Cauliflower Mushroom...

Third year in a row that we have found a cauliflower mushroom.  This one probably weighed 30 pounds.  We brought back half of it.  We are talking one mushroom!

Didn't have my camera with me when we found it, but you can see the size of it in these pictures.  Yes, the mushroom cooking in the frying pans and in the bowls is just part of what we brought home, and ONLY one mushroom.

Cauliflower Mushroom

It gets saute'd and then goes in the freezer for future use. 

Yum!

So cold!

As I told Gayle, "Yes, it is fricking cold here, too.  18 degrees the last couple of nights.  I want to go get some filbert shells, but the thought of tying down a cover tarp in this weather would make my balls freeze..... if I had any."

A totally different subject.

Here is a picture that I have promised to share! Last fall Sid and I drove to the Valley of the Giants, a patch of old growth fir in the coastal range, and we found a giant cauliflower mushroom.  So big that we could not pack it all out, we probably left a third of it.  We estimated that the total weight was probably close to 40 pounds.  That's right a 40 pound mushroom.  ONE mushroom, so here are the parts of it that we were able to pack out.

Is that unreal?  We gave a lot of it away, saute'ed and froze the rest of it.  Not only large, but really tasty!