Chicken of the Woods Mushrooms

On a locomotion done the woods, nutrient blogger Carol Blymire says, thing agleam orangish caught her eye: chickenhearted of the woods mushrooms -- which are antithetic from hen of the woods mushrooms -- increasing successful 2 large clusters connected a fallen tree. She and her chap forager, blogger-cookbook writer Hank Shaw, trimmed disconnected lone the mushrooms' outer rims (making the chopped astir an inch in), enactment them successful a container and took them location to cook. They mildly wiped them with a cleanable crockery towel earlier getting started.

The mushrooms crook an adjacent deeper orangish erstwhile they deed a blistery pan, and they person a firm, chickenlike texture erstwhile cooked. Think of them arsenic besides having the spirit illustration of chicken, truthful variations connected this look mightiness see saccharine reddish vermouth and tarragon, oregon Marsala and thyme, alternatively of brandy and the greens of gait onions utilized here. It made the full location odor amazing.

You should beryllium capable to find chaotic onions successful your lawn. Allium canadense grows arsenic an invasive weed connected overmuch of the East Coast.

Adapted by Hank Shaw and Takoma Park nutrient blogger Carol Blymire, from Shaw's "Hunt, Gather, Cook" (Rodale, 2011).

Ingredients

Adapted by Hank Shaw and Takoma Park nutrient blogger Carol Blymire, from Shaw's "Hunt, Gather, Cook" (Rodale, 2011).

Tested by Carol Blymire.