Tastes Like Food » recipes http://www.tasteslikefood.com Recipe and photo food blog, includes restaurant reviews, healthy recipes, vegan ingredients, food experiments. By Colorado foodies. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:28:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Shiitake Mushrooms http://www.tasteslikefood.com/2009/05/19/shitake-mushrooms/ http://www.tasteslikefood.com/2009/05/19/shitake-mushrooms/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 13:48:18 +0000 Mixed Greens http://www.tasteslikefood.com/?p=474 I recently purchased an indoor shiitake mushroom kit.  Growing mushrooms is perfect for me, because my home doesn’t get a whole lot of natural sun.  I’ve harvested a couple of mushrooms and thought I’d share the pictures.

mushroom patch

Here is my mushroom patch. It is in the rubbermaid bin to keep spores from dirtying the carpet. The mister bottle is to the right. The plastic beyond the mister bottle is a humidity tent, and the skewers in the patch help hold the tent up. You can see a new mushroom at the right of the far end of the patch.

one shitake mushroom

Here is one shiitake mushroom that I clipped from the patch.

sauteeing the mushrooms

The kit came with a number of recipes, but so far I've just been sauteeing the mushrooms in a bit of oil or butter. It's delicious.

boiling the stems for stock

I have read that the stems get too tough for cooking, so I boil the stems for soup stock. I then freeze the stock for future use.

Here’s my shitake cooking recipe so far.

Ingredients

  • fresh shiitake mushrooms
  • oil or butter

Directions

  • Wash the mushrooms
  • Cut off their stalks, save for boiling in water to make soup stock
  • Slice caps in half, then cut into sections
  • Heat oil or butter in pan on medium-low
  • Add mushrooms
  • Sautee until done.  The color will change and they will cook down.
  • Serve hot

Mmmmmmm…..

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