^ that darling is a giant puffball, medicinal as well as tasty!! Respect your brethren 'shrooms good sirs! As Tophat665 has stated so eloquently, and I paraphrase: the slippery fuckers are delicious!
Who said they have no nutritional value?? Their polysaccarides are a boon to anticancer treatments worlwide! The maitake is one of the best for you as well as being lovely to eat.
By the way, I have some rare truffle gruyere, but I don't know what to do w/ it. Not so tasty for a fungus in my book.