Slice 'em about a half inch thick. Dredge them in flour, enough to lightly cover them. Have butter or olive oil hot in the skillet all ready to go...Pop the...
Seth what you do with them is make pizza with them ok check this out first you slice them in 1 in. thickness maybe 3/4 of an inch. Fry on both side till brown...
... Be sure the balls are firm (they should feel kinda rubbery when tapped with your fingers) and after the vertical slice (to be certain they are not young...
Great recipe! I have done the same thing, especially as an appetizer to introduce differnet mushrooms to my skeptical friends. I do agree with Dick, however;...
I am at a job where there are literally thosands of these Boletes! I have harvested hundreds of Slippery Jacks and have removed the cuticles and am happily...
Many of species that are in or used to be in the Lepiota genus have rings that will detach. You can usually put your fingers above or below the ring and...
Went to greenville SC this weekend and hunted sumter national forest.It was a great trip found my first Pigskin puffball (scleroderma citrinum),Boletus of...
Had one of the best NAMA forays in the southeast at Tuxedo S.C. in the late Seventies It was marred by having some of the members (including me) arrested and...
In a message dated 10/7/2009 11:02:35 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dickiephyls@... writes: Had one of the best NAMA forays in the southeast at Tuxedo...
I hope someone in the group can give me some information. A park naturalist found a slime mold which I identified as Brefeldia maxima (Tapioca slime). I had...
Check Cantharellus infundibuliformis (winter chanterells). In some books it's craterellus. Try pine woods on old pine tree stumps and mossy logs . Or, low...
The season is now. They like cold weather but I seldom find them after the last of October or very early November. the taste is okay.  Taste is like...
Thanks for the info, I'll be looking for them next october, and hopefully I won't be busy putting in another new furnace and running ducting all month. I am...
If my thinking is correct "Porcini" is an Itlaian term for species of agaricus. Agaricus is the species one buys in the supermarket (the little white button...
Porcini is a type of Cep or Bolete. It has pores instead of gills. I found a bunch of similar mushrooms when I went to North Carolina this summer, I will post...
Darwin. Yes! you are absolutely correct. Thanks for refreshing my memory which , at 83 yrs. of age fails me now and again. I think I am correct on the...
My goof. Yes, as Darwin,too, pointed out You are dealing with Boletus edulis. You may or may not have edulis itself but it is quite possible. I only find...
Thats Awesome that your 83 that means lots and lots of wisdom. Yes you are correct. Portabello are Mature A. brunesens. ________________________________ ...
I collect Slippery Jacks and other edible suillus species in Alum Creek State Park north of Columbus. I dehydrate them and us them in Italian dishes. Quite...
A portabello mushroom is a mature crimini, and a crimini is nothing more than Agaricus bisporus. Here is the scoop from WikiPedia: Agaricus bisporus is known...
I posted my pics under seth's found mushrooms, they are the newest posts. You can see where the bottom of the mushroom turned colors when I touched it. I think...
Seth. Your gilled mushroom looks to be macrolepiota rachodes. One pic , the one with the spindle shaped stems favors Lepiota americana ... if so it would be on...