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While I didn't get a deer yesterday, I did find a huge white mushroom in the woods yesterday so I brought it home. Almost the size of a basketball. Turns out it is a puffball, (yep, the same puffball that when dry and old will explode into a cloud of dust/spores when you give them a good kick) and they are edible. I cut a few steaks out of it and fried them up this morning and they are very good - sort of like portabello steaks. Now if I can get that buck to go with my 'shroom I should have the perfect meal!

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I love mushrooms but you have to be careful which ones you eat. How did you determine it was edible?

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I think he determined it was edible because he was able to live to post this;)

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I live in Indiana and my family's found a couple of puffballs as well. You're right they are edible and they're pretty decent.

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I like finding sheeps head mushrooms. My parents gave me some the other day. I found one last year too late, I need to go check that place out again this year before it goes bad again.

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On spring walleye trips we often check the shorelines for morrells. Those little guys are incredible!

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I dont eat fungus

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You're missing out man.

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I live in Indiana also, and have seen this mushrooms...but had no idea that they were safe for consumption.

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dkeener you have to watch mushrooms, they just killed a guy in the buffalo, new york area. he was dead in a short time after eating a mroom. this was about 2 weeks ago.