/ck/ - Food & Cooking

depends on the shroom, but do the classics first

soup and pie are top tier

>>17168728
pierogi with mushrooms and sour cabbage
ravioli
zapiekanka with wild mushrooms, mozzarella and pelati tomato sauce
pasta with fried mushrooms, sun dried tomato and zucchini in cream sauce
pickled wild mushrooms
tartare sauce
scrambled eggs with chanterelles
chanterelle pasta
seared and roasted pork loin marinaded in rosemary that was set aflame and put out using beer and with cumin, stuffed with riga mushrooms, spinach and feta cheese

>>17168728
I throw some into most dishes i make

fry some ginger over medium heat, add in 100g of wood ear and stir fry it. then add about 200g diced pineapple and cook for a little bit and finally mix in 1tbsp of soy sauce and seasame oil and mix and cook until done

>>17168728
Had a chanterelle, ruccola, parma ham pizza and wow was it good, i fucking ate the plate :D

>>17168728
Portabella caps, stem off and wiped with a wet paper towel
Marinate in 1/4 cup of of the following : Balsamic vinegar, dijon mustard, olive oil, soy sauce
Add 1 tbsp honey and salt to the marinade.
Let sit for...eeeeh, an hour or more depending on how long you like, play with it.
I have a little George Foreman grill/panini maker that I got for my bday and I'll just press them in there, but I've done this before on a cast iron skillet and that works well too. Or hell, pop it in the oven and bake it if you don't mind not having a sear.

>>17169308
Sounds like i must give it a try :D

>>17168728
>chanterelle
Why are decent quality ones so hard to find.

>>17168728
>Any cool recipe?
Yes. Take dried mushrooms. Grind them up. Soak them in your favorite citrus juice for at least 20 minutes. Slam it. Wait 20-30 minutes. Blast off into outer space

>>17171364
I've never had a decent wild hand picked chanterelle.

>>17169308
Sounds fire af desu senpai, not op but I'll try it out. As for you, OP, I mostly use mushrooms as a compliment to a steak/burger or other hearty dish. The only time I've ever used them as something main course ish would be stuffed mushrooms.

>>17171371
everything around here is either dehydrated or freeze dried. The only ones I can get consistently and love cooking with is Shitake & Oyster mushrooms.

>>17168728
Sure, take the spore of your choice. Use the sterilized medium of your choice. I'm using rye grain and vermiculite for my Psylocibin, Bear Tooth and Lions main mushrooms. For my Ghost Fungus I'm using sterlized poplar sawdust.
I have some Pestalotiopsis microspora mycelium growing in a bed of sawdust and shredded bottle plastic. I haven't got it to fruit yet but it has started breaking down the plastic

>>17171419
Do you get mushroom flys in your house?

>>17168728

1. Get some chanterelles and brush off any dirt (or wash them, idgaf)
2. Split them apart with your hands to quarter them. Notice the styrofoam-like texture as a reference for later.
3. Heat up some neutral oil over medium-high heat with a pinch of salt and cook the mushrooms until they lose the styrofoam texture, about 5-7 minutes.
4. Deglaze with a tablespoon of some dry, white wine such as Sauvignon blanc, and cook until you no longer can smell any alcohol (about 1-2 minutes)
5. Remove from heat and add a tablespoon of butter and melt gently.

Wa-la

>>17171435
nah I live in Utah, it's ridiculously dry here and typically either too hot, too cold, too dry and too polluted for good mushroom biomes. Plus I work as an exterminator and arborist so I have plenty of chemicals sitting around. I do occasionally find some decent morel patches though and I have a long term experiment trying to get truffles to grow in Aspen groves. That's been going on for just under 3 years now, when I checked this last fall I did find some which was a nice surprise, the deer and shit have been doing their jobs spreading the spore around

>>17171371
If you are buy ‘hand-picked’ ones from the store, that is likely your problem. My friend and I harvest them from the forests nearby and we generally laugh at what we see in the grocery stores. It seems like the professional foragers keep all the good ones for themselves and high-end restaurants and give the bottom of the barrel to the stores.

Also, mushroom stands at farmer’s markets can be good too.

>>17172167
Those are always so cool, I know nothing about mushrooms so it’s interesting to see all the wild varieties

>>17171419
>Lion's Mane
Based, it sounds really good but I haven't been able to find it for sale and I would want to try it before growing my own. How much space does mushroom-growing take up?

enoki with butter
easy and delicious

>>17171379
Thanks! Also yeah OP, seriously look into stuffed mushrooms. You can go as simple as taking a portabella cap and using it to make a pizza cup to some seriously fun and crazy stuff

Sorry no sorry for the pun.

>>17172167
>from the store, that is likely your problem
I picked them

>>17172954
We need answers about this. I've pondered growing some to sell but is it even profitable?

>>17168728
Chicken of the woods pie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDbdCl3k2GM

>>17168728
i like eating mushrooms just as much as they weird me out, they do not look natural at all and definitely do not look like something i would want to put into my mouth but they taste amazing
try adding mushrooms to brown gravy, i imagine that would be good, or as garnish to foods

>>17171369
Will this work with dried shiitake mushrooms??? I need to know

>>17174402
Lol. You wish

>>17171369
oh hey i used to do this but with lemonade and a magic bullet running for 5 straight minutes
thought my buddy was chock full of shit when he told me this one and that I'd just be wasting perfectly good golden teachers
BOY was I wrong
went for a walk thinking I'd be just fine but instead got chased by geese and experienced picrel

>>17168728
Get 20g of Northeastern Queensland luminescent mushrooms

50g Darien Gap Jungle Shitaks

Mix them all in a rock bowl in a 70% humidity room

Lay each mushy down and sing "Believe" by Cher to them.

Once the mushys have awoken, pierce them with a toothpick and enjoy.

>>17171369
i can only trip twice in a week or so it seems. dosing too soon after my tolerance was just upped just makes me sleepy.

>>17174729
cringe

>>17168728
risotto

>>17172954
>>17173676

Sorry I have a pretty "professional" at home setup but two grow Chambers, my humidifier and my spawn jars take up on of my double doored kitchen cabinets.
Mushroom growing hardly takes up any space. I also have a couple mason jars in my fridge for Propagating more spore because I'm a cheap bastard and don't want to pay for more spore when it's easy to produce. The batch of lizard king I grew over the summer produced 7 pounds fresh, I didn't weigh it after I dried it but I was everyone's best friend for a while giving out bags of mushrooms.

Lions mane is honestly one of my favorite gourmet mushrooms. I developed a shellfish allergy in my 30s and at least texture wise it's the closest I'll get. They are a bit bitter if you undercook them though

Mushroom growing can be profitable, but pretty small scale unless you have a lot of money to invest. But if you have local farmer markets and the local laws are cool with it you can make some good side cash.
I don't sell the magic mushrooms I grow but obviously that could be profitable too. I've just found that microdosing helps my depression more than any of the other medications I've taken including ketamine.

>>17174644
Ha! Yeah that shit hits

>>17176457
Sustained, daily microdosing or do you just do every weekend or something?

>>17176475
Sustained daily dosing. I wish I could give you more precession but like a quarter of a 00 cap with finely ground mushroom and just ground flax seed in the rest of the cap.

>>17169126
good post

i like chicken of the woods breaded/battered and made into nuggies, i did some in an air fryer that were 10/10 this past summer. with oysters i usually do a stir fry. morels are required by law to be sauteed with the good kind of butter (garlic and black pepper highly recommended)

>>17171369
lemon tek is the best but nothing beats a pitcher of mushroom tea with a group of friends on a hot summer day about an hour before sunset. optimally next to a lake, a campfire or both. add one or more of the following for varied interesting experiences: live music, a projector, glow sticks, body paint

>>17171419
mycoremediation is extremely cool. i saw a contract out for a company to clean up an old EPA/superfund site in a small town near me (iirc a factory of some kind that worked with oil/chemicals had been torn down) and i thought it would be interesting to propose to use mycoremediation techniques (mycelium bales mixed in with the soil, more or less) to rehabilitate the site. also very interested in applying this technique to dioxin/Agent Orange sites in vietnam.

>>17176505
Yeah dude it's honestly cool as shit. Strategic use of this shit would actually capture the majority of plastics before they hit the ocean, there are practical applications of incubating the mycelium in landfills to eat all the waste that won't decay on its own. Mushrooms are ironically the future

>>17176457
Based fellow mushroom cultivator

>>17176457
Very cool.
Does this seem like a good beginner's resource?
https://northspore.com/