Mushroom foraging in Cape Cod
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (47722)
Staten Island, New York
September 21, 2025 11:45am CST
Went with my mom to Cape Cod for a week from 9/7 to 9/14. First thing we did in the mornings is go mushroom foraging. It was a bit tiring when the sun was fully out but it was fun. We got a decent amount of mushrooms and after a quick boil we put them in quart-size storage bags and froze them. Now they are in my mom’s freezer. We can fry them and also use them to make mushroom soup. Perhaps we can even marinate them but I’d have to ask my mom about that. Some of the mushrooms were huge, even bigger than my hand.
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@RebeccasFarm (95972)
• Arvada, Colorado
22 Sep
Oh Lena!! Why didn't you tell me you were going to the Cape? boohoo I would have helped you hunt mushrooms.
You lucky ducks you!
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@RebeccasFarm (95972)
• Arvada, Colorado
22 Sep
@lovebuglena I am so glad you got this lovely time with your Mom and in such a lovely place. I went to the Cape when I lived in Mass. I miss the seaside so as you know.
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@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Sep
It was a last minute thing. My mom’s friend’s husband didn’t go so she asked me to come and I said yes.
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@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Sep
@RebeccasFarm it was nice to get away.
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@RasmaSandra (89454)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Sep
I miss the wild mushrooms we picked in Latvia, Now if I have any they are the usual white kind or canned,
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@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Sep
I went mushroom foraging in Latvia when I was a kid. I think it was in Urmala (not sure on spelling).
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@DaddyEvil (160199)
• United States
22 Sep
@lovebuglena Yeah, most mushrooms are too expensive if you have to buy them.
With morels, we soak them in saltwater overnight, then slice them up, dip them in egg and milk mixture, dredge them through flour with seasonings mixed in and fry them in a little oil. They're delicious that way! Even Pretty will eat them that way and she hates mushrooms! (The last time I fried some like that, Pretty stood beside me as I fried them taking them off the plate as soon as I pulled them out of the oil and eating them. I had to tell her to stop because I wouldn't have gotten any the way she was eating them. 
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@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Sep
@DaddyEvil my mom bought them at an Italian store once called Eately. Don’t remember how much they were per pound but they were expensive. I tried them. They were really good fried.
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@celticeagle (180225)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Sep
Yes, indeed they were huge. Around here after a fire in the forests we can pick mushrooms that sprout up almost immediately. Many sell them for big bucks to the local restaurants.
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@celticeagle (180225)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Sep
@lovebuglena ........I am glad they are freezable. I didn't know that.
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@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Sep
I don’t know how they can get so huge but as long as they are not rotten inside I’ll take them.
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@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
23 Sep
I love them. Some people dried them in the machine (whatever it’s called) and the smell was sooooooo good!
Some of the mushrooms were bigger than my hand.
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@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
24 Sep
@porwest you don’t have to ask me twice lol. Offer me mushrooms and I’ll gobble them up. The edible kind, not those that make you see things…
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@porwest (108301)
• United States
24 Sep
@lovebuglena I can see that. I LOVE mushrooms.
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@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Sep
Yeah, some of them were crazy big. Bigger than my hand.
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@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Sep
@Rimps85 I fry them up with some onions and have them as a side to meat or chicken.
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@snowy22315 (196866)
• United States
22 Sep
I'd be nervous about mushroom foraging. I think I would rather get mine from the store or farmers markets.
@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Sep
My mom’s friend is a mushroom expert and my mom knows a lot as well so I didn’t have to worry.
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@LeaPea2417 (38496)
• Toccoa, Georgia
21 Sep
That sounds fun. I read a book about a guy who foraged for mushrooms and truffles and ended up starting a business selling them to restaurants.
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@DaddyEvil (160199)
• United States
21 Sep
When we still owned the farm, we'd forage mushrooms in the fall, too. But we were hunting for morels. I'm glad you/your mom know which ones are safe to eat.
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@lovebuglena (47722)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Sep
I’d love some morels but they don’t grow where we were. My mom found one once where we live but haven’t seen anymore since.
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@JudyEv (363581)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Sep
I've never seen mushroooms that big! I wouldn't know which ones were safe to eat.
