Mushrooms

I’m willing to bet that most Americans were first introduced to mushrooms in the form of a bowl of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup. I was lucky to have grown up on a ranch in Colorado, and my first recollections of eating mushrooms were those that we gathered wild in late summer. I remember most the morels. They have a unique honeycombed and conical shape, and usually are black or dark gray in color but also occasionally white or yellow. Their hollow stem and core make larger morels ideal for stuffing, which is what my grandmother used to do with them.