Apartment Therapy Tagged: mushrooms

My Mushroom Hunting Weekend

Last weekend, armed with my Opinel mushroom knife, I drove 2 hours up Highway 1 to Salt Point State Park on the Sonoma Coast to join other members of the Mycological Society of San Francisco on the mo...

Recipe: Mushroom and Leek Risotto

I've been craving a nice, hearty risotto for a while. With the cold and wet weather recently, I decided this week would be a good time for this type of dish. I had it in my mind that I wanted to m...

Ingredient Spotlight: Wood Ear Mushrooms

Perhaps you've noticed these thin, brown slivers of crunchy, squeaky mushrooms in hot and sour soup or in stir-fries. Called wood ear mushrooms, they're more easily found in dried form, but fresh one...

Rachel's Mushroom Ragout with Spinach-Parm Polenta
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Mushroom Ragout with Spinach-Parm Polenta Category: Vegetarian How long does it take? About 30 minutes Name: Rachel Why is it a favorite meal? Hearty and comforting, this dish is perfect for...

Recipe Recommendation: Beef Stroganoff

I always get so crestfallen when I see people making beef stroganoff using those powdered stroganoff mix packets. They're so unnecessary; you can make stroganoff from scratch rather easily, and it ta...

Tip: Use Mushroom Stems in Your Next Omelet
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All too often we slice the caps of our mushrooms and toss the stems. It's especially tempting when working with portabellas, where the wide, meaty caps are the the main event, and the stems are an aft...

Recipe: Quick Pasta with Dried Morels and Fresh Ramps

Spring is progressing, and the season for early spring foraged treats like morels and ramps will be over soon. So eat them while you can still find them! This pasta takes these two spring delicacies a...

Quick Tip: How to Clean Morel Mushrooms

Morels are one of our favorite mushrooms of all time, and they're in season right now! Since they're harvested from the wild, morels come with a fair amount of grit and all those little nooks and cran...

Good Question: How Do I Use Mushroom Stock?

Here's an interesting question from Beth, who is looking forw ways to use the broth left over after reconstituting dried mushrooms. I started using more dried mushrooms recently - shitake, porcini, an...

Portobello Mushrooms: The Steak of the Vegetarian World?

We've all heard it a hundred times. "Portobello mushrooms- they're thick and meaty, just like a steak." Well, no, actually. They aren't steak. But they do have a texture and flavor that fits in nicely...

Recipe Review: Heidi Swanson's Mushroom Casserole

Mushroom casserole with eggs, ricotta, sour cream, cheese, and hearty whole grains. That's the picture we had when we first saw this on Heidi's blog, and it called out to us. It's been on our to-make ...

Recipe Recommendation: Mushroom Casserole from 101 Cookbooks

You know how sometimes you see a recipe, or even just hear someone talking about it, and you just know you're going to have to make that for yourself very soon? That was this mushroom casserole recipe...

Quick Tip: The Best Way to Store Mushrooms

Mushrooms aren't exactly the hardiest of ingredients! Once home, they can become slimy and develop brown spots within just a few days. If we can't use them all right away, we try to do whatever we can...

Recipe: Rich No-Cream Wild Mushroom Pasta Sauce

This rich, creamy pasta sauce was the result of an experiment. We wanted to make a creamy, mushroom-y pasta topping with no cream. We're trying to watch our diet a little better, and while we were eat...

Ingredient Spotlight: Lobster Mushrooms

Lobster mushrooms are not true mushrooms; they're parasites that grow on mushrooms and turn them a bright orange color. The host mushroom is virtually unidentifiable after the parasite matures. In s...

Tip: Save Shiitake Mushroom Stems for Soups!

Most recipes only use the shiitake mushroom cap and say to discard the tough stem. But instead of just throwing them away, try using those stems to flavor your soups and stocks!...

Mycological Society of San Francisco

This morning, I sent in my $25 membership fee to the Mycological Society of San Francisco. I've always wanted to learn how to identify and collect mushrooms, and the Bay Area is a wonderful place for...

Seasonal Spotlight: Abalone Mushrooms

Earlier this week, we talked about pink oyster mushrooms. Today we'll discuss another variety of oyster mushroom: the abalone mushroom....

Cooking Basics: How to Sauté Mushrooms

Sautéing mushrooms can get kind of tricky - since you can eat them raw, they can be technically be "done" any time! But here's the secret to getting a succulent, earthy flavor from your mushroo...

Quick Tip: Using Scissors Instead of a Knife

The whole point of last night's dinner was to be quick and easy. I had a surprise dinner guest in my mother-in-law and a baby who we'd planned to eat with at 6:30 so the right balance of quick and pr...

Hey! You Can Wash Mushrooms

We once interviewed a mushroom farmer for a magazine article, and she said something we never forgot: "Mushrooms need a shower, not a bath." And so, while every cook we see on TV tells us to wipe ea...

San Francisco Market: Far West Fungi

Are you making mushroom soup? Do you want to try a matsutake mushroom? How about some truffle oil? Chances are, if you live in San Francisco, we know where you can find all these mushrooms, and mor...

The Hungry Reader: Hobbits, Mushrooms and Bacon

What would Hungry Reader month be without a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits and their everlasting love of mushrooms? The small, homey people in those books have an enormous love of food that far...

Flickr Find: More Pasta with Mushrooms

Photo by Flickr member Hypnotic AubergineOur recipe for easy, healthy wild mushroom pasta sauce below has us dreaming about a big mess of mushrooms tonight... ...

Survey: Do You Wash Mushrooms Before Cooking Them?

Shiitake and oyster mushrooms are a highlight of the winter time Greenmarkets here in NYC. We've been grilling them for an English pub inspired breakfast, tossing them into fritatta, stews, and a he...

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