Bacon that grows in the ground

As I've detailed in past posts, Huan and I have been desperately searching for morels in the hills around
Seattle, with really no success at all.

However, the beauty of the global economy is that if you can't find it in the wild, you should probably just look at your local grocery store. Or, brave the crowds and flying fish and go to Pike Place Market.

So rather than waiting until next weekend (there was a lot of rain today, hopefully foreshadowing good fungus growing weather), we bought some at the Market. It must be high season, because prices have dropped from $50/lb on Monday to $30/lb on Friday to $20/lb today.

Anyhoo, Huan sauteed them with garlic and butter. Wow. Fantastic. They definitely don't taste like mushrooms as much as they taste like meat... specifically, bacon. Now, obviously some of that taste is due to the butter, but there's clearly something meaty going on. All my life I've been waiting for something like this to come along: pork that grows from the ground. Is there anything better? Maybe doughnuts that grow in the ground, but I still think that gets the silver medal.


So I wholeheartedly suggest that you go to your local grocer, pick up a half pound of morels, and get on the pork fungus train. Great stuff.