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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!
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!