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Dave H (MI)

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I thought I had wiped these out. They only grow in one spot on the place and I had to do some major clean out there. While having the cookout yesterday I noticed a large white ball on the grass...mushroom. Found two more that had already gone to "seed"...er, spores. Really large and look like the foam inside of a kids ball. These things are soccer ball size or a little larger. While cooking I kept eye-balling the half grown white one on the grass thinking that was just the right size to slice up and cook but I let it be because I have never cooked one before. I have been told you can eat them and there are lots of recipes around. These are hard to mistake for something else because of the size so not too worried I will poison myself. Anyone ever eat one? How do they compare to other mushrooms? We have morels in the Spring too but those are devils to find before the deer.
 
We have them also, never ate them, know people that have. Have ate morels when we can find them.
 
Google puff balls. After you eat one you will throw rocks at morel mushrooms.
 
I don't care much for them. To me they taste much like those
little white raw mushrooms on a salad bar. Little flavor and chalky.
I'd rather have morels or beefsteaks or store bought portabellas.
But they sure won't poison you if you want to try one.
 
We eat them. There is no poison PUFF BALLs. We made different batters. Try anything. There is not much of a taste alone. Once you see them they go bad fast. Any brown inside don't eat. Some place I have a photo of one about 16" across. find them in about the same place each year. Wet spots.
 
Last year i had a bunch of puffball fairy rings in my pasture and hay fields, the rings were easy 30 to 50' across.
quite a few of the puffballs were 12" or better.
This year I could tell were the rings had been cause the grass was twice as tall as elsewhere in the field.. no puffballs this year though
 
The puff balls grow like crazy the last 5 years in a small part of the cattle yard I fenced off. Must be living on the old cow manure.

The pic is what is growing in another area, different type.

Got some regular looking mushrooms growing in my lawn, I presume the poisonous type, they are coming back more and more. This part of the lawn hasn't had a tree in over 50 years for sure, no critters, I don't know what they are living on it is not rich ground there. On our 3rd crop in this area, wife keeps mowing them over, with all the rain they keep coming back.

Paul
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The advantage to that recipe is you can eat them year around. Just substitute cardboard for the mushrooms when they are not available. You'll never notice the difference. :)
 
OK...I'm going to have to find a recipe that sounds good and give it a try next year. I am sure they will be gone over before I get back there this weekend. I want to look in the woods also. I took a spent one in there last summer and kicked it around in a likely spot. Lots of green dust came out so I am hoping I started a new colony. We have lots of the little ones also but there are so many mimics that I am afraid to eat those.
 
We like them thought they do have a soft texture and not much flavor of their own. Any kind of mushroom I can eat is better than none. They can be fried, sliced and put on pizza, cut into cubes and put in soup or stew, pretty much any way you cook them they will be fine.
Zach
 
Puff balls are absolutely great, I have found and cooked many of them. The good thing about puff balls, they are absolutely no imposters for them, so as long as they are white inside, they are edible.
 
With the wet weather we had, I found a few of these called 'Western Giant Puffball'.
About 9" across.
Boy, were they ever tasty
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