Shrooms at Sonoma Saturday 11/29

My Dad and I hit Lake Sonoma for some shrooms Saturday scored a couple nice baskets of Kings, Queens and Manzanita boletes.  Here a photo of the bounty.
Dave

Nice load...whens dinner?  Do you find that camo helps when hunting fungus?    Say hi to pops for me!

Do you find that camo helps when hunting fungus?   

Ha, I was thinking the same thing - keen sense of sight, those fungi!
When I open Dave's reports I expect to see blood & some kind of animal splayed open!
Dave, it's always interesting to see what's on the menu.

Thanks for sharing!

My what pretty baskets you carry through the woods Dave!!!   

-Allen

Wow, that's a great haul, congrats. We finally found some Saturday, have been eating like royalty all weekend.

One small question; how does one know where picking mushrooms is legal and where it is not?

Nice job. How do you guys cook your shrooms? My brother regularly finds Agaricus Augustus, Porcinis, and lepiotas, but I get a little tired of shrooms sauteed in olive oil.

Any good recipes out there?
Andrew

According to the Wife, dry sauteeing is key as the fresh shrooms hold a lot of moisture. We had half of ours over pasta and made the rest into ravioli. Went well with smoked triploid trout.

I like mushroom soup, pasta, Rissoto, pizza, with pheasant and polenta, over venison medallions, with sherry and sour cream over baked fish, the possibilities are endless. 
Dave

Thanks guys, that all sounds good. Phil, by "dry saute" I take it you mean drying the mushrooms and then cooking them?
Andrew

Wow, that's a great haul, congrats. We finally found some Saturday, have been eating like royalty all weekend.

One small question; how does one know where picking mushrooms is legal and where it is not?

I can tell you it's illegal to pick mushrooms in state parks , was at McKerricker last week .

Would like to pick some but with all the deadly ones also, don't want to chance it . Are there any guides/ books out that are fool proof ? I would imagine it would be best to go/learn from someone who knows what they are doing ?

Thanks guys, that all sounds good. Phil, by "dry saute" I take it you mean drying the mushrooms and then cooking them?
Andrew

No, I mean "sauteing" without any oil to get rid of the moisture and concentrate the flavor
Edit; M'Lady wrote some detailed tips for dry sauteing http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,15603.new.html#new

Dan V; there are some state parks you can pick at, Samuel P Taylor and Salt Point for sure, tho' they're both pretty picked over. Try googling "mycological association" coupled to where you live. There are def assocs in San Francisco, Sonoma and Santa Cruz. They organise forays where new and/or cautious foragers can go with someone who knows what they're doing. Best stick to non-red boletus to be safe, avoid anything with gills.