Week of mushroom foraging

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I loved going away to Cape Cod for a week. But instead of a relaxing vacation it turned into more of a job. In the morning we’d spend hours foraging for mushrooms and then after we got back to the hotel we’d spend hours dealing with the mushrooms we foraged. We had to clean the stipe (foot) of each mushroom, then wash all the mushrooms and boil them in salted water. Then we had to transfer them to plastic bags and freeze them. That took hours as well. When we ran out of room in the freezer we’d dehydrate the mushrooms. We did not boil mushrooms prior to doing that. I love foraging for mushrooms a lot and I can do it for hours, but it is exhausting. And I prefer foraging for mushrooms to cleaning them. That part is not as fun. I only get to forage for mushrooms once a year if I’m lucky. Not sure when I’ll get to do it again.