know what it makes them taste like. . .I've never had them without soaking them! It doesn't make them too salty, I can tell you that. I guess I always just thought of it like it was a long, cold bath. . .just cleaning them up! I know people who freeze them after soaking, but I have never done that. They just don't last that long at our house.

[Theresa1947]

I'm originally from Wisconsin and my Dad used to pick mushrooms all the time. Unfortunately, he never took me out so I could learn what the correct type to pick is. But, my Mom would cut them up into large pieces and fry them with onion and butter until they got black and scummy. They were delicious!

[dragoon_148]

I grew up in IL and have hunted morels since i was old enough to walk. We always found them on east faceing hills,around shag bark hickory trees,moss, heavy veggitation, Wild rose or thorn bushes, any where that that leaves were on the ground an what not next to all those . But i just discovered that they grow out here, so i'm gonna try it there are alot of types and colors the most comon ones i've found are Grays,Yellows/whites(these ones grow pretty big) and are reasonably easy to spot. An then there are black and snow bank. But i've never found any of those. I kow dad always said to leave ones that look redish purple alone an not to eat those. You can accually dehydrate them and keep them year round in zip lock bags.

But dose anyone know any places to go look around fort carson?