If you hunt mushrooms in the fall, you’re probably familiar with honey mushrooms. If you’re familiar with honey mushrooms, you probably know the shrimp of the woods or aborted entoloma. These two mushrooms often grow in close proximity due to one having an effect on the other, so cooking them together as I do here…
Honey Mushroom Recipes
Honey mushrooms (various types of Armillaria) are an intermediate skill level mushroom that are delicious, enjoyed around the world, and can be found in large quantities. If you're new to them, please refer to my basic guide to honey mushrooms first. If you have some you'd like to cook, I'd start with some simple wild mushroom recipes like Honey Mushroom Goulash, marinated honeys, or traditional Honey Mushrooms in Sour Cream Sauce.
Marinated Honey Mushrooms
I cook honey mushrooms all sorts of ways, but these marinated honeys are the first thing you should make if you’re new to them, or if you’re a honey-harvesting veteran who’s looking for something new tricks. They’re delicious, addicting, the perfect compliment to a charcuterie platter, and work warm or cold. Most of us are…
Honey Mushroom Bourgignon
Once the cold weather hits, a good Bourgignon is one of the first things that I usually make each year. If you’re wondering what it is, it’s just beef burgundy (here I use venison neck but another stewing cut will work). You take some stewing meat, soak it in decent red wine overnight, then brown…
Honey Mushroom Gulyas / Goulash
Honey Mushroom Goulash / Gulyas has been in the works for years over here, and I’m excited to finally share it with you. It’s without a doubt, one of the best things I’ve had with them, and, it’s pretty traditional, more or less. I know I’ll get some contentious comments about my creative liberties here,…
Honey Mushroom and Beef Runzas / Bierocks
Back at the Salt Cellar there was an older couple that would come in every weekend, the staff and I called them our favorite couple. Salad, split entree, then they’d each have a different scoop of ice cream to share. I loved talking to them in between pushes on Friday or Saturday nights. The man…
Pan Roasted Honey Mushrooms
A couple years ago I shared a wild mushroom recipe I borrowed from David Arora for cooking honey mushrooms (Armillaria mellea and others) alongside their peeled stems, which is useful when you find a bunch of honeys that have grown to have large or long stems, assuming that the bugs didn’t get to the stems…
Sweet and Sour Venison-Honey Mushroom Soup
Hot and sour soup! Is it Asian food? Nope. Asian cuisine is not the only one to take advantage of the awesome combination of sweet and sour. There is another locale that values the combo of sweet and sour, and it’s Eastern Europe. Just thinking about a bowl of sour, sweet, meaty soup makes my…
Honey Mushrooms
Honey mushrooms (various Armillaria species) are one of the best fall mushrooms out there, with a caveat or two. If the conditions are right, you could walk out of your favorite patch of woods with a literal truckload of these, it’s all about timing though. When I describe them to people who want to…
