It was just one of those days…the kind that come around every couple of years [if you are lucky] when everything falls into place: temperature, moisture, location and time.

Cyndie and I took a break from the landscaping project and hit the woods in search of a favorite Spring time delectable.  Morel mushroom season has been gearing up around this area for a couple of weeks now; last week there was a good amount of rain and few nice warm days.  We checked a super duper secret spot of mine last week and found a few lil buggers.  We went back yesterday to find that the two lil buggers had grown up…and they had friends.  It is always fun to find bunches of these tasty fungi, but when you find heaps…we’ll that is just crazy exciting.

We stumbled upon a massive Smurf village.  At one point I am sure I busted out in a tune familiar to many.  These fungi were wonderfully huge and plentiful.  We Gargamel’d practically the whole village* and it was an epic occasion.  Sooooo epic that I had to call for reinforcements.  There were so many and our mesh bags where already full when we happened upon this lovely place.  I dialed up a fellow shroom hunter and he arrived in short order with paper grocery sacks to transport these little lovely’s home.

It is a fairly common practice to have morels and steak, but rarer still is the morel steak.  Have I mentioned that these morels were massive?  Big and hearty they were – it is a very nice thing when you can sit down and eat morels – and cut them with a knife

The two grocery bags we brought home were 7.5lbs ea. and my friend Doug went home with one as well.  It never occurred to me nor have I ever wondered how much a smurf village might weigh.  Approximately 22 lbs total; I guess that is how much a smurf village weighs.

*You don’t want to cut down everyone – leave some to rebuild, always cut the stems and always always always use a mesh bag to gather so you scatter spores!!!!!