A bunch of beautiful morels
Morels and Related Mushrooms Learn more about Pacific Northwest morels here
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Spring Nettles and Oyster Mushroom Pasta
Spring in the Pacific Northwest is accompanied by two commonly foraged foods; stinging nettles and oyster mushrooms. This dish incorporates both of these along with chicken sausage to make a delightful pasta dish. It’s a little early for foraged oysters right now so I used my own cultivated mushrooms. Ingredients: 1 lb (450 g)…
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Morel Mushroom and Asparagus Quiche
Morel Mushroom and Asparagus Quiche Ingredients: 1 lb fresh morel mushrooms, cleaned and sliced 1 lb fresh asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp unsalted butter 1 medium onion, diced 3 garlic cloves, minced 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper 1/4 tsp dried thyme (or 1…
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Creamy Morel Soup
Creamy Morel Mushroom Soup Ingredients: 1 lb fresh morel mushrooms, cleaned and sliced 2 tbsp unsalted butter 1 tbsp olive oil 1 large onion, chopped 3 garlic cloves, minced 4 cups vegetable or chicken broth 1 cup heavy cream Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 1/4 tsp dried thyme (or 1 tsp fresh…
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Morel Mushroom Pasta
Ingredients: Instructions: Enjoy this delicious morel mushroom cream pasta with a glass of your favorite white wine and a simple green salad on the side.
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Finding Morels in Washington: A Guide to Habitat, Timing, Techniques, and Safety
Springtime in the Pacific Northwest brings the exciting opportunity to forage for one of the region’s most prized mushrooms: morels. This guide covers everything you need to know about finding both yellow morels in natural habitats and burn morels in forest fire areas. We’ll share tips on identifying the right habitats, timing your search, using…
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Troll’s Knoll Mushroom Walk
We are installing a mushroom patch at the Troll’s Knoll Forest located behind the Fremont Troll. The patch will include both commonly cultivated species as well as wild mushrooms. Some of these species are edible. Visitors are encouraged to look and explore, but not pick mushroom from this patch. A group of us gathered on…
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Darrington 2022 – Recap
I’d like to send a big thanks out to everyone that attended the tours on Saturday and our show on Sunday. It is so fun meeting other mushroom enthusiasts and I love seeing this community grow. We didn’t have a ton of luck in the forest but we did manage to find a couple nice…
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Is it safe to harvest mushrooms near quarries or mines?
Someone recently asked about harvesting mushrooms near a quarry and wondered if I had any specific guidelines surrounding this. I asked a friend and soil scientist for his feelings on this. Here are some of the things he had to say about it What was quarried? Usually quarries are for stone or sand, so there…
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PNW Boletes
I just finished the first version of a PNW Boletes illustration. These are organized into general groups by Genus which should help to simplify things. Beginners intersted in edible boletes should focus on the Boletus genus first since these are more common, tasty, and easier to identify. Aureoboletus mirabilis known commonly as the Admirable Bolete…
