Post by michaeljohnson on Aug 31, 2009 0:03:28 GMT -5
Over here in the UK , the best flavoured mushrooms available for sheer taste and size, is the Portabelo mushroom. very similar to normal mushrooms but a bit darker in color on the top skin- a sort of light brown, but a full grown for size mushroom fully open and flat is about as big as a tea plate six or seven inches across- they are so delicious and moorish, almost twice the flavor strength of standard white mushrooms,
Does anyone grow them in the U.S.A.
The biggest wild mushroom I ever ate was a huge horse mushroom about two foot across growing wild in a field- which are also very tasty when cooked, unfortunately this one had gotten infested with a few of the mushroom maggot flies and little maggots were coming out of it, I was determined not to be beaten by this problem so undetered I picked it and carefully carried it home-I was about 18 yrs old at the time,) when I cooked it I thought all the maggots would be killed and float to the top where I could just skim them off with a ladle,- however this was not so, and they remained in the mushroom, everybody who ate some of it with fried bacon and an egg, thought the maggots was pearl barley mixed in with the mushroom-(meat and veg all in the same pot ;D) so I kept very quiet with a wry smile on my face.-it was delicious
Another strange fungi we used to eat all those years ago back in the early sixties -was the giant puff ball, which was a huge ball shaped fungi mushroom, sometimes two foot across, if you broke one open it was full of powdery spores that rose in a cloud if you kicked it- sheep used to love to eat them also, but this is a thing of the past as you never ever see any now anywhere.
Does anyone grow them in the U.S.A.
The biggest wild mushroom I ever ate was a huge horse mushroom about two foot across growing wild in a field- which are also very tasty when cooked, unfortunately this one had gotten infested with a few of the mushroom maggot flies and little maggots were coming out of it, I was determined not to be beaten by this problem so undetered I picked it and carefully carried it home-I was about 18 yrs old at the time,) when I cooked it I thought all the maggots would be killed and float to the top where I could just skim them off with a ladle,- however this was not so, and they remained in the mushroom, everybody who ate some of it with fried bacon and an egg, thought the maggots was pearl barley mixed in with the mushroom-(meat and veg all in the same pot ;D) so I kept very quiet with a wry smile on my face.-it was delicious
Another strange fungi we used to eat all those years ago back in the early sixties -was the giant puff ball, which was a huge ball shaped fungi mushroom, sometimes two foot across, if you broke one open it was full of powdery spores that rose in a cloud if you kicked it- sheep used to love to eat them also, but this is a thing of the past as you never ever see any now anywhere.
