Favorite Mushroom?
Do you have a favorite mushroom? For me, it's the versatile portabella. It's great in soup, grilled, roasted in a salad or on a sandwich, on a kebab, or thousands of other ways. What about you?
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27 Comments:
hands down, the shitake.
pumpkinspice at 10:44PM on 07/19/08
I love the baby portabella, I feel its a bit more versatile than the 'adult' portabella. I like to use them in salads, pizzas, fajitas and even as a complementary to veggies in curries.
arathi at 10:49PM on 07/19/08
Crimini and white button farmed in our own Chester County, PA! So versatile and great raw and cooked. I like grilled portabello as a substitute for meat.
PerkyMac at 11:10PM on 07/19/08
Can I have a few? Pretty please? Porcini (great for soups and sauces), portobello (including their young variation, crimini), shiitake and chanterelle mashrooms, I love them all and please don't make me pick just one:-).
brooke29 at 11:39PM on 07/19/08
I love all mushrooms! But my favorite is fresh morels. It is a combination of the taste, texture, and thrill of the hunt. Nothing better than a group of friends (or meeting new ones while on the hunt) foraging the forest looking for the fungi, setting up a cook top in the woods, and sauting them in a little butter. Oh my!
Michigander at 11:47PM on 07/19/08
Chanterelles, morels, really fresh straw mushrooms (most around here are pretty flavorless, but if you can get some exceptional ones, they have a sweet flavor and almost need no other dressing), wood ear mushrooms, bamboo fungus...I'm a little mushroom crazy...
fuuchan at 12:38AM on 07/20/08
Tough to choose just one. Between my most favorites -- shiitake, enoki/nameko, and matsutake...maybe enoki.
Cassaendra at 1:18AM on 07/20/08
I love the ones in tom-yum soup. I don't know the name though.
smile at 5:11AM on 07/20/08
I love 'em all, but morels are my fave.
ride&cook at 7:42AM on 07/20/08
MMmmm.....mushrooms, I will eat any variety. Baby portabella are used most often. Never eaten morels...Michigander's hunt sounds delicious.
JEP at 8:28AM on 07/20/08
Put me down in the "I love 'em all" category but for all around cooking, it's creminis. I love the texture of them when cooked, they don't turn into nothing.
One of my friends from Michigan and her BF both forage. I envy them!!
chiff0nade at 8:34AM on 07/20/08
I have to join the any and all camp!
huneybumper at 9:02AM on 07/20/08
Oh geez ~ I have never met a mushroom I didn't like. I don't think I can pick a "favorite", but when I have been able to get my mitts on some fresh morels, well, they would be my favorite......for the moment!
izatryt at 9:20AM on 07/20/08
I haven't had any white truffles yet, so for now, the Perigord Black Truffle I my favorite. A mycologist would probably scold me, I don't think technically speaking they are mushrooms, but it's close enough for me... After that, the humble shitake mushrooms rule, just because they are affordable, available year round, so flavorful, and versatile. High on the list are black trumpets, porcupine and chanterelles. I don't have any experience with morels or porcini which I'm really hoping to get to try some day.
In the end though, I too am in the LOVE EM ALL camp. Even the white mushrooms that are often found in industrial salads. They are usually the best part...
simon at 11:35AM on 07/20/08
withiout a doubt, morels. Then Chantrelles, porcini and their relatives. I've collected mushrooms wherever I lived and always found something local to thrill the taste buds.
fewteeth at 11:39PM on 07/20/08
Morels are by far my favorite. After that, chanterelles and black trumpets, and then pretty much everything else.
EtherMaiden at 10:43AM on 07/21/08
Have to be oyster; but I really fall into the "love em all" camp. I have been known to scrounge mushrooms from the plates of non-mushroom-loving friends.
cowprintrabbit at 12:16PM on 07/21/08
I am quite partial to shiitakes and enoki mushrooms.
marieinla at 12:51PM on 07/21/08
All!! Any!!! Me+Mushrooms=True Love. I moved from the Pacific Northwest to southern AZ, and (one) of my biggest disappointments is that I can no longer forage mushrooms. Many years ago I took a mycology course that included foraging for fresh wild mushrooms, identification, etc. and I used that knowledge well. I miss it so much. We used to drive for miles looking for various mushrooms, and would make an entire, really fun day of it. I miss that so much, not only the entertainment value, which was wonderful, but also the end of the day when I would go home and cook up my treasures. If it were a VERY good day, I would prep and freeze some for later use. (The course I took taught us the best ways of preserving them too. I even dehydrated some.) Waah!! In AZ, you can't even BUY fresh wild mushrooms. Well, once in a blue moon you might be able to find a few at Trader Joe's, but you will pay through the nose for them. I miss 'home' so much.
Carolina de Witte at 1:21PM on 07/21/08
There is a certain wild mushroom I like but have never been able to pinpoint which one it is. I've had it in a truffle macaroni and cheese dish and various other dishes. I know they're not portabello, shiitake, white button or any of those kinds. I want to say they're either chanterelle or porcini mushrooms. They're delicious! I don't know how to fully describe them because they're often cut up into little pieces.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 5:00PM on 07/22/08
@Hillary - for some reason, I have a feeling you're talking about porcini. And they are, indeed, delicious!
brooke29 at 5:11PM on 07/22/08
The ones on my plate!
Cary at 6:03PM on 07/22/08
Magic. Just kidding. I would have o say Portabella because they are so meaty. You can do so much with them, just love them.
pjracz10 at 11:32PM on 08/03/08
I used to be repulsed by mushrooms but am now quite enamored of them. Last night I cooked up some shiittakes and oysters from Chicago's Green City Market with a bit of olive oil, onion, and fresh Wisconsin cream, and it was divine. Hence, those are currently my top two!
emmab at 11:58PM on 08/03/08
I have found my people.
:)
I love mushrooms... no one around here seems to understand it, but I just absolutely adore them. broiled portabellos over spinach, crimini and button raw. perfectttt.
gretchenx5 at 3:38AM on 08/04/08
none of the above. Fungus grows on feet, and therefore is not fit to eat. :)
thepirateking at 3:41AM on 08/04/08
I never met a mushroom I didn't like, but I don't love Morells. I think it's a texture issue. They are just too chewy. Plus, I'm always wondering what might be hiding in all those holes.
Calichef at 4:41AM on 08/04/08