Northeast Gardening: Mushrooms, plenty this year!, 1 by McCool

McCool wrote:
Lots of variety! I do like to find mushrooms in the woods and around the yard, but will only try eating the ones that are near impossible to confuse with anything else. I do have a large book all about them, but found from reading it that there are some that can't be confirmed as edible without examining the spores under a high power microscope!

If you ever find one that looks like the picture I'm posting, pick it. I had never seen these in the woods, but this spring several popped up right in my veggie garden spot. This is a morel. If you google "false morel" you'll see that the closest "look-alike" really doesn't look much like it at all. These are delicious.