It’s morel mushroom season here in mid-Michigan. And what fun it is hunting for these elusive morsels!
I feel rather thankful for all those hours I spent as a youth searching for lost arrows behind the makeshift archery range in our yard and everywhere else around the roaming landscape. I got kinda good at finding arrows.
Now I find other stuff.
Including morels.
I just love their “now you don’t see it, now you do” dynamic.
And what better meal to cook up but a wild foods plate in the springtime. No, this plate I’m going to describe holds its own at the top for any time of year. First, pick yer meat—venison, pheasant, duck, brook trout, turkey, steelhead—any or all (some more in season than others, but an outdoorsman’s freezer will do). Then add wild asparagus, wild leeks, fiddleheads, and wild ramps. Then the mighty morel. Any kind of sauce. And the best wine you can afford. Oh me oh my.
Anyway, I’m off track… I found a buncha morels the other day in and around our yard. And I thought about how hard they are to find. I recently went turkey hunting, nearby as well, with my pal Steve and he wore a camo suit in a tan and black tiger-stripe pattern. I suddenly thought, Man, wouldn’t a morel pattern make a great camo suit! And it would also look swanky to those in the know. If you saw someone in such an outfit you’d say: Mushroom! …All those curvy wrinkles and shady crevices. It’s really hard to find! So I googled it and, sure enough, there’s a Morel Camo company making just such an outfit!
I kinda like how they describe their concept as “non-aggressive camo.”
Check it out: www.morelcamo.com
