If you hunt wild mushrooms, you probably know some of the flavor comparisons for well known species. Chicken of the woods taste like chicken, chanterelles smell like apricots, slippery jacks taste like viscous slugs (fresh at least), candy caps taste like maple syrup and hericium mushrooms cook a bit like crab (note that I said…
Hericium
Hericium Crabcakes
I finally have a log that’s producing pounds of Hericium coralloides dependably. These can be one of the more tricky wild mushrooms to find from my experience and most of the time if people aren’t primed to look for them, they might just pass them by as just another strange looking tree growth. If I…
Seared Tenderloins with Hericiums and King Crab
It’s been a while since I’ve seen some good fruitings of hericiums in Minnesota-a couple years. It’s not that I don’t have anywhere to go and pick them, it’s just that as is the case with hen of the woods and chickens, sometimes they skip a year or two and you won’t see them at…
Hericium Mushrooms
Hericiums are a strange, striking mushroom, like an alien life-form. Habitat These like to come up in the late fall in the Midwest, when the leaves start to drop from the trees, but they’re choosy as to where they grow, and to me it seems like each mushroom eating the decomposing tree can have their…