Chicken of the Woods

Chicken of the Woods

Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) is a beautiful and delicious wild mushroom, usually found on dead oak logs. This one was on an old log in our front yard.  Interestingly, the same log gave us one of these mushrooms about five years ago.

Harvested Chicken of the Woods

Harvested Chicken of the Woods

Over 2 ½ pounds of delicious “meat”!  We could have let it get larger, they can grow to be huge, but I noticed a little bit of insect damage, and the squirrels, who like to get into our shiitake logs, would soon find this one, so we cut it off the log yesterday.

We prepared some last night, sautéed with olive oil, garlic, salt, and pepper.  It was, as we expected, absolutely delicious.

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