'Shroom season

I was out for a run when my mom called me (carrying my cell phone and my inhaler whenever I exercise is a necessary evil since I developed asthma). I asked what was going on out at the Kortuem Estate and she said my brother had come in with a huge batch of fresh morel mushrooms.

I turned around and immediately ran back home to get my car keys. I arrived at their place just in time to see my brother begin his specialty.

 'Shrooms.

Morels are notoriously hard to find in the woods. I've known the most capable of hunters and outdoorsmen to go morel hunting with my brother, and he always out-gathers them. Special eyes, he says. Super-morel vision.

 (Don't judge him for his t-shirt. I gave it to him for Christmas.)

In their natural state, morels are a healthy delicacy. But doctored up with the secret Jeff Kortuem recipe, they're danged near instant artery cloggers. And that's what makes them so good.

 This part isn't a secret, though.  

And this is just for the first batch...ahem.

 The result? Plates full of golden brown, crispy coated morel morsels.

I don't even want to know how much I devoured. But I do know that I'll be out running again tomorrow to wear them off.