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Copejunkie said:
Morning all. The mushrooms are going with us up to a friend's place in Minneapolis today. Can't be in the field and all the women in my family have been wanting to go up there to watch a wnba game.
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They look just like the mushrooms that you can find here in NE TN. Most of my old golfing buddies would hit the woods and find them ... IIRC it was only in the spring that you could find them ... and we would batter and fry them. They taste great and land fish is all I have heard them called.
 
batchaps4me said:
They look just like the mushrooms that you can find here in NE TN. Most of my old golfing buddies would hit the woods and find them ... IIRC it was only in the spring that you could find them ... and we would batter and fry them. They taste great and land fish is all I have heard them called.
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I have never heard the term land fish before. Most here just call them mushrooms. But yeah battered and fried is the way to eat them. And they are only out for a short time in the spring. There aren't nearly as many today as there once was. When my dad was growing up there were carpets of them in the timbers. Today you just find small batches of them usually. When the Dutch elm disease hit here it killed the elm trees, and there's something about elms that mushrooms like. Today elm trees never get big. They grow about 10 to 20 years and then die. They used to live a 100 or more. You find the mushrooms right around the dying trees. We found 4.5 pounds in that batch yesterday. Which is more than enough. Some people will gorge themselves on them, not me. I will eat 2 and I'm done for the year.
 
Copejunkie said:
I have never heard the term land fish before. Most here just call them mushrooms. But yeah battered and fried is the way to eat them. And they are only out for a short time in the spring. There aren't nearly as many today as there once was. When my dad was growing up there were carpets of them in the timbers. Today you just find small batches of them usually. When the Dutch elm disease hit here it killed the elm trees, and there's something about elms that mushrooms like. Today elm trees never get big. They grow about 10 to 20 years and then die. They used to live a 100 or more. You find the mushrooms right around the dying trees. We found 4.5 pounds in that batch yesterday. Which is more than enough. Some people will gorge themselves on them, not me. I will eat 2 and I'm done for the year.
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We were golfing when two of my buddies started hunting for them. I had no clue what they were but after they found some I said I would help them look when I put a ball in the woods. "There is no need, they don't grow that deep in the woods ... there's not enough sunlight."
 
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