BS: Favourite mushroom?

Subject: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 03:48 PM

Please state your favourite mushroom (rank more than one in order, best first). I'd like to keep a tally to see which comes out "best".

Please tell us how you cook them, if you care to do so.

I have only ever tasted plain old white shrooms, so I cannot participate in the ranking. I fry them in marg or butter.

BTW... a regular serving size for me is, after guests have had all they want, the rest.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 03:56 PM

Wild forest mushrooms in a casserole or a gulash. Soak the dried mushrooms in water overnight, and add the mushrooms and the juice to the recipe. Delicious with venison.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 04:09 PM

I love my morelles... The black ones...

I went back to my honethole last night where I usally get a half a gallon but some sneaky sumabich had gotten there first... Makes me mad... Might not get any morelles this spring... Sniff...

I slice 'um in half, put them in cold water for only one hour in the refreigerator, then take them out and dry them with a towel and then lightly sautee them in olive oil... Yummy... You can also freeze them...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 04:17 PM

Wild forest 1
morelles, black 1

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Micca
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 04:47 PM

Gnu, plain old white mushrooms can be greatly improved by cooking them in Bacon fat, (cook the bacon first in the pan then the mushrooms in the remaining fat) once i had them cooked in duck fat (the stuff left in the dish after cooking duck!!! Delicious.
Oyster and chestnut mushrooms are very nice too!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 05:11 PM

chestnut is a very good general purpose mushroom, and oyster and shitake go well in a mushroom stroganoff, and potobellos arenice stuffed and baked.r

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: GUEST, heric
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 11:08 PM

Teónanácatl. I cook them in a dessicator.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Neil D
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 11:13 PM

1. crimini ( baby portabello)
2. shitake
3. oyster

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 11:47 PM

Michael Cooney -- because he's a "fun guy".

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Beer
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 12:41 AM

I have tried (experimented) at least 15 to 20 different kinds of wild Mushroom's and always come back to the field one as my favorite. Now Gnu, the field one is the so called the old white ones that you purchase in a store. But the wild ones do not compare to them. They are simply delicious.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 02:55 AM

magic

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Melissa
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 03:09 AM

I've never eaten a mushroom that I like except Morell..which I like a lot.

1. Little grey ones
2. yellowy ones that are small
3. yellowy ones that got bigger..but they are kind of squishy       sometimes.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 04:33 AM

Plain old white mushrooms (as mentioned above) but fried in real butter and served on wholemeal toast..... yummmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Micca
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 04:43 AM

Liz the Squeaks famous Mushroom sandwiches, served on the Campsite with lots of tea at a Festival are probably as close to heaven as is possible food wise!
but as you asked for a ranking system
1 Field mushrooms, picked wild, not supermarket
2 Chestnut
3 Oyster
4 Shop bought, small buttons (check sell by dates)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 06:14 AM

Liberty Caps (Psilocybe semilanceata)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 06:43 AM

Chestnut mushrooms stewed with chopped chestnuts....
Chestnut mushrooms sauteed in butter with lots of fresh garlic
Shitake and fennel in a stew

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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: maeve
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 08:03 AM

Here you are, gnu:

1. Wild Chanterelle
2. Portabello
3. Plain white
4. Wild Horn of Plenty

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Becca72
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 08:31 AM

I wouldn't eat a mushroom if you paid me. Bleck!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 08:33 AM

My sister claimed she had dated a mushroom.... said he wasn't too good looking but a funghi to be with!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 09:45 AM

Chicken of the woods ( in spicey chinese black bean garlic sauce)
Amazonia Psilocybe (creates spontaneous images so similar to Mayan Pictograms that one may ssuspect that the etiology of their written language "language of the gods" is linked to this mushroom.)
Big Laughing Jim (Gymnophilia)

least favs:
Amanitas yellow orange or red.
Angel of death ( so white it virtually glows but best left untouched )
lil brown mushrooms

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: GREEN WELLIES
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 11:54 AM

Our wild field mushrooms, picked at around 6.30am and fried for breakfast about 10 minutes later, having collected the eggs on the way back past the hen house. Not sure if its coincidence but there are only enough mushrooms each morning for our breakfast, just until we've had enough of them, then like magic (pardon the pun) they seem to finish!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 10:07 AM

Here's another vote for the Wild Chanterelle. But they are difficult to track down and capture as they flee through the deep forest shadows. My favorite way of preparing them is to saute them in butter and add sour cream toward the end. Yum!

Anyone know any Chanterelle harvesting songs? I bet Art can come up with one or at least a quadrille tune. ;~)

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 01:00 PM

A restaurant sandwich I had last year was memorable. Eggplant with a slab of portobello on black bread.- exotic flavors and meaty and juicy.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: open mike
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 01:57 PM

since the forest fire here there are amazing morels everywhere...
most recognizeable wild variety...some false morels look like 'em
so i hear.

http://thegreatmorel.com/

an unfortunate thing happened in Calif. a while back...a family of
asian immigrants ate what looked like mushrooms from their home country and they all perished...

wild mushrooms are scary due to the poison ones.

http://americanmushrooms.com/deathcap.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 07:34 PM

Oysters are my favorite without a doubt. They're the only wild 'shrooms that grow around here that I'm 100% confident of my ability to identify. Too many other edibles have poisonous look-alikes.

I was fond of psilocybe cubensis in my younger days, but that's a different story.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:45 PM

I love all edible mushrooms, so it's hard to pick a fave.

But I'm ecstatic if I can find a giant puffball, slice it up and fry it in butter. Even better if it's growing outside my door and it's FREE. A gourmet delight which costs nothing (except the butter).

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 02 May 09 - 08:41 AM

Hoping to see some more mushroom recipes.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: gnu
Date: 03 May 09 - 05:35 AM

Well... I now know what to do. Buy some of each of the ones they sell at the supermarket and try em.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Beer
Date: 03 May 09 - 09:15 AM

A little off what Gnu has asked but still on the topic of Mushrooms I wrote the following on a previous thread. Just thought I would share it again.
Adrien


In 1988 I purchased a book titled "The New Savory Wild Mushroom". When I go out to look for mushrooms I always take it with me. When I find one that looks pretty interesting I cook it up and call my wife for a taste. Then I sit and watch her for a while. After about an hour, I figure it is safe so I try them and rate their smell, texture, taste and so on.
Mushroom Poisons by Varro E. Tyler. To quote: "Only 1 to 2 percent of the approxmately five thousand species of mushrooms growing in North America are significantly toxic". He goes on to say that when experimenting you should eat a very small amount. For what could be fine for one person can have a very different effect on another.
Just thought I'd share this with you.
P.S. My wife is fine.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 03 May 09 - 09:51 AM

ergo: what could be fine for one['s] wife could have a very different effect on another ...

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Bert
Date: 03 May 09 - 01:28 PM

Wild Horse Mushrooms of course. Kinda like the common mushroom but with a lot more flavor and much bigger than a Portabello.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Peace
Date: 03 May 09 - 05:23 PM

Psilocybin mushrooms make a fine omel/lom/dfhk;luhb;uua

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: bobad
Date: 03 May 09 - 07:01 PM

Slippery Jack or Suillus luteus is a variety of Boletus mushroom that grows in symbiotic relationship with pine and spruce trees. It's name derives from a thin film of slime that coats the cap. As a young kid I would accompany my Polish grandfather and father on expeditions to seek out and pick these wild mushrooms. My mother and grandmother would then prepare them by pickling them in a marinade of vinegar and spices with slices of carrot and onion. The slime would give the pickling liquid a mucus like consistency and eating the mushroom was not unlike eating a raw oyster. This has become, for me, one of those gustatory experiences that invoke nostalgic memories from my youth, especially at the Christmas season which was one occasion where they were always served.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: maeve
Date: 29 May 09 - 01:44 PM

I just bought a book at a library book sale: "The Complete Book of Mushrooms" by Augusto Rinaldi and Vassili Tyndalo. It includes identification and photos of mushrooms from several countries in Part I, and in Part II the best edible mushrooms along with recipes for preserving and cooking with edible mushrooms.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: maeve
Date: 29 May 09 - 01:55 PM

Here's a bibliography of books to assist in identification of and preparation of edible 'shrooms.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: MudGuard
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 06:03 PM

1. chanterelle
(fry an onion in butter, add the chanterelles and 2 spoons of water, stir and fry till the water has first vanished and then about the same amount of fluid reappeared, add a bit of salt and pepper - a piece of buttered bread is all you need as )

2. Boletus
(cut in slices about 4mm thick, fry in butter till brown and a little bit cripsy, add a tiny bit of salt - once again, just bread with butter to go along)

3. bay boletus
(fry with some onion, add parsley, salt, pepper and a tiny bit of         oregano, and cream, put on rice)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 06:17 PM

I used shitakes in lasagna, and they're terrific - but I want to have some of that mushroom stroganoff mentioned above. What time's dinner?

My wife grew up Polish in Rhode Island, and everyone in the Polish community harvested wild mushrooms - they do that in Poland, too. My wife and mother-in-law don't know the California mushrooms, so they don't harvest them here. We had a big jar of dried wild Rhode Island mushrooms, and they were wonderful - but they're all gone now, and we're back to store-bought 'shrooms.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: MudGuard
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 06:27 PM

4. parasol mushroom
(remove stem, powder with flower, then lay it shortly in mashed up egg, then in fine bread crumbs, then fry in the pan just like a schnitzel)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 06:38 PM

Wild field mushrooms are superb, much better than anything you can buy in shops, but my two favourites are parasols, caught just before the cap is fully expanded, and horse mushrooms, mentioned above, picked when the cap is still convex and not in the slightest bit dry on top, and smelling deliciously of aniseed when scratched. A big horse mushroom can be more thaan enough for one, even a greedy bugger like me. These two are best fried in butter with whatever seasoning you fancy, but plain old salt and black pepper are good. Perhaps garlic and parsley, depending on whom you're sleeping with that night. I'm also partial to shaggy ink caps, but it is essential to catch these very young and to run to the pan. You can poach them in milk or fry them quickly. Giant puffballs (not those smaller, wrinkly species) must be used well before the middle turns into more spores than the whole of the human population of the planet, in other words whilst it's still pure white and solid all the way through. You need a beaten egg and some well-seasoned home-made bread-crumbs. Heat butter in a pan. Cut puffball into round slices as thick as your pinkie. Dip each slice in egg, then crumbs, and fry in butter on both sides until all is golden. Serve with kippers. You'll live forever.

If you're picking wild fungi from the ground, cut them just above ground level and keep them the right way up in a basket or something until you get home. If you stack them cap-down, especially if you've simply pulled them up instead of cutting, you'll very likely get soil in the gills and they will be inedible.

Please note that mushrooms fried in any fat other than butter are best served to your enemies, or simply thrown in the bin.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 18 Dec 09 - 05:16 AM

Some useful links :-
Roger Phillips - photographer. His photographic books are excellent. One for mushrooms and another named Wild Food covers edible plants. Web site contains recipes.
Antonio- Carluccio - Chef. Author of A Passion for Mushrooms. Another book worth having in your living room.
Tom Volk's Fungi. An interesting site about fungi.

As for my faves, field mushrooms, Parasol - batter with thyme in it and deep fried, Slippery Jack - in stews, Velvet Shank - nice with pasta, Cep, Orange Birch Boletus - easily found and prolific - stews/soups, Blewitts - MUST be cooked - as a sauce stewed with chicken.
I currently have field blewitts growing in my back garden. Unfortunately too close to where the dog has been.

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite mushroom?
From: mandotim
Date: 18 Dec 09 - 08:36 AM

The snow and frost has come now, and that usually means the end of the mushroom season round here. I've had some beauties this year, though, especially the huge field mushrooms from the farmland by the house. Stuffed with a bacon, black pudding and roasted cherry tomato filling with lots of black pepper and some bruised basil leaves.....mmmmmm