That looks really delicious! There is so much to eat from a single puffball! I am excited for you to enjoy all that puffball!
I like puffball pizza crusts. I slice the raw puffball pretty thin for the crusts. Once I've cooked them, they freeze and re-heat really well. Better than freezing raw puffball slices, at least in my experience. Puffballs smell super strong while they are drying in a dehydrator -- almost too strong. But then they are delicious, like freeze-dried ice cream, only mushroom flavored. Enjoy your puffball!
Cooking a crust:
With regular Italian-style pizza toppings (tomato sauce, basil, peppers, cheese)
With ham, artichoke heart tapenade, and romano cheese -- super delicious!
You are getting me all excited about the autumn mushroom season, for sure! Here's to lots of puffballs for everybody -- and all white inside, too. :D
I've also read that you can dry it and crumble it into a fine flour for bread.
Do you have any lobster mushrooms in your area? I've read they are plentiful in oregon in the mountains.
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There are lobsters out there, for sure! Here's some I got at the Oregon coast in August. I have found them even into November. They are one of my absolute favorite mushrooms to find. They can be so different in shape, but they are easy to identify. And they can be big, nearly a pound. That's not as big as your Giant Puffball, but still nice.
Here are some posts I"ve made about Lobster mushrooms:
Finding them: Walk With Me [6 - Part 2] - Big Logs, Mushroom Babies and Lobsters! - Foraging in Oregon's Coastal Forest
Identifying them: How To Eat Wild Forest Lobsters -- Lobster Mushrooms, That Is!
Cooking with them for the Steemit Iron Chef Contest: Steemit Iron Chef 2017 #04 : Grilled Squash Blossoms Stuffed with Wild Lobster Mushrooms
I should get to posting more about Lobster mushrooms. I've got a variety of videos in the works, too. You should have some Lobsters in your area, too. They really are all over the place, where there are stable forests. I've been seeing reports of them from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and upstate New York, so their season is moving south. Happy mushroom hunting!
Wow what a treasure trove. Thanks for the info, i might have to take a mushroom hunting vacation there during the right season.
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I still have ~4 kilos left in the freezer from last year, and it's almost time to find more LOL.
Just finished drying the rest of that mushroom, stank up the house but at least it didn't go to waste.
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