On eating mushrooms...

[tylik]

So yesterday I found a bunch of really tastey wild mushrooms. As is traditional, it was then important to find people to attempt to feed them to. This is even more fun to do at someone else's place, especially if they wash dishes


What was to become dinner... (most of the rest is garden surplus...)


We had Leccinum scabrum (birch boletes) cooked with onions, hot wax peppers, garlic, red wine, tomatoes (it was not a tomato sauce, just a sauce with some tomatoes) with just a little cashew butter to thicken the sauce, served over linguine. This was the experiment, and I at least was fairly happy with it. I think I would use sweet peppers too, next time.

Then we had lovely almond scented Agaricus augustus cooked with apples and onions. Extremely simple, but quite autumnal.

And then we finished with Coprinus comates browned with onions and garlic, the pan deglazed with cream sherry, and then cream added and cooked over a low flame to thicken.

Meanwhile, all the blackberries disappeared.

This was fun, and makes me think wistfully of some sort of dinner club thing...