Cooking with mushrooms can be an expensive habit

Cooking with can be an expensive habit. More and more mushroom varieties are popping up at specialty produce stores and farmers markets. But these edible fungi often come with a hefty per-pound price tag.

Some wild mushrooms such as morels and chanterelles are in fact just that: wild. These sacred fungi cannot be replicated commercially or in a home environment. They grow on their own when and where they choose.