Comments on: the magic of mushrooms http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2006/06/the-magic-of-mushrooms/ Thu, 17 May 2012 02:21:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Matt http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2006/06/the-magic-of-mushrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Matt Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:12:35 +0000 http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2006/06/the-magic-of-mushrooms/#comment-47 Ok, here is where I diverge from the norm. I was brought up on mushrooms. Those mushroom picking expeditions you were hoping to go on were a weekly event for me as a kid. Dad would drag us out of bed at some ungodly hour to go hunting through the hill sides of South Canterbury NZ in search of wild mushrooms. We would scour the ground for nice plump looking ones and fill up buckets of them for Dad, who would take them home and turn them into what can only be called Mushroom goop. I suppose it was meant to be soup...but I had a rather unrefined palate at the age of 10, so It didn't go down well. To this day I have trouble enjoying mushrooms... even though I force myself to add them for effect to all my pseudo fancy dishes. Maybe one day it will all fall into place... like my olive renaissance, and when it does I'll come back and re-read this post :) Ok, here is where I diverge from the norm. I was brought up on mushrooms. Those mushroom picking expeditions you were hoping to go on were a weekly event for me as a kid. Dad would drag us out of bed at some ungodly hour to go hunting through the hill sides of South Canterbury NZ in search of wild mushrooms.

We would scour the ground for nice plump looking ones and fill up buckets of them for Dad, who would take them home and turn them into what can only be called Mushroom goop. I suppose it was meant to be soup…but I had a rather unrefined palate at the age of 10, so It didn’t go down well. To this day I have trouble enjoying mushrooms… even though I force myself to add them for effect to all my pseudo fancy dishes.

Maybe one day it will all fall into place… like my olive renaissance, and when it does I’ll come back and re-read this post :)

]]> By: Helgs http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2006/06/the-magic-of-mushrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Helgs Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:01:06 +0000 http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2006/06/the-magic-of-mushrooms/#comment-46 I was the dinner guest for the risotto and was just trying to sneakily lift the recipe and roll out elsewhere......thanks Missy Jules! I was the dinner guest for the risotto and was just trying to sneakily lift the recipe and roll out elsewhere……thanks Missy Jules!

]]> By: jules http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2006/06/the-magic-of-mushrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-41 jules Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:29:51 +0000 http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2006/06/the-magic-of-mushrooms/#comment-41 great minds think alike sue... hope your mushies work out well... great minds think alike sue… hope your mushies work out well…

]]> By: Sue http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2006/06/the-magic-of-mushrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Sue Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:16:57 +0000 http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2006/06/the-magic-of-mushrooms/#comment-40 hAh! I made a mushroom risotto on the weekend too. Your polenta with mixed mushrooms looks divine too. I have a bag of button mushrooms ready for the drying and polenta'ing! hAh! I made a mushroom risotto on the weekend too. Your polenta with mixed mushrooms looks divine too. I have a bag of button mushrooms ready for the drying and polenta’ing!

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