Comments on: Every spare penny

By: Powerfille (Get it?)

Powerfille (Get it?) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:34:00 +0000

I’m a long-time ‘lurker’ but have recently joined the blog fray. Love your site (and wish you all the best with the wedding)! On morels, wondered if you had read Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal Vegetable Miracle”? She has a receipe for Asparagus and Morel Bread Pudding (http://animalvegetablemiracle.com/BREAD%20PUDDING.pdf). Thought it sounded good but after reading your post, I think I prefer the simplicity of yours that really showcases the morels. I’d love to try them but haven’t been able to find them anywhere (is it because I’m in Canada?).

By: claudia

claudia — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:36:00 +0000

i wanta morels on toasti want them nowi want to live somewhere where i can buy them fresh. ok – now i’m depressed. ok – now i’m over it. but i gotta have me some morrels. your description was amazing.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:53:00 +0000

I am so jealous! Being originally from Oregon and now living in Montana – morel mushrooms are something that I miss and pine away for so much. I can hardly stand it. Seeing that picture was like foodporn. But better. Living in Montana now for 22 years, once, only ONE time, did a restaurant have morel mushrooms on their menu as an appetizer special. Served creamed on small puff pastry rounds. Of course, I ordered them, and then kept moaning and sighing until I embarrassed the husband who thought it sounds like I was having an…you know. Gosh, I miss morels.

By: tara bethune-leamen

tara bethune-leamen — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:51:00 +0000

there are new to me. i will have to try.

By: tammy

tammy — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:31:00 +0000

Just adored this post. If you’re distracted by the wedding, it sure doesn’t show in your writing.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:45:00 +0000

I just had to report back that I went straight to the forager and snapped up a big bag of morels, threatened by the heat wave and their absence next week. So morel week at our house consisted of a pasta with sauteed shallots, morels, sea beans and a bit of cream, with shards of assiago. i had bought a few giant ones and stuffed them with chevre and herbs and roasted them. heaven, i tell you. there are a few wobbly ones left, perfect for toast for lunch tomorrow, just for me. my family tells me they are tired of funghi – i just can’t comprehend this!

By: Seattle Tall Poppy

Seattle Tall Poppy — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:47:00 +0000

What an incredible post. I want to kick myself for not buying morels at the farmer’s market yesterday! I’ll be keeping a sharp lookout for them next week. 🙂

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:40:00 +0000

just wanted to let you know after I read your blog I purposely went out to buy morels….searched hi and low for them!! I enjoyed your simple recipe with toast….yummy…the perfect dinner….I could have this almost everyday!

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:20:00 +0000

No morels in our farmers’ markets — I fear I’m too late, and spring this year was a time when I wasn’t marketing for much other than nuptial paraphernalia, so the morels escaped me this year. But your post makes me think of that MFK Fisher vignette where she talks about eating croûtes aux morilles with her mother in a village near Lausanne, and how they were so delectable, so voluptuous, that they gave in to their own greed and ordered a second helping each, and then a third…

By: Jes

Jes — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:48:00 +0000

just delicious!