Those Amanitas were fuckin' nasty; maybe I should have stuck it out a bit longer, but figure the current psychoactive was better anyway.
Even though I lost interest in them while still having at least ten baggies in the fridge, I did learn something from the experience that should be transferable to the psilocybes.
First of all, I think it's best to harvest them on a nice dry day. I don't recall if it was recent rain or early morning dew, but the area was damp to slightly wet and that just brings out all the nasty shit; snails, slugs or whatever else, plus some were a bit slimy which was kind of gross, but I just ignored the less than ideal conditions and pretty much picked the place clean.
I sliced them up and dried them out really slow in the oven. Tried them as was, but they were pretty chewy, like tough jerky. So then I tried putting some in the coffee grinder which created a fairly fine powder, and mixing that with kool-aid, or any other non-carbonated beverage, and even made tea a couple times.
So the coffee grinder method seemed best, but even so I still lost interest after giving them a fair try, but if I ever get some psilocybes that's probably the method I'll use unless for some reason they are easier to deal with.
It seems to me that most of my trouble arose from the first incident in which I then had info for cops to pull up by running my plate. So no more driving around in the big cities late night to early morning. If everything keeps going the way it is with no surprises it'l all be over in a few months.