**** Do not pick chicken mushrooms off coniferous trees as the chemical compound is different and can be harmful*** also do not eat off of locusts trees. The ones with the big thorns. can make you sick
I have eaten plenty of chickens off our locust trees. I have read this warning before but I, nor any friends and family, have ever gotten sick from them. my favorite way to eat them is fried in onion ring batter. set there with your hand on your belly afterwards good! lol I just made a pot of chicken of the woods soup today(from black locust) as I watched it rain and gloom outside.
puffballs I do like raq. does. beat egg with a bit of water and some seasonings and pan fry in tad bit butter. I have brushed them with melted butter, seasoned and grilled them too.
mushroom muffins can be made with lots of different shrooms.
1 sleeve unsalted crackers, crumbled. mix them into a can of cream mushroom soup. chop shrooms and mix them in also. plop them in greased cupcake pans and bake(sry don't remember time n temp in my head). they don't last long at parties. portabellas work great in this if you wana try it. you can also fry this mixture like salmon patties.
the more I learn about wild mushrooms the more I like them. check out the "learn you land" dude on youtube.
he has great informative wild plant videos. the medicinal qualities of a lot of them is amazing. teas and tinctures are more ways to use them fungi.