A good, simple chowder made with wild mushrooms has been a reader request for a while here that I finally got around to posting. It comes together in just under an hour, and is a good way to use some fresh or dried wild mushrooms if you need a bowl of comfort food. A soup…
Hericium Mushrooms (Lions Mane)
The Hericiums are a wonderful genus of mushrooms that include the commonly cultivated lions mane, and others. They have a mild flavor and a texture often compared to crab. If you're new to them, refer to my introductory guide to Hericiums. If you have some to cook, you must try my Lions Mane Crabcakes-one of the most popular recipes on this website, and the first lions mane crabcake on the Internet.
Steamed Hericium with Fried Herbs and Drawn Butter
If you hunt wild mushrooms, you probably know some of the flavor comparisons for well known species. Chicken of the woods taste like chicken, chanterelles smell like apricots, slippery jacks taste like viscous slugs (fresh at least), candy caps taste like maple syrup and hericium mushrooms cook a bit like crab (note that I said…
Hericium Crab Cakes
This is the original lions mane mushroom crab cake recipe you’ve been looking for. It’s one of the most popular mushroom recipes ever on this site. If I get asked for my go-to recipe for Hericium / Lions mane mushrooms, crab cakes are usually the answer. Don’t get me wrong, they’re perfectly good sautéed…
Seared Tenderloins with Hericiums and King Crab
It’s been a while since I’ve seen some good fruiting of hericiums in Minnesota-a couple years. It’s not that I don’t have anywhere to go and pick them, it’s just that as is the case with hen of the woods and chickens, sometimes they skip a year or two and you won’t see them at…
Hericium Mushrooms
Hericiums are a strange, striking mushroom, like an alien life-form. Habitat These like to come up in the late fall in the Midwest, when the leaves start to drop from the trees, but they’re choosy as to where they grow, and to me it seems like each mushroom eating the decomposing tree can have their…