ninepointer Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 Some neat finds this week while I was getting ready for deer season. Seem to be more of them in these woods every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_feelgood Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 would love to harvest one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordanl Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 that things huge! that would be fun to find walking in the woods though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishkid Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 Do you know if they're edible? Looks like raw pizza dough. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 They are very edible and tasty as well .....but , they have a rubbery texture compared to shrooms . I went looking this morning for mushrooms at a spot I got lots last year , but it has very dry this year and it showed there today ....no shrooms ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dopefish905 Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 Slice em thin, fry em in a pan with garlic herbs and butter till they brown a bit, Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 Slice em thin, fry em in a pan with garlic herbs and butter till they brown a bit, Amazing! That will work great ! JWL , an old poster here , made a lasagna using the sliced puffball in place of noodles . You can also slice and bag them and freeze them for soups or steaks etc. Try and get them fresh before turning brown . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horrorshowrot Posted September 25, 2012 Report Share Posted September 25, 2012 I had some of these by my house never even knew that they are edible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrod Posted September 25, 2012 Report Share Posted September 25, 2012 Wow, those are some big puff balls. My dad would bring these home and cook them but I never got used to the rubbery texture. I preferred the shaggy mane mushrooms. We used to find them all over Henley Island but I haven't seen them the last few years. They were good sauted in butter with onion, salt and pepper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niagarasteelheader Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 We picked up two yesterday out duck hunting. Dropped one off with a local farmer and took the other home to have with steak. Sliced up the puff ball, put on some olive oil and spices/cheese and right on the grill with the steaks. Turned out amazing!! It was funny cause my brother was just saying he hasn't seen puff balls in years as we rounded a bend and I was like "theres 2 right there!" He just about died!! That was the only highlight of our duck hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 They can reach 12" in diameter . This one was grown in Britain where the climate gets plenty of rain .....took this out of Wiki......freezing them may not be the best thing .....eat'em fresh. The giant puffball, Calvatia gigantea (earlier classified as Lycoperdon giganteum), reaches a foot (30 cm) or more in diameter, and is difficult to mistake for any other fungus. It has been estimated that a large specimen of this fungus when mature will produce around 7 × 10¹² spores. If collected before spores have formed, while the flesh is still white, it may be cooked as slices fried in butter, with a strong earthy, mushroom flavor. It can often be used in recipes that would ordinarily call for eggplant. It does not store well in a freezer - the entire freezer rapidly acquires a strong mushroom smell. A caution was mentioned about an old dry puffball that if kicked open , the spores are not good for the lungs , especially kids . I remember kicking a few of them but didn't inhale ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Andrews Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 I ate mine this year. Break them up like hamburger when you fry them and they shrink dramatically. Add em to stir fry. Leave them alone once they start to turn yellow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel M Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 That would make one heck of a stuffed mushroom! Any idea where I could go to see them? Not too interested in eating, but I've only seen a few little ones as a kid, and I'm trying to learn more about edible plants. There's tons of shrooms in my back woods, but no puffballs so far. Woodend or another nature area, maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 I've seen most puff balls growing in the woods and at the edges where the regular mushrooms grow . We had a ton of rain last night and this morning , that should help them grow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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