Mushrooms - suggestions for bloke.

Churchmouse

I just hope you're ready for the adulation that will now follow you mrbadexample!! Creating your own recipe, picking your own free ingredients, we'll be bowing at the feet of a genuis!!:rotfl: :T You have inspired me, but my mushrooms will be swelling the coffers of Mr Sainsbury tomorrow!! If I wasn't an old lady married to a pretty OK husband I'd be nabbing you in an instant!!:D Keep on keeping us all entertained!! CMxx

ashby

Another one easy to identify and surprisingly tasty, the shaggy inkcap. should be picked/eaten before they are either shaggy or inky, but there will always be some in the group that are to help you identify. these can often be found on grass verges.

mookybargirl

I slice, dry them off and freeze any mushrooms I've not got time to use before they get near the end of their best.

I then chuck them in casseroles, bolognaise (sp?), whatever really - just chuck them in from frozen, they turn out fine.

purpleimp

Sorry couldn't figure out the linking thing but lifted this from one of my previous posts, it may come in handy for future mushy soups (well only if you're making chicken the night before!)
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Slightly different option in the same vein for you,

when I do southern fried chicken bits, I boil em up in some milk first and remove and leave the milk to cool and putthe chicken on the side, let the chicken bits cool and coat them in flour, dip them in egg and then coat in a mixture of fine oatmeal chille powder paprika, onion powder (and any another seasonings you like ) and then fry up, absoutely gorgeous.

Then with the left over milk, add some onion, garlic and half a punnet of mushrooms finely chopped, boil up for a while and attack with a stick blender, add loads of salt and pepper and ou have the nicest mushroom soup ever! HTH!

Imp

idiot_3

mrbadexample wrote:

This morning, whilst at a motorway service station stretching my legs, I saw a mushroom. And then another one. And then another. :j "Magic!" I thought. :rolleyes: [/SIZE]

Quite possibly. Its the right time of year. :beer:

jam4tea

Do hope you have thrown those mushrooms away by now.
I like mushrooms - prepacked and bright white from my supermarket. However I live in deepest France and the national hobby apart from hunting is mushroom hunting! Loads of cars every morning parked on roadsides whilst the hunters look for cepes (fetching 17 Euro a kilo at the moment) They are disgusting - we have plenty of mushrooms in our woods but I haven't told anyone. I suggest strongly that you ignore mushrooms before they become an all consuming issue and you lose all your friends talking about them.
There are some things that are actually worth paying for, and mushrooms are one of them:

Punky

MBE - inspired!!!!!!!! :T

LizD_2

Check out local National Trust properties, English Nature, Forestry Commission as all do mushroom walks around this time of year. You go out with an expert, who'll teach you the diferent types growing in your area. Just google for the websites.

kittiwoz

ashby wrote:

Another one easy to identify and surprisingly tasty, the shaggy inkcap. should be picked/eaten before they are either shaggy or inky, but there will always be some in the group that are to help you identify. these can often be found on grass verges.

You shouldn't have these with alcohol though. Apparently the combo causes a lot of people stomach upsets. Nothing dangerous but could really take the pleasure out of a good meal.

mrbadexample

jam4tea wrote:

Do hope you have thrown those mushrooms away by now.
I like mushrooms - prepacked and bright white from my supermarket. However I live in deepest France and the national hobby apart from hunting is mushroom hunting! Loads of cars every morning parked on roadsides whilst the hunters look for cepes (fetching 17 Euro a kilo at the moment) They are disgusting - we have plenty of mushrooms in our woods but I haven't told anyone. I suggest strongly that you ignore mushrooms before they become an all consuming issue and you lose all your friends talking about them.
There are some things that are actually worth paying for, and mushrooms are one of them:

The whole lot went in the soup. Nothing wasted.

Rest assured, I'm not going to develop a fungal fetish. :rolleyes:

Some things are worth paying for, I agree. However, some things just taste that bit nicer if you get them for nowt. Don't forget, I didn't go looking for these, I just found 'em.