Here’s a study in how a dish can be completely different in a short time after it’s been composed. I was thinking about how to eat a beefsteak mushroom / oxtongue fungus (Fistulina hepatica) I had the other week, those shelf fungus that give red juice when cut, have a slightly tart taste, and, that…
Beefsteak
Beefsteak Mushroom Relish
Cutting up my first beefsteak mushroom (Fistulina hepatica) was a mess. My cutting board looked like a murder scene, my hands were tacky and red, there was sticky trim scraped off of the knife in little piles around the board. In the end though, I did get a nice pile of dice from it to…
The Beefsteak Mushroom
More and more I’ve found I have to hunt mushrooms vicariously through other people during the growing season. Thankfully I’ve built a pretty decent network around Minnesota and Wisconsin, and from there outliers stretching from China to Russia, Britain to Australia and beyond. Comparing notes on mushroom seasons around the world is an amazing by-product…