Any other "pickers" among us?

you can also tell by the smell if they are leeks. A very distinct smell.

Very good also in leek & potato soup.

PS - am going looking for morels tomorrow out by my deer stand - found 2 on my front lawn this afternoon.....
 
KodiakII said:
Love them, going to brave the flies and get out next weekend. Remember not to decimate a patch, always leave some for seed.
Holy crap, you guys are still boiling? Missed the run here, had pneumonia and couldn't get out.
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I boil my syrup by hand in a Dutch oven over open flame...... This was the last 80 litres of sap that I had frozen in the chest freezer..... I don't do large volumes.... Just enough for me and S few land owners that give me permission to hunt their property....

You may get lucky picking as the cold may have killed off the last of this year's black flies..... And yes, absolutely, I have acres of the stuff, so I pick in clumps so it grows back in....
 
carverk said:
I highly recommend lobster mushrooms it is a prehistoric mushroom that has bin around before the dinosaurs and its so good in spaghetti or stew but it's a fall harvest so we have to wait along with hunting dam I wish the summer was over
It realy easy to identify lobster mushrooms just make sure there the red or Orange mushrooms and look closely and make sure there is no Alder growing nearby
If the prehistoric lobster mushroom grows in contact with alder it can becom poisonous
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I haven't seen many around Kitimat. That said I prefer to pick and consume what I can identify for sure to eliminate risk for consumption. I dry mine a bit, dice them up and saute them in sesame oil. Then freeze them in small storage containers. Once cooked they keep frozen quite well. I generally process up 20-30lbs (or more if they are producing well) of them a season and eat them over the winter. They go great in many recipes.
 
Wild onions shood be out now with the crazy weather we bin having in bc
I pick them up in hazleton Area
Stinging nettles are already over everything is really early this year
 
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