Mushrooms

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A friend of mine recently got me thinking about mushrooms.

I've only had canned mushrooms and frozen, all were gross, the flavor is unexplainable, and the texture is sickly chewy.

However, my friend has sauteed fresh mushrooms in butter, and said the taste reminds them of steak, yes... STEAK!! !! ! I love steak, and I wouldn't mind eating steak flavored fungi, but I have yet to take the plunge.

What is your experience with eating mushrooms, the kinds without Psilocybin of coarse or any other chemical that causes one to hallucinate.

They grow them in poop. They 'pasteurize' the poo to sterilize it and there's other stuff like peat moss etc in there but still. Poo fungus. Yuck.

most mushrooms remind me of eating funky fungussy cartilaginous rubber of a consistency in between crunchy and chewy.

I wouldn't say they taste like steak, but I do love sauteed mushrooms on my steak...

When you take fresh mushrooms and cook them down, they get a nice, somewhat nutty flavor. However, the texture will be a lot like canned mushrooms. So, they may not be your thing.

....I never really thought of them as chewie--more like al dente.

I think mushrooms are a good topping for burgers. Sometimes for omelettes.


Not so much for pizza.

fresh mushrooms are very different, i think they actually taste best raw but i rarely eat them that way. Very healthy for your immune system. I think they have unami so have similar morishness to meat etc.

Oyster mushrooms taste the best. Fry them in garlic, or eat them with tomatoes and pasta. They are wonderful. Chestnut mushrooms go well in stir fries.

They are disgusting from cans.

Just bought some portobellas, now to see how exactly I should cook these huge things...

On the downside, I have read that some mushrooms, porto's included, can have cancer causing chemicals in them (at least for animals)... Just about everything causes cancer these days.

I love them

Try this.

Get some whole button mushrooms. Wash and dry off. Remove the stems carefully and chop the stems.

Put a little olive oil on a paper towel and rub it on the outside of the caps lightly. Put the caps, hole side up, on a cookie sheet.

Put the chopped stems in a bowl. Add an egg. Add breadcrumbs, fresh grated romano cheese, minced garlic, basil, parsley, oregano. Stuff the mixture into the caps. Cook on about 350 in the oven until it's done, about 20 minutes or so, depending.


I also like to melt some butter in a pan and put a spoonfull of minced garlic in it and kind of stiry fry sliced mushrooms in it. That's great!

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For portabellas...I sprinkle them with garlic powder, salt and pepper and fry them in very hot oil (half canola, half olive) for a few minutes on each side.
I love shiitake mushrooms in salads raw. They're supposed to be good for you but I forgot why.
Olive Oil Mom's recipe for stuffed button mushrooms....yeah, that's a winner! My mom and I make them for Thanksgiving.

Speaking of button mushrooms, sometimes I can't sleep after eating them. Anyone else notice this?

I'm obsessed with mushrooms.
I could eat them for every meal- and have, before.
They're hands-down my favorite food.
I have them at every meal.

I couldn't if they tasted like steak, though. xP