Hey Jode, lookie what I found!

When you folks find porcinis, how many per cluster do you usually come across. Honey mushrooms are everywhere, from nothing four days ago. The problem is that is warm and humid, the flies are in probably I/3 of them already. I found eleven porcinis, but all of them were singles or one to three per site.. Two were huge.

And there are tons of poisonous Amanita sp. and Coprinus sp. out right now. Six days of rain on-and-off really made things pop.

Did I mention I was supposed to be grouse hunting on the opener....?
 
I don?t mess around with boletes to much. We usually get a flush in mid summer but I?m too busy spearfishing to bother. Out west it?s a big deal though.

We had a small flush of honeys last weekend but I decided to get a few blues for the smoker and found some bonitos instead of going back to pick the pins I found on Friday.
 
When I lived in the dunes north of Pentwater, we found hen of the woods in the tree line wind break edges of apple orchards slightly inland, oak stumps for honey mushrooms. Boletus edulus is the only bolete I pick, while most of them are edible they are largely tasteless, dried these have a very nutty flavor and are a good "umami" booster when added to broth soup and stew bases.
 
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Last package of last year's grouse on a bed of honey mushroom button phase , 1 package of Knorr's French Onion Soup mix, 1/2C. of chardonnay, 2Cs of homemade chicken broth over long grain and wild rice....

Picked another half-dozen Porcinis and six pounds of honey button phase. Porcinis on the dehydrator on low. Armallaria sp. washed and bagged in the 'fridge. Phone call this morning to the CO to turn a 12' apple pile and a brand new permanent blind in on CFR land...builder had to have hauled in a generator to build this. Yes, there are two nice bucks living in there.
 
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Shot my first grouse of the season a little after noon, after I stopped picking honey mushrooms because I had a full onion sack of "buttons phase" in two spots I hit that had mushroom clusters scattered on aspens and dead stumps every two to three yards. Two gallons of button cleaned and in the garage 'fridge.

This is a stock photo, but I hit several stands of buttons about a third this dense:
http://comenius.susqu.edu/biol/202/fungi/basidiomycota/Basidiomycota/Armillaria-mellea-pilzfotopage.jpg

I set the bag back down and pushed around a small clearing of mixed oaks and red pine/balsam in the aspen. I had just planted my right foot at full weight when the bird flushed, easy turn on it to step toward him and fire. Kane put him up about ten feet away and I had plenty of time to get on him and swing because the canopy was so thick...yeah that thick still. Some choke cherry leaves turning and coming down and some red oak, but plenty green.
 
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