Puffball mushroom pizza!

[Tripplebeards]

Found a couple on my land last week. One started cracking open so I tossed it.

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It’s been years since I ate these. I cut the one up,spayed Pam on both sides, and salt n peppered them. Baked till brown and then froze. Figured I’d try pizza crusts with them..or pancakes. I pan fried a few pieces with an egg wash and bead crumbs.

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I thawed out a couple the baked circle slices today and made a pizza out of one of them for lunch. Just applied pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni on the pre baked crust and baked for 15 minutes at 350. I then bumped the oven to 425 and baked for another 5 minutes to get the cheese melted. YUM!

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Im Going to try a couple of the baked crusts I made for pizzas as pancakes. Just going to heat, ad some powdered sugar, butter, and syrup.

I gave my neighbor half of the one I cut up. They pan fried it all in eggs and crackers the same night. Needless to say they volunteered to help find more.lol

[Gewehr-Guy]

Well I've never seen a puffball anywhere near that size! Most of them around here get about the size of a golf ball, then turn powdery.
That pizza sure looks good.

[Tripplebeards]

Substituting one for a pancake didn’t trip my trigger….

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But the pizza and fried pieces were awesome.

[Dunross]

It's been years since I've seen one bigger than a tennis ball.

[Tripplebeards]

The giant puffballs are pretty common in my area. I just keep forgetting to look for them till it’s to late.

[Markopolo]

holy Moley batman!!!! we only have the little puffballs here.. that is a huge score!!!

[megasupermagnum]

We used to get them that size in the yard growing up. We usually just waited till later, and kicked them to see the poof. Come to think about it, I haven't seen any here in South Dakota. I'll have to keep my eyes open this weekend when I'm running the bear baits. I'd live to try a mushroom crust pizza.

[MaryB]

Been years since I have seen a puffball mushroom! When I was a kid they grew in the school playground area. We kicked them to see the poof LOL

[jonp]

Ive never seen one bigger than a golfball. Did you run a geiger counter over them?

[BJK]

Those aren't puffballs. Seriously, they are giant puffballs, that's what they're called. All I have here are much smaller versions. I wish I had the Giant puffball species.

Feel like sending me some spores?

[JimB..]

We used to grill them. Slice, brush with oil, sprinkle on some seasonings that I’ve forgotten. They grow in southern MI and northern IN.

[Lloyd Smale]

we get the BIG ones up here and the small ones.

[badguybuster]

Wow that looks amazing. Ive never seen a mushroom that large