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RE: Steemit Iron Chef 2017 #14: Wild Mushrooms All The Way! - Fomitopsis Tea, Roasted Chanterelles, Deep-fried Elfin Saddles, with Candied Witches Butter and Cats Tongues!
This is an excellent quality post - thanks so much for putting in so much effort as always. One thing I just wanted to say "Elfin Saddle?? Coolest name ever!!"
Glad you enjoyed my post. The Elfin Saddles are a neat group of mushrooms. The tops of some really look like a saddle that an elf could sit on. But not all of them are edible. And others, prepared wrong, would have your liver trying to metabolize rocket fuel, real rocket fuel. I had a Helvella maculata that I didn't eat, because they haven't been studied for their level of rocket fuel production.
Lol, doesn't sound like a healthy exercise for one's liver!
Thank goodness that the compounds are so volatile. And when I parboil the mushrooms, I turn on the exhaust fan over the stove, and I do do something in another room for the few minutes that the mushrooms boil and outgas. It's still easier and safer than cooking a chicken, lol -- and those chickens are downright dangerous from bacteria.
Aaahh yes, that age old rivalry, Chicken versus mushroom! he he he
haha -- I like the mushrooms! :D
I suppose you are over the other side of the pond, I'm not sure that eating chicken here is quite such a risky pursuit, although let's wait and see if the TPP or some other variant of it finally gets through and pushes down the standards. I suspect all the socio-environmental standards in Britain will plummet once Brexit has been bungled through. I'll just escape back to Ireland at that stage I think!
One funghi I'd love to try is chicken of the woods. Do you get much of it over there?
Here, they tell us to not even rinse the raw chicken, because it will potentially spread bad bacteria all over our kitchen. Nobody says that about a mushroom!
Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus)is a great mushroom. I didn't get any this year, but have in the past. It really does have the consistency of chicken. I like it in soup. When I find them, there's usually enough to freeze for many meals. And then there's the Hen of the Woods (Grifola frondosa). And the Fried Chicken (Lyophyllum decastes). There are a lot of edible mushroom chickens out there! :D
never hears of the fried chicken, i must check that one out!
And there's the Turkey Tails, too (Trametes versicolor). I use them like mushroom-flavored chewing gum when I find them. So many good mushrooms!
"mushroom-flavored chewing gum"? I guess you've got to try it to be sold on it!
By the way Tanya (Tanya isn't it?), are you familiar with the Association of Foragers? It's something that really was driven by people in the UK, but the remit and vision is to be international. I just thought it might be interesting to you.
I've never heard of that group, so thanks. I'll check them out. (And I'm no Tanya, lol. I'm Chris or Holly, either one, depending on how I meet folks -- Holly on Facebook and to my family, Chris on YouTube because I used that in my channel name long ago.)
ah, yes it was Holly how you introduced yourself in your vlog, ha ha ha, not sure were I got Tanya from!!!
: )