Thread: just wanted to share tonight's dinner with you guys..

I had already ate my dinner but when meeting a neighbor in the alley he told me that he had found some of these giant puffballs in the park. I said they are good to eat and I brought one to my house and cooked it. He only ate a little piece!
I said that if I am not dead in the morning go get yourself another.



Only a little left when I decided I should take a picture.

That's a gigantic mushroom.

I thought it looked more like the result of a removed medical condition .


Mick

So how was it ? You still alive ???

I have to say that thing is huge.....I myself at first thought it was something from my anatomical lab.
How did it taste by the way, I hear there delicious . I myself am not a big mushroom consumer but that looks to be a different texture so I would probably like it. Can I ask where are from? Just curious where that came from the puffball that is?

Semi-homemade Supper of indulgence : And I had booze in everything it seems !

Pan cooked Boneless Pork rib with port,rosemary and smoked paprika .Italian green beans Sauteed in the leftover juices.
Sides were a little bit of Whiskey Habanero Apricot jelly and some Forelle Pear that was so creamy it was like custard.
dessert was ......cinnamon,raisin rice pudding topped with Bananas Canadian which is bananas Foster with Maple syrup added. Pyrate sipping Rum was in all that. It really is good for sipping too....Now to light the Churchwarden and reeeeelaxx .

Originally Posted by 32t

I had already ate my dinner but when meeting a neighbor in the alley he told me that he had found some of these giant puffballs in the park. I said they are good to eat and I brought one to my house and cooked it. He only ate a little piece!
I said that if I am not dead in the morning go get yourself another.



Only a little left when I decided I should take a picture.

Wow - that looks like a giant alien spore, don't go to sleep with that by your bed....

Originally Posted by pathology101

I have to say that thing is huge.....I myself at first thought it was something from my anatomical lab.
How did it taste by the way, I hear there delicious . I myself am not a big mushroom consumer but that looks to be a different texture so I would probably like it. Can I ask where are from? Just curious where that came from the puffball that is?

Yep that line right there, just had me in fits. I myself have also only consumed regular sized mushrooms, never having seen giant toadstools like that which 32t has just consumed. If I don't hear from him in the next few days I might decide to send someone around to knock on his door...Or I might just let it go and let his neighbours sniff him out at there own inconvenience.


Mick

Thanks to everyone for your concern! No need to call for a welfare check.

I found this in Minnesota but they have a large range. I think they have a very earthy odor and taste at least for a mushroom. I have read to use them like Tofu. Raw they are much lighter but after they are fried I can at least see a comparison. The way I usually eat them is to cut a 1/2 inch thisk piece the size of my frying pan ans fry them in butter. I should do some more experimenting. I find them usually hunting in the fall and like to harvest one to have a little change. They are very hard to confuse with anything else so I feel comfortable eating them. This one was just starting to discolor in the center wich is a sign that it is getting old.

I go on an annual spring fishing trip in northern Wisconsin that we know of a patch of these that we find every spring. As a couple of old men and we have shown our children to have fun jumping on them in our wet waders acting like children and spreading the spores.

Well supper was a combination of 'plain' that was fancied up'.

Brat's browned in oil, then simmered in some 'barley pop' an egg fried in the remnants of the brats with some french toast made with bread, eggs, water, cinnamon and a little vanilla extract then topped with real butter and some Lyle's Golden Syrup. 'The Lyle's is the fancy part'.

Damn was it good!



I really should have waited to take the pic until I'd topped the egg with my homemade seasoning. It would have looked so much 'Fancier' Oh Well