Lobster mushrooms found today in Cascadia

My first time finding lobster mushrooms! A nice patch of them was on a path I walk several times a week. I picked the biggest ones and left some smaller ones that are still growing. I plan on checking back in a couple days.

I learned today that lobster mushrooms are actually a parasitic fungus!

Anyone have any recipe suggestions?

a bowl of bright orange lobster mushrooms on a scale showing 634g

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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I should call her

picnicolas@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y

She should get that checked out

pseudo@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Does these mushrooms taste like lobster the same way chicken of the woods tastes like chicken?

picnicolas@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It’s both that they’re the color of cooked lobster, and they have a mild seafood flavor like lobster. They even smell pleasantly and mildly of seafood!

Lennnny@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Is it like lions mane?

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)

They're actually super good if you grill them with a steak, just slice em up and cook them in the steak fat and butter when you baste.

Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Grilling and basting? Are you grilling them in a pan of some kind?

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Correct. I usually do it with cast iron.

PhatInferno@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y

Basted and grillpilled