I've been looking for these for a while now as I mountain biked and hiked through the woods. I found a few once before in June, just a few young ones, and they were really tasty. I found these ones in August 2011 on a tree on the way back home from Fisherman's Paradise outside Bellefonte. They were growing up the back of an oak.
Amanda and I fried a few. We dipped them in egg whites and then covered them in Panko bread crumbs and fried them in oil. They were really delicious, though perhaps frying isn't the healthiest method.
With a majority of them, I tried a recipe for oyster mushroom chowder. The recipes I found were very basic and I explored other chowder recipes (oyster/clam) for ideas, having heard that these mushrooms could be used in seafood recipes. I settled on a recipe with red peppers and bacon added to the chowder along with liquid smoke and Tabasco sauce. I won't give the details here because I wasn't overly pleased with the results. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't wonderful. The mushrooms are great, but next time I'll go a different direction than chowder.
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