Yellow oysters (Pleurotus citrinopileatus mushrooms) are a relatively new species of oyster mushroom that have been showing up in all kinds of mushroom hunting boards in the Midwest lately, so I thought it would be good to take a close look at them today. I’ll cover their history and identification, invasive status, as well as…
Oysters
Baked Oyster Mushroom Croutons
At the tail end of morel season, we’ll start to see others coming up, especially if we get some rain in the Midwest like we did last week–it poured, and poured. My favorite are the first flushes of young chicken of the woods that come up, sometimes even while I’m out hunting morels, if I’m…
Fried Oyster Mushroom Croutons
If the restaurant were to fail, finding a way to mass produce these would make me rich I tell you. They’re not so much a crouton as they are crispy, deep fried mushrooms, but calling them deep fried mushrooms would insinuate that they’re served hot, which they aren’t. Personally, the word “deep fried mushroom” conjures…
