in the last few years my mom has gotten really into mushroom hunting. there are a lot of woods where we live, and she’s always looked for morels in the spring but now it’s a fall thing too. tonight for dinner we had these purple wood blewits that she found! they’re this mesmerizing lavender color while they sauté. (then…they get a little greyish violet when fully cooked. but they still taste good!)
she also found a few puffballs (they kind of look like bleached skulls…white and smooth…)
the other day we had one of the puffballs with herbs and canadian bacon, and it was DELICIOUS. kind of like a mix between real mozzarella cheese and tofu, but more earthy, kind of like comfort food.
i can’t wait to see what she’s going to do with the next one!
p.s. it is SO HILARIOUS how secretive mushroom hunters are about “their spots.” i know someone who’s actually left the coordinates of the place he mushrooms in his will, so only a select heir will know where it is. no joke.
