Snowdrops.
Old and woody polypores.
Dried oyster mushrooms (which one?).
Old and woody polypores.
Dried oyster mushrooms (which one?).
And an old coconut!
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
New York Times on mushrooms
Mark Bittman suggests combining fresh and dried mushrooms
and throws in a couple of recipes as well.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Passover Mushroom Pâté
a yummy mushroom pâté
for the Seder dinner that marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover.
My host willingly shared her recipe:
Ingredients:Walnuts
Onions
Mushrooms
Lemon juice
Salt and pepper
1. Toast nuts.
2. Heat neutral oil in pan. Add sliced mushrooms. Store bought white button mushrooms and cremini were used. Set aside. (Imagine the flavor if you had wild mushrooms! Look for some dried ones at the back of your cupboard. They can only intensify the mushroomy flavor.)
3. Saute onions until soft.
4. Give the mushroom and onion mixture a couple of blitzes in a blender.
5. Add touch of lemon juice. Add salt and pepper to taste.
6. Scoop pâté with ice cream scoop. Top with carrots.
7. The mushroom pâté was served with delicious homemade matzo rolls. Here is another matzo roll recipe with more eggs.
Kosher. And Halal too.
Some other variations on the theme:
Mushroom and cream cheese pâté
Mushroom pâté with beans
Exotic mushroom pâté with wild mushrooms
From Martha Stewart, with cream cheese and a touch of tabasco
Mushroom pâté is a dish which is delicious enough to stand on its own feet; though no one at the Seder dinner last night used the awful words "Mock Chopped Liver", chopped liver with chicken fat (!) is the relevant cultural reference here. Just the name "Mock Chopped Liver" alone can put anything off food for a while.
Why do some vegetarians/vegans have such low self esteem that the nice stuff they eat is mock something or other? Just check the Chinese vegetarian menus for examples of what I mean. Indian vegetarians, on the other hand, know their lentils and are proud of it.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Bracket fungus. Chinatown, NYC.
Bracket fungi in a Chinese pharmacy in Chinatown, New York City.
The Lingzhi mushroom has been used in Chinese medicine for over 2000 years.
Bitter in taste but supposed to promote longevity and good health.
These were sizable, but not as huge as the gigantic find in China last year.
Morels in Manhattan....
No, we did not find any fresh fat morels in Manhattan today.
Only some expensive dried ones in the store.
But spring was definitely in the air!
Monday, January 23, 2012
New York Mycological Society's New Year Banquet 2012
Soppdagelse's New York correspondent attended the New York Mycological Society (NYMS)'s New Year Banquet in Chinatown last weekend.
2012 is the hundredth anniversary of the composer John Cage's birth. Cage was a co-founder of the NYMS, an avid mushroom hunter and serious mycologist. Cage told stories about mushrooms and mushrooming in his books and in his music.
Gary Lincoff read some of Cage's stories about mushrooms that are part of the performance work and writing. The stories vary in length, but each were told in one minute (Cage speeding up or slowing down the telling according to the story's length). Tudor in another room was playing two of Cage's compositions. They were recorded simultaneously with neither one hearing the other. A number of these stories have to do with mushrooms. In the 1990's NYMS made a compilation and they are planning to do something again this year in honor of Cage's 100th Anniversary.
The program also included a "hymn to mycology" and a fungal gift lottery.
It is curious how mycological societies the world over tend to have the same events in their social programs.
About 80 friends of mushrooms/mushroom hunters took part in the event.
As one might expect, the menu was full of fungi:
- Crabmeat soup and bamboo fungus and stinkhorn mushroom
- Bean curd and assorted mushrooms
- Abalone, Bok Choy and Chinese black mushrooms
- Silk Squash, Bamboo Fungus and Enoki mushrooms
- E-Fu Noodles with black mushrooms
2012 is the hundredth anniversary of the composer John Cage's birth. Cage was a co-founder of the NYMS, an avid mushroom hunter and serious mycologist. Cage told stories about mushrooms and mushrooming in his books and in his music.
Gary Lincoff read some of Cage's stories about mushrooms that are part of the performance work and writing. The stories vary in length, but each were told in one minute (Cage speeding up or slowing down the telling according to the story's length). Tudor in another room was playing two of Cage's compositions. They were recorded simultaneously with neither one hearing the other. A number of these stories have to do with mushrooms. In the 1990's NYMS made a compilation and they are planning to do something again this year in honor of Cage's 100th Anniversary.
The program also included a "hymn to mycology" and a fungal gift lottery.
It is curious how mycological societies the world over tend to have the same events in their social programs.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Soppturen går til ...New York
New York er ikke bare
Empire State Building, Frihetsgudinnen, Times Square og outletshopping. Man kan
nemlig også gå på sopptur i New York!
New York Mycological Society er New Yorkernes svar på Neslekremla. Som med Neslekremla arrangeres det også soppturer i
regi av foreningen. Hver mandag kan soppsankere som er usikre på sine soppfunn
fra weekenden møte opp til soppkontroll.
Soppdagelsens New York-kontakt gikk nettopp på foreningens sopptur til Woodlawn Cemetery i Bronx. Hun
fant bl a en steinsopp (”King Bolete”) og en kjemperøyksopp (”Giant Puffball”).
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