I just plain wouldn't eat a mushroom anybody found anywhere. My parents were big on mushroom hunting when I was a kid, I think that whole experience of being scared to death of picking one similar and dying is what held me back from a love of mushrooms I developed later in life...but I still couldn't eat a mushroom that wasn't store bought or ordered in a restaurant.
there was a study a while back that found that a large percentage of mushrooms in stores were mislabeled or not what they were supposed to be. I pick the chicken of the woods because it is one of 4 mushrooms that are easy to identify and don't have any toxic lookalikes. As long as you can tell the difference between pores and gills and look on the right trees you should be alright.
Most mushrooms I buy are round white mushrooms, I stuff them with Italian sausage, a teaspoon of hot pepper and cream cheese mixture then bake, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Sometimes I use Bella mushrooms in dishes and I usually keep a few jarred or canned mushrooms handy in case I want to throw some in a dish and I don't have any fresh ones at hand. I like fresh round white in salad more so then bella, the label says they are locally organic grown. There's other mushrooms that are rather large than I have never tried, their expensive for one thing and I haven't seen any recipes where they are used. Most of my cooking experience comes from the food network, my mom wasn't a Susie bake queen type so I never learned to cook, I don't know how my kids ever survived me. It took me forever to perfect banana bread, the NFL could have used a few loaves I baked as a pretty solid football. My kids were teenagers by the time Emeril appeared on the scene via the food network, I used to be glued to the food network in awe of what would have been deemed a simple endeavor to most housewives and I was just getting it, "Oh, that's how they do that" type thing...lol. After living in a dysfunctional family and four years spent in a relationship that took me four years to realize I didn't want to be in I was busy being a freedom loving party girl, baking was the furthest thing away from my mind.
usually I just eat the regular grocery store white mushrooms myself, I got a kit to grow oyster mushrooms a while ago and those were pretty good, the chicken of the woods is amazing though, tastes like lemony chicken/lobster.
No you wouldn't eat a mushroom I found near the grocery store or "no" you don't think that is a reishi?
I just plain wouldn't eat a mushroom anybody found anywhere. My parents were big on mushroom hunting when I was a kid, I think that whole experience of being scared to death of picking one similar and dying is what held me back from a love of mushrooms I developed later in life...but I still couldn't eat a mushroom that wasn't store bought or ordered in a restaurant.
there was a study a while back that found that a large percentage of mushrooms in stores were mislabeled or not what they were supposed to be. I pick the chicken of the woods because it is one of 4 mushrooms that are easy to identify and don't have any toxic lookalikes. As long as you can tell the difference between pores and gills and look on the right trees you should be alright.
Most mushrooms I buy are round white mushrooms, I stuff them with Italian sausage, a teaspoon of hot pepper and cream cheese mixture then bake, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Sometimes I use Bella mushrooms in dishes and I usually keep a few jarred or canned mushrooms handy in case I want to throw some in a dish and I don't have any fresh ones at hand. I like fresh round white in salad more so then bella, the label says they are locally organic grown. There's other mushrooms that are rather large than I have never tried, their expensive for one thing and I haven't seen any recipes where they are used. Most of my cooking experience comes from the food network, my mom wasn't a Susie bake queen type so I never learned to cook, I don't know how my kids ever survived me. It took me forever to perfect banana bread, the NFL could have used a few loaves I baked as a pretty solid football. My kids were teenagers by the time Emeril appeared on the scene via the food network, I used to be glued to the food network in awe of what would have been deemed a simple endeavor to most housewives and I was just getting it, "Oh, that's how they do that" type thing...lol. After living in a dysfunctional family and four years spent in a relationship that took me four years to realize I didn't want to be in I was busy being a freedom loving party girl, baking was the furthest thing away from my mind.
usually I just eat the regular grocery store white mushrooms myself, I got a kit to grow oyster mushrooms a while ago and those were pretty good, the chicken of the woods is amazing though, tastes like lemony chicken/lobster.