When I’m hunting Hen of the Woods, aborted entolomas can get passed up as I scan the trees for a white oak with a giant mushroom at it’s base. It’s a shame to pass them up since aborted entolomas are so easy to hunt and cook, but if every mushroom tasted as good as every…
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Aborted Entolomas Fra Diavolo
Here’s a great way to use up those aborted entolomas. Fra-diavolo is a classic Italian preparation, it means “devil style”, and I definitely like it spicy. You could really make anything you want, add some chili and tomato, and call it fra-diavolo. There is something special about pasta though. I’d made plenty of spicy pastas…
Suspect Sub-Species: Giant Aborted Entolomas
Wandering around the woods in Minnesota I see plenty of funky mushrooms. For the past couple years though, I have seen, very rarely, an interesting phenomena. Aborted entoloma mushrooms are usually thought to be a product of an interaction of honey mushrooms and entolomas. When they grow in close proximity, the entolomas react somehow…
Shellfish Ragu, Aborted Entolomas, Heirloom Tomatoes, Mint
I knew a couple people had spoken about these things called aborted entolomas when I started picking mushrooms, but it took me about a year to be confident in recognizing them. Information about their edibility is out there, but there is not tons of it. Guides from the Pacific Northwest did not discuss it, but…
Shrimp of the Woods: Aborted Entoloma Mushrooms
The shrimp of the woods! Also known as aborted entolomas-a terrible name for an easily identifiable, edible wild mushroom. I had heard of these through another chef friend of mine, but it took me a while to find them on my own. They look like strange white popcorn balls that crawl out of the earth….