Chicken of the Woods mushrooms are one of the easiest to ID and they taste like chicken! There aren't any other brigh orange shelf mushrooms in the eastern US. Their only other potential look-alike that I know of are Jack-o-lanterns, but they're pretty different, with distinctive cap and stalk and gills on the underside of the cap.

Mushrooms have a lot of protein and are a great meat substitute for vegetarians and meat eaters. They're pretty thick, so I like to cook em low and slow, like in my Chicken of the Woods Curry recipe. You can find that on our Patreon page at   / thewanderschool  . Make sure to just harvest the younger mushrooms or the younger, more tender edges of older mushrooms.

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