Chicken of the woods indiana6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Chicken of the Woods is considered a delicacy mushroom, and is different from many other mushroom in that it does not have gills. It’s supposed to taste just like chicken, something I have heard many times to describe things that taste bad and look weird. Our most recent mushroom experience has been Chicken of the Woods. They actually look very much like oysters once cooked, taste like rancid fish, and have the texture of eels. Earlier this year it was oyster mushrooms. Unfortunately for me, and happily for everyone else in the family it seems, the husband is developing a special skill for finding and identifying edible mushrooms. Still, why risk death for something that looks like mold and tastes like squish anyway? I’ve never known, or even known someone who knew someone who died from misidentifying a mushroom. I’m not personally interested in eating any sort of mushroom, and truthfully I don’t like anyone else in the family eating them either. And also, like every year before, we haven’t looked particularly hard either. Like last year, and at least for me, all the years before it, we haven’t found any morels. For those of you who didn’t, morels are small, well camouflaged mushrooms that come up generally in hardwood forests approximately after the red buds have bloomed and the mayapples are up (according to Grandpa). As many of you may know, it’s morel season.
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