Like Mushrooms?

[QuickSilver]

I like mushrooms... but I'm not particularly fond of Portabellas. It's something about those dark gills that turns me off.. My favorite now has been Shiitake. LOVE them in stir fry.

 

[oakapple]

Yum! I love pan fried field mushrooms, the very large ones, cooked in a little butter.

 

[Cookie]

Mushroom fried rice is one of my favorites.

 

[Glinda]

I love mushrooms but would never go collecting them in the wild, even with an expert. Many years ago (early 70s) I lived in Santa Cruz, CA. (I hope I'm remembering this accurately. If any of you are more familiar with the incident and believe I'm wrong, please advise.) There was a family with several kids who regularly went mushroom hunting. One day they gathered some mushrooms that looked just like the edible variety they liked. They all ate them except one kid who, I believe, was a teenager at the time. The whole family died. So sad. That poor boy lost his whole family at such a young age.

 

[Cookie]

That is a very tragic story, Glinda, and I think I remember reading about it. I'm very careful about wild mushrooms and don't have occasion to eat them anymore anyway. Someone once showed me a picture in a book of a highly poisonous white one called an 'Avenging Angel'. Nowadays I only eat mushrooms I buy in the grocery store.

 

[DoItMyself]

We probably have mushrooms (fresh, not canned) 2-3 times each week. I either cook them in something or we prepare them as a side dish.

 

[ndynt]

Love mushrooms....even raw.

 

[Krystal]

We only like button mushrooms and morel mushrooms. I hunted morel mushrooms all the time as a kid. We would pick bread bags full of them. Some of my family still goes mushroom hunting.

 

[dobielvr]

Yes, I like them. Lately, I 've been putting them in my scrambled eggs in the morning.

 

[spookycat]

One summer in the late 70s, I went to a friend's house for the weekend to visit. We went Morel Mushroom hunting, and we found a ridiculous amount of them between the three of us. Several large metal dishpans full of them. So fun

 

[smiley]

anyway they come - nourishing!!

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I do like mushrooms, although I'm not crazy about how some of them look. I guess I prefer the little white (and brown) ones. I had pasta with mushroom sauce at Olive Garden and it was very good. I decided to try penne with cream of mushroom soup and extra mushrooms. I had my son pick up some for me, already sliced. I sauteed them in butter before adding them to the soup. Came out okay, but Olive Garden was better. It was the first time I've had mushrooms in this house in over a decade. My son doesn't like them (I hardly cook for him anyway).

 

[Aunt Bea]

My father used to bring home buckets of field mushrooms and giant puffballs when I was a kid but I wouldn’t feel comfortable with my knowledge to safely do that.

Baby Bella mushrooms are about as exciting as I get.

I enjoy them fried as part of a big breakfast platter, stuffed, added to pasta sauce or as a topping for a baked potato.

 

[Jules]

Mushrooms are really good but a bit of a pain to clean. I wipe them with a damp paper towel or a little brush. Some people peel them; I’m not one of those people.

I’ve done the throw them in a brown paper bag, little bit of water and then shake the ‘sh*t‘ off them method. They may be clean enough. It seems to me that they absorb too much moisture.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Dried mushrooms are handy to have in the pantry.

We have a Polish specialty store that sells various brands at much more reasonable prices than those found in mainstream grocery stores.

I usually run a knife through them before adding them to soups and sauces.

 

[Nathan]

I wouldn't know where to start sorting out the edible from the poisonous variety

 

[RadishRose]

Love them fried in butter and piled atop French toast.

 

[Twostep]

We use to go hunting for them in The Alps.
Now we eat a lot of them though store bought. Parasol which is considered a delicacy grew in the grass of our front yard in Texas. It rained and they showed up.

 

[Paco Dennis]

We have a couple fallen old trees across the creek that we get oyster mushrooms from. About 4 lbs a year. We put them in eggs, soups, stews, alone with butter, etc.
We haven't seen many morels on our farm the past few years. The oysters come around late Oct.

 

[astralcat]

Don M - I completely agree with you about Morel mushrooms. We used to pick them in the woods when I was young. Sometimes Mom just sliced them up and fried them in butter/ a little salt, and we ate that as a side dish. So delicious.

 

[Michael Z]

Love them fried in butter and piled atop French toast.

Don't know about the french toast, but I sure love them fried in butter. For my last batch of chili, I fried mushrooms along with onions til they were both a bit brown.

 

[MaidMarian]

Here are a few morel mushrooms I gathered during my walk in the park.Delicious!

 

[Knight]

Yes but not that kind. I developed a taste for field mushrooms when I was a kid. They were plentiful
on our property in Ohio. We would pick them, fry them in butter, and just eat a pile of them plain.

Needed to use your post to explain scooping out large mushrooms like that to fill with what is typically used as sloppy joe mix. Topped with a slice of smoked provolone cheese. Broil that to melt the cheese. That & so many other ways to use different mushrooms.