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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Mushrooms are another of nature's misrepresented wonders.
    Lots of people shit on them but they are amazing.  Texturally they can be challenging, which I get.  So many different varieties....

    You're from the land of mouthwatering morels, too. I always used to brave the mud and make it up there for the prime week or so to harvest some morels. And then I'd put them in every dish for the week.
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    HesCalledDyer said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Mushrooms are another of nature's misrepresented wonders.
    Lots of people shit on them but they are amazing.  Texturally they can be challenging, which I get.  So many different varieties....

    I think they used crimini along with the beets in that dish.  They were good.  Nice, thick chunks and beefy flavor.  My entire exposure to mushrooms has never been more than those slimy shits on pizza and in Chinese food.  Those things are fuckin disgusting, but I could certainly get into portabellos.  I'd be willing to give other types a try, I'm just never around them and wouldn't even know where to begin trying to prepare them for myself.
    Portabellos? Cast iron skillet, butter or olive oil, garlic, mushrooms, sautee for a bit, then add soy, tamari or Bragg liquid aminos. Everything else on the plate is not worthy to be in their company.
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  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    dankind said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Mushrooms are another of nature's misrepresented wonders.
    Lots of people shit on them but they are amazing.  Texturally they can be challenging, which I get.  So many different varieties....

    You're from the land of mouthwatering morels, too. I always used to brave the mud and make it up there for the prime week or so to harvest some morels. And then I'd put them in every dish for the week.
    It’s getting closer to morel time here in my neck of the woods. Another week or two.  Morels are good, but freshly, foraged chanterelles are the best.
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    jerparker20 said:
    dankind said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Mushrooms are another of nature's misrepresented wonders.
    Lots of people shit on them but they are amazing.  Texturally they can be challenging, which I get.  So many different varieties....

    You're from the land of mouthwatering morels, too. I always used to brave the mud and make it up there for the prime week or so to harvest some morels. And then I'd put them in every dish for the week.
    It’s getting closer to morel time here in my neck of the woods. Another week or two.  Morels are good, but freshly, foraged chanterelles are the best.
    Chanterelles are the goddamn best! The foraging window seems even smaller on those. I've gotten lucky exactly twice in countless trips.
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  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    edited May 2019
    dankind said:
    jerparker20 said:
    dankind said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Mushrooms are another of nature's misrepresented wonders.
    Lots of people shit on them but they are amazing.  Texturally they can be challenging, which I get.  So many different varieties....

    You're from the land of mouthwatering morels, too. I always used to brave the mud and make it up there for the prime week or so to harvest some morels. And then I'd put them in every dish for the week.
    It’s getting closer to morel time here in my neck of the woods. Another week or two.  Morels are good, but freshly, foraged chanterelles are the best.
    Chanterelles are the goddamn best! The foraging window seems even smaller on those. I've gotten lucky exactly twice in countless trips.
    I have a few chanterelle spots that if all conditions are right, I can forage garbage sacks of them.  I’ve been able to find chants from mid-June until the first part of October here in MN.  I also have a few areas that produce crazy amounts of Maitakes and Lobster Mushrooms. Not a big fan of Lobsters, but love the Maitakes.   I find them to be super versatile for cooking. They taste great fresh, rehydrate nicely, and can be ground into a powder to be added to all kinds of stuff.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,954
    All of those types are great.  Maitakes/Hen-of-the-woods, so good!

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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,500
    dankind said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Mushrooms are another of nature's misrepresented wonders.
    Lots of people shit on them but they are amazing.  Texturally they can be challenging, which I get.  So many different varieties....

    I think they used crimini along with the beets in that dish.  They were good.  Nice, thick chunks and beefy flavor.  My entire exposure to mushrooms has never been more than those slimy shits on pizza and in Chinese food.  Those things are fuckin disgusting, but I could certainly get into portabellos.  I'd be willing to give other types a try, I'm just never around them and wouldn't even know where to begin trying to prepare them for myself.
    Portabellos? Cast iron skillet, butter or olive oil, garlic, mushrooms, sautee for a bit, then add soy, tamari or Bragg liquid aminos. Everything else on the plate is not worthy to be in their company.
    Yeah those are ok, I just wouldn't have a clue how or why or what-with to cook things like chantarelles, shiitake, morels, etc.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,954
    edited May 2019
    From what I have seen they all enjoy butter and heat.  Can chop any of them up -- my favorite is when it is a blend of all of those thing and you heat some butter (a healthy scoop), chopped garlic, pepper flakes and add the shrooms...then add soy and cook off.  Leave a little soy at the end, as the flavor is brilliant.  Never added some tamari or Bragg, will have to try those.  
    I use a small sauce pan when I do it vs. a skillet -- although nothing is ever (ever) wrong to cook in a skillet and if you are using larger piece or whole shrooms, this makes more sense.

    If you pour this over a salad, it tends to make the salad taste like the best thing you have ever eaten.

    If you pour this over a steak, it makes something amazing even more amazing.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Eh.  Mushrooms are overrated.
    The best ones taste like almost nothing and the vast majority of mushrooms taste like a basement smells.
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,064
    Yeah this thread wasn’t started to talk about fucking mushrooms.

    I’ll eat them when I’m out at a nice dinner if they are in something good, but that is it. Get them out of my face otherwise 
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,954
    Boo!
    ;)
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,064
    Beets though. Those are delicious 
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Some people don't like beets.
    I think they are crazy!

    Morels don't taste like basement, they would definitely be my fungus of choice.

    But beets... Roasted garden beets that came up to golf ball size by late June in a cool wet spring...damn, so sweet you save them for last because it's almost dessert.
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  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    edited May 2019
    Beets. Meh, if I want to eat something that tastes like dirt, I’d just eat dirt. Radishes, rutabagas and turnips too. Yuck. I’m not a fan of any of them.  I love parsnips, Brussel sprouts, and cabbage though, so go figure.

    Back to tasty things like mushrooms... My wife makes a venison marsala with fresh, foraged chanterelles that is out of this world.  


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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    jerparker20 said:
    Beets. Meh, if I want to eat something that tastes like dirt, I’d just eat dirt. Radishes, rutabagas and turnips too. Yuck. I’m not a fan of any of them.  I love parsnips, Brussel sprouts, and cabbage though, so go figure.

    Back to tasty things like mushrooms... My wife makes a venison marsala with fresh, foraged chanterelles that is out of this world.  


    Mushrooms taste way more like dirt than beets lol

    Then again, most people have never had good beets.  
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,203
    Matsutakes sliced thin with a little butter and soy or STFU. Mushroom and onion is my preferred pizza topping for an everyday pie.  And I love beets, especially golden beets slowly roasted. But it is true that even the sweetest beets have a little dirt taste. Absolutely. 
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,954
    Anyone tried Beyond Meat?
    I'm not one for shit that is meant to taste like meat but is vegetarian, in general.  I think it is better to embrace the vegetables for what they are 
    Wife bought some Beyond Burgers and Beyond Sausage
    Cooked up the sausage and..... surprisingly tasty.  It does not have the pork taste of a good sausage but I spiced the fuck out of them, loaded with onions and peppers, and baked.
    Very tasty stuff.  Not sausage, but damned if it didn't taste / feel similar.
    Interested to see what the burgers taste like.



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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Anyone tried Beyond Meat?
    I'm not one for shit that is meant to taste like meat but is vegetarian, in general.  I think it is better to embrace the vegetables for what they are 
    Wife bought some Beyond Burgers and Beyond Sausage
    Cooked up the sausage and..... surprisingly tasty.  It does not have the pork taste of a good sausage but I spiced the fuck out of them, loaded with onions and peppers, and baked.
    Very tasty stuff.  Not sausage, but damned if it didn't taste / feel similar.
    Interested to see what the burgers taste like.



    We bought some burgers a month or so ago but never cooked them. Pretty sure they’ve gone bad by now.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,954
    Yeah if you didn't freeze them they should go in the bin.
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  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    I’m curious about Beyond Meat as well. Been considering picking up some of the burgers. 

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