Shitake, chilli, garlic, ginger, scallions, salt, sugar, carrots.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Porcini paneer
Heat up half a gallon of whole milk.
Add porcini salt.
When the milk boils, remove from heat and add the juice of two lemons.
Sieve with muslin and hang over sink to drip dry.
Add porcini salt.
When the milk boils, remove from heat and add the juice of two lemons.
Sieve with muslin and hang over sink to drip dry.
When cool, weight the paneer down with your kettle bell or something heavy.
Cut into bite-size pieces, and add the paneer to various dishes or just pan fry and serve.
Cut into bite-size pieces, and add the paneer to various dishes or just pan fry and serve.
Passover breakfast
Matzo, smoked mozzarella from Joe's Dairy and homemade porcini salt.
You never thought you would be jealous of
a girl with mozzarella on her matzo, did you?
Friday, March 29, 2013
Another Japanese poem
Niji kiete ato wo tazuneru kinoko kana.
The rainbow faded,
And after that, seeking
Mushrooms.
Yusho
The rainbow faded,
And after that, seeking
Mushrooms.
Yusho
Hidden sex
As cryptogams, fungi, along with algae, mosses and ferns, amongst others,
multiply through "having hidden sex".
In "hidden sex", there are no sperm and ova, or seeds;
only spores.
Mushrooms in your coat-of-arms?
If you are reading this blog, you should consider having mushrooms in your coat-of-arms.
Here is a sixteenth-century German coat-of-arms from the Kreis family.
Here are some other mushroom coat-of-arms.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Get smart with mushrooms
So, what are you waiting for? Apparently, there is no downside and the upside is ....WOW!
Japanese poem
Yoi no ame matsu to chigirite kinoko kana.
The evening rain,
And the mushrooms
It promised.
And the mushrooms
It promised.
Kisei
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Swedish porcini cookies
75 g butter/ 2.65 oz
1 ¼ dl sugar/0.6 cups
½ dl oil (rapeseed, for example)/ 0.2 cups
2 Tbs crushed dried mushrooms (porcini, for example)
2 ¼ dl flour/1 cup
½ tsp baking powder
1. Set the oven at 150 degrees C/350 degrees F.
2.Combine butter and sugar.
3. Add oil and keep mixing.
4. Add the mushrooms.
5. Mix the flour and baking powder and add to the mixture.
6. Let the dough rest in the fridge for about half an hour.
7. Form into round balls and bake in the oven for about 15 min.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Boogie your fungus
Fungal Boogie by
Zoe Wood and Larry Evans features 13 songs about fungi, edible and
otherwise, in a range of musical styles that includes blues, calypso,
polka, and rockabilly. Zoe’s guitar is accompanied by percussion, bass,
cello, and even harpsichord as she sings about Agaricus, Amanita,
Psathyrella, Naematoloma and other remarkable aspects of the Fungal
Jungle. 10% of the proceeds of the sales of this CD go to the Western Montana Mycological Association.Below is the track listing of the CD with MP3 samples.
1. I Just Like Morels Too Much (763 kb)
2. King Alfred’s Cakes (510 kb)
3. Pink Bottom Blues (608 kb)
4. All About The Russula (525 kb)
5. Get Some Mycology (630 kb)
6. Fly Agaric (395 kb)
7. Collybia, Collybia (1,010 kb)
8. Fe Fi Pholiota (925 kb)
9. Bolete Polka (444 kb)
10. Psathyrella (560 kb)
11. Naematoloma (494 kb)
12. Stinkhorn Lowdown (646 kb)
13. Silly Sided Mushrooms (557 kb)
Click here to read the song lyrics.
To receive Fungal Boogie by mail, send $15 check or money order payable to Larry Evans. Address the envelope to:
FUNGAL BOOGIE
PO Box 7306
Missoula, MT 59807
PO Box 7306
Missoula, MT 59807
Strum that guitar and start singing along
Fungal BoogieMan!10% of the proceeds of the sales of this CD go to the Western Montana Mycological Association.
Below is the track listing of the CD with MP3 samples.
1. Fungal Boogieman (744 kb)
2. Chantrelle (819 kb)
3. Caterpillar (539 kb)
4. Lepiota (851 kb)
5. Everything’s Got A Fungus (531 kb)
6. Breakfast of Champignons (560 kb)
7. Conk! (900 kb)
8. Puffballs (891 kb)
9. Hebeloma (766 kb)
10. Fairy Ring Marasmius (500 kb)
11. Shh! A Truffle (791 kb)
12. Sarcodon, the Hawkwing (1.6 Mg)
Click here to read the song lyrics.
To receive Fungal BoogieMan by mail, send $15 check or money order payable to Larry Evans. Address the envelope to:
FUNGAL BOOGIEMAN
PO Box 7306
Missoula, MT 59807
PO Box 7306
Missoula, MT 59807
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Woodlawn Cemetery, NYC
Snowdrops.
Old and woody polypores.
Dried oyster mushrooms (which one?).
Old and woody polypores.
Dried oyster mushrooms (which one?).
And an old coconut!
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