Dear Love and Children,
When Trey Daug and I were hiking back to the car after our six day adventure we saw lots of people hunting for mushrooms. When we inquired about it they said it was mushroom season (that would explain the 2,562 mushrooms) and that they were specifically searching for Porcini mushrooms. Oh my yum! Porcini's are a gourmet mushroom with a nutty flavor and because they're extremely difficult to grow, fresh ones are very expensive.
We had to wait a full week after our hike to venture out because life is just too darn busy, but one fateful Sunday we came home from church, changed into our mushroom harvesting gear, and drove to the mountains.
Because we had seen so many people collecting the previous week and we saw lots of people that Sunday with overflowing bags of Porcini, we were worried the mountain would be wiped clean. We only had to look for a short time before I found the first mushrooms! We were pumped.
What a fun scavenger hunt, searching for those tasty treats. The kids were in heaven and so were Trey and I. We stopped to have a little snack we had packed and discussed what we should make with our harvest. So many possibilities!
Jonas found the biggest one of the day and he thought he was a rockstar, which pretty much, he was.
Before we went on our little adventure Trey had done some research into mushrooms so we would be sure to get the edible variety. He sent me a link to an article about an author who was out harvesting mushrooms, which he had done hundreds of times before, accidentally took home some poisonous ones that he then cooked and fed to his family. They had to go to the Emergency Room and horrible lifelong consequences resulted.
Needless to say, I was a bit worried about our amateur mushroom hunting so once we got our harvest home we triple checked all of them and threw out any questionable ones. The resulting bounty:
That night Trey made delicious Chicken Marsala with Porcini Mushrooms.
The following night he made Porcini Mushroom Ravioli completely from scratch.
He then topped it with fresh garden tomatoes and basil. The most delicious meal ever!!!!! He made so much that we ate it two nights in a row, froze the rest, and then had the Miller family over for a feast and we still had leftovers.
He gets a little zealous with his cooking sometimes.
One time he made homemade chicken noodle soup from scratch and we ate it every night for an entire week! Haha, I love that man.
We still had quite a bit of mushrooms so I dried five trays full in the dehydrator. The bounty that keeps on giving. We all enjoyed the mushroom process so much that we plan on making it a tradition.
See you next year my loves, Me
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