April 19, 2025
Day 1,296 of the Adventure
No! The nice mushroom in the pic is not our biggest disappointment. What you're looking at is a nice, dinner-plate sized "Chicken of the Woods" mushroom. Delicate and tasty, but not quite on par with the coveted morel mushroom. I would say the biggest disappointment so far along the journey of the Campfire Trail is that we've been here through three springtime morel mushroom hunts and have not found a single one. That's disappointing! Chicken of the Woods is not just a "consolation prize" though. It has its own merits, that's for certain. One benefit is the size. When you find one, it's generally enough to use in several meals. Another is that it's easy to spot in the woods. Shelley sees them from sometimes 100 feet away as they stand out bright white and orange in the thickness of the forest floor. What do they taste like, you may ask? Many claim that they taste just like Chicken. Maybe. They do take on the flavor of whatever you are cooking them with. They have the texture of white, breast meat chicken. Shelley got all excited about learning to forage for other species of mushroom once we had determined that morels did not appear to call our woods home. She's learned to identify three types of edible mushrooms now aside from morels, and I'm good with that. Foraging wild food is becoming a fascinating hobby for us. I had no idea there was such an abundant variety of woodsy treats all around us here in the backwoods. I think I'll carry this theme into tomorrow and talk a little about another interesting fungi we've discovered recently!
Adventure Quote: “Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.” ― Brian C. O'Connor,
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