Three course mushroom meal

First course: porcini risotto, pickled Borgotaro porcini and pickled shitake.

Second course: Duck breast with asparagus, Jerusalem artichokes and roasted Portobello mushrooms topped with garlic and pancetta.

Third course: Thumbprint shortbread cookies topped with winter chanterelle marmalade.

Chief cook: Pål Karlsen

Marinated shitake, Japanese style

Shitake, chilli, garlic, ginger, scallions, salt, sugar, carrots.

Fresh shitake

At 309 kr/kg at the new gourmet market, Maschmann's,
West Oslo's answer to the Food Hall in East Oslo.

Tom yam gong

Spicy Thai soup with prawns....and mushrooms.

Normally, oyster mushrooms are used but I could not find any fresh ones 

so I am using fresh shitake from the Asian market.

Ingredients:

Coconut milk (1 can)

Fish/prawn stock (4 dl. Make homemade stock with fish heads/prawn shells etc)

Galangal (40 g)

Lemon grass (1)

Kaffir lime leaves (4)

Chillies (to taste)

Fresh mushrooms

Coriander leaves

Fish sauce

Lime juice

Soy sauce

Fresh prawns

Mushroom pâté with sherry and miso

Inspired by last night's Passover mushroom pâté, we decided to make some ourselves today, with a few twists: Adding sherry and miso is not a bad idea. Neither is using wild mushrooms.

Chinese shitake mushrooms, 4.50/lb from Chinatown, 

are plumper and fleshier than their Japanese cousins.

Ingredients:

• Mushrooms - fresh Chinese shitake, dried (and rehydrated) winter chanterelles and the stems of various fresh mushrooms that we had been saving.
• Shallots and onions
• Almonds
• Sherry
• White miso
• Soaking liquid from rehydrating mushrooms

1. Toast almonds

2. Heat oil in frying pan. Saute mushrooms.

3. Add miso. Add liquid. Fry over gentle heat until liquid evaporates. Add sherry. Remove.

4. Heat oil and saute shallots and onions until translucent and soft.

5. In a food processor, pulse the mushrooms and the other ingredients together. 
6. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Sprinkle coriander leaves on top and serve with homemade crackers

...or homemade matzo rolls.