I want fo force my morel values onto everyone else

[Uncle Sparky]

We should all be fun guys.

[Mr. President]

Ah, Apolyton never changes. Mostly that's a bad thing - one glance at the forum index reminds me why I never used to post in the OTF - but Uncle Sparky posts are always worth the bandwidth.

[Zevico]

Ah, Apolyton never changes.

Au contraire:

Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

[ZEE]

I want to force my morel values onto everyone else

do this daily.

[SlowwHand]

NM. I was thinking you were someone else.

[Alexander's Horse]

I'm happy to go with Uncle Sparky's values, or Sloww's for that matter...

What I want to know is, why is Mr Fun so hopelessly, well, funless?

[Kidlicious]

MrFun is the funnest poster on this site.

[Dinner]

I believe everyone should have morels. I like to melt a little butter, brown the morels in the butter, salt & pepper to taste. Simple but delicious.

This reminds me I need to renew my membership with the local mycological society so I can go on their mushroom hunts this fall.

[Dr Strangelove]

Be sure to taste test a small amount first. Some morels may contain a small amount of hydrazine.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Toxic False Morels are one of plausible explanations for evil, evil, Finns

[molly bloom]

I like morels, but also trompettes de la mort- very good with scrambled eggs.

A common woodland mushroom, so-named because it grows in the shape of a long horn or funnel. It is also known as 'black trumpet' and 'trompette de la mort' (literally 'trumpet of death'). It has a fluted edge and dark gills and is very dark brown, almost black in colour. It looks and tastes like a dark version of the chanterelle mushroom.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/horn_of_plenty

I bought mine dried, then used the liquor from the soaking in a mushroom risotto. Also, loves me some grilled Portobello musrooms with goat's cheese and herbs, and some garlic butter...

[Uncle Sparky]

I'm glad that many of you have a taste for morels. Fungi for fun guys.

[Dinner]

Be sure to taste test a small amount first. Some morels may contain a small amount of hydrazine.

Are you sure you are not talking about false morels? Of course even false morels, which are deadly poisonous (I'm thinking of the brain mushroom here), can be eaten if properly cooked. I've never done it though because the whole "What if I didn't cook it long enough?" thing scared me but supposedly it is safe though you do have to make sure not to breath in even the fumes of the cooking false morels as even the fumes can poison you until the poison has all evaporated. The old mushroom trick was to put a quarter in the pan with the mushrooms but that was back in the 1930's when a quarter was actually made out of silver or something so it doesn't work for newer post ww2 quarters.

If you put the silver in the pan and the silver changes colors then the mushrooms are poisonous but if the silver stays bright then they're safe to eat.

[The Mad Monk]

That sounds like folklore. How does the chemistry work?

[molly bloom]

Just finished an excellent little book by Gail Bell about a supposed double poisoning in the family:

http://www.amazon.com/Poison-A-History-Family-Memoir/dp/0312306792

It contains excellent diversions on poisonings deliberate and accidental and which foods may contain what amounts of cyanide... and how to disguise the bitter taste of arsenic.