morel salad

Morels are perhaps the most sought after gourmet mushrooms world wide by chefs and individuals.

However as with any mushroom you might have or develop an allergy to them.

Some people develop an  intolerance to morels consumed in conjunction with alcohol  or even days later.

I have known a person who got very ill from white morels when he had never previously gotten ill before or since from consuming black morels.

I think that it was due to the amount of time in cooking the morels.  I must cook a fry pan of morels for about 20 minutes to prevent stomach distress.

 
MORELS prepared in a new way to me, I had never previously incorporated them into a salad...

 

my entry into a mushroom cooking contest

I love rib-eye steak with fresh morel mushrooms







Some of the ingredients...

morel chili

morel, steak & egg breakfast

morel mushroom & chicken soup

morelturduckin

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morelturduckin.... morel, turkey, duck & chicken combo
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Thanksgiving cooking from 2007
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My Thanksgiving morelturduckin cooking ingredients.

I was invited to a lady friend's family Thanksgiving Dinner where there might be more than two children or adults desirous of having the drumsticks off of the turkey that one of the girls was preparing...

...also that perhaps little children might prefer a chicken drum instead of turkey,
therefore I decided to cook extra drumsticks of both types to hopefully satisfy all of the little people as well as a few adults who may desire to have their own drumstick.

I have seen turduckins in the news often over the past few years where a duck and chicken are d-boned and one folded inside the other and finally stuffed inside a turkey, but I had never tried one.



Being as I much prefer dark meat I experimented this year with a duck and some chicken in with my turkey legs.



I like morels cooked most anytime.

I placed more than one pound of dried alpine grey fire morels that I collected during the summer in a container and poured whole milk over them, then placed them into the refrigerator.




I let the morels soak over night, about 20 hours, stirring occasionally.












I use the large Turkey size baking bag in a foil pan ...




... first I placed the duckling sprinkled and rubbed with spices then lightly stuffed it with morels, asparagus, three fresh garlic wedges, green onion and celery ...





... I placed as many turkey and chicken legs around the duckling as possible along with as much morels & vegetables as would fit ...


The reason I place the celery, green onion and parsley on top is to protect the meat from drying out.





... finally the mini marshmallows, half of the white grape juice and half of the heavy whipping cream.





When done cooking I opened the bag and separated the chicken legs on to one platter with morels, vegetables & the almonds ...





I shredded some of the turkey leg meat and placed it with morels, beans, almonds and red radishes that the color leached out of on a separate plate...