Mushroom Meditations

[kiya]

I made Soup.

Mostly when I've made Soup I make it with shiitake mushrooms, because I really, really like shiitake mushrooms. I suspect it might be normally made with white mushrooms (wiredferret, can you confirm your intent on this?).

A while back, I went to inspect the mushroom section of the local grocery, because, well, I do that sort of thing occasionally. (I occasionally ponder making roasted stuffed mushrooms like were made at a gathering at brooksmoses's flat I think the first time I was out there, but I don't remember what goes in them, so I just ponder.)

I saw, in the dried mushrooms section, a packet labelled "Polish Cepes".

The small print revealed that these were Boletus luteus. (I think, if I've remembered how to spell it between checking the package, stubbing my little toe on a heavy can, and coming back to type.) An online dictionary reveals to me that porcino mushrooms are also Boletus genus. It's Boletus edulis that's the king of mushrooms, apparently, and nobody's figured out how to cultivate it. But hey, I'm in the right genus.

According to my Polish cookbook, boletus mushrooms are referred to in Poland as "real mushrooms". Mushroom-picking is something of the official folk-pastoral activity, apparently, complete with poetic tributes.

But for now I have Soup and it's full of mushrooms. Definitely different with the cepes than the shiitake.

Mmm, soup.

Comments

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

That reminds me. I made Soup for my last meal before I left home. Was good Soup, and I was meaning to thank you and oneironaut and wiredferret for recipe, and inspiration. So, thanks. I used ordinary mushrooms, for the record.

I picked one!

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Two, actually. Outside the movie theater. But they were of the Agaricus genus and thus not so very exciting as boletes would have been. Not quite as real. :-)

[wiredferret.livejournal.com]

I do use white mushrooms, when I use them at all. But recipes are loved by meaningful changes.

[silmarian.livejournal.com]

Mushrooms?


ewwww....

*grin*

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

Happy to be of service.

I use portabella mushrooms: they're my favorite, and ... honestly, it hadn't occurred to me to use anything else. My roommate bought a whole bunch of them recently and I've been eating them on everything. Mmm.