Lovely black morel

Sometimes you find one that is so perfect you can't quite believe it.

Ella's morel mushrooms

Missy and I found over 13 pounds of morel mushrooms in spring 2010. Ella seems to like hunting for them and eating them as much as we do.

Pepper's morel

Fiddleheads for harvest

Luckily I have a good crop of ostrich fern near the spring -- the best type of fern to eat. You can recognize ostrich fern because it sits on a raised hummock and when it's young and ready for harvest, some of the fiddleheads still have a sheath of brown paper on them. Boil the fiddleheads 7 minutes, then finish in butter or olive oil on the stovetop. Serve with carmelized onions as a side dish. They are also excellent as a pizza topping.

Turkey hunt

These boys came through a day before the hunting season, and I showed up two days later. So I harvested fiddleheads, not turkeys.