Jode look what I found!

Are puff balls good? I assume they are easy to ID. I found about 30 pounds (many dozens) of firm and white throughout puff balls that ranged from tennis ball to the size you have. I did not pick them.
 
Yeah, that are pretty good. When I find a good flush of fresh ones, I'll bring them home, slice them thin (maybe 3/8 thick) and then pan fry in butter or oil. Once you cook them, you can store in a Foodsaver and then use whenever you want. Pretty good the way Chris has them prepared with marinara and mozz.

Nate
 
Those are some big oysters!!! I've never had puffball. Are they the same kind that when dry make a purple cloud when you stomp them?
 
Jode those are purple spores puffballs they get to be about the size of a softball. They are a choice edible. Must puffballs I get are the gem studded puffballs. This one is a giant puffball and I have ever only found 1 other that was in an edible condition.

All puffballs must be cracked in half to make sure they are solid white throughout. A lot of mushrooms start life in a similar form of a puffball. So if you cut it in half and there is a something resembling a stalk and gills throw it away. It is most likely an aminita which which kill you, or mess you up. Destroying angels are no joke, but I have heard they are delicious.

If the inside is any other color than white. Don’t eat it. Yellow to brown means it has matured past the edible stages and will be very unpleasant tasting. If it is black/super dark purple and has a dark brown cracked outer rind this is a pigskin puffball, they are toxic.

Oysters were unfortunately very wormy, I never have luck with them early. Late flushes when they normally come out after frosts and freezes they are always worm free.

I got a nice cicinattus 2 days in a row this week too!
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Thanks for the tutorial. If I ever run across them in abundance again, I'd pick and look them up carefully.
 
Ooo--that picture sends my stomach into whirls...

I used to live on the Olympic Peninsula and loved chasing mushrooms-- shaggy manes, chanterelles and the like. There was an old pasture next to work that sprouted a bunch of giant puffballs. They were excellent fare.

However, one night my wife cooked some in a wine sauce. Some folks cannot eat wild mushrooms in conjunction with alcohol, as I discovered. I have never been as sick as I was that night, ever. After several hours of projectile vomiting, a call to the doctor turned up the cause--the alcohol/mushroom combination and my genetic predisposition. It wasn't life threatening, except for the my feeling that I wanted to die. I've never eaten a wild mushroom since.

Your image of the giant puffball brings it all back...
 
I didn't know that about alcohol and shrooms. I always wondered why an acquaintance had the same experience after eating morels one time. He had eaten them his whole life and never had a problem before. He tried again a year later - same result. He always had alcohol and usually wine with dinner so maybe that's it. That was 20 years ago and I don't think he has eaten one since.
 
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