RE: Fungi Friday - My Poor Dried Out Mushrooms

Yeah always keep an eye out for chicken of the woods also look up how hen of the woods looks (its very camouflage but also edible). The split gill Schizophyllum commune tastes like a more potent button mushroom (normal store mushrooms). I like to collect a bunch in a mason jar then when I have enough I can either powder them and add the powder to soup or just soak them in water and cook them like a normal mushroom. An interesting fact about this mushroom is it can also infect humans with low immune systems and actually feed off the human body lol. This is very rare of course and you have to be in really bad shape on the edge of death anyway for this to happen but its still kind of creepy especially for an edible mushroom.