John Westfield

I'm a lifelong cooking enthusiast with a special love for strange and underused ingredients. I hope this blog helps open your mind to more of the wonderful edible treasures around us.

Can morels be grown inside?

Morels are a very NOT well understood mushroom but they have been grow successfully indoors since 1982. Morel mushrooms have been cultivated successfully indoors since 1982 by Ron Ower. Immediately after he figured it out he filed and received two patents on his work as well as G. Mills and J. Is it possible to …

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What are morels mushrooms?

It’s kind of a big deal to go out foraging. Morels, or the scientifically named “ Morchella ” mushrooms, “ The part that we eat is the fruiting body of the underground organism called mycelium that has a complex symbiotic relationship with trees ” grow in a symbiotic relationship with the forest after trauma. The …

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Do morels grow in texas?

Here in Texas Morels are easily found around Dallas and farther north but traveling south they haven’t been reported between Waco and the Gulf of Mexico. In the Texas Hill Country look on the ground under juniper/cedar trees. Morels generally require at least six weeks of freezing temperatures to grow but they have adapted to …

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