fringe benefit of hunting
 

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!

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

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

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

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

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

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.

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

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.

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

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

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

I dont eat fungus

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

You're missing out man.

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

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

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

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.

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

Puffballs are edible until they turn green, then they are not anymore. Probably some of the best are the Black Morels, highly priced to because they are so hard to find.

RE: fringe benefit of hunting
 

PA Bowhunter/RWK-
I picked the puffball to show my wife and kids. I had no idea at the time it was edible until I researched it on line. There is one similar mushroom that is poisonous, but it has gills. Puffballs are solid and all white inside, sort of like a giant marshmellow. Nothing else looks like them. Interestingly, this thing grew from the size of a softball to abasketball in only 3 days (I ignored it the first time I saw it, but after it grew like it did, Ifigured I had to pick it.)
If you like mushrooms, I would highly recommend you try one of these if you find one. Little butter, some onions and voila! Very tasty on bread. Just make sure you cut it open to make sure it does not have gills!