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Field Mushrooms April 17, 2008 05:29AM |
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Re: Field Mushrooms April 17, 2008 06:33AM |
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Joan,
Maybe Helen can help you. On Saturday's kitchen and garden show on Radio Live, I caught a caller talking about this as I passed through the room. I didn't get all of the call, but I did hear the caller say that he/she puts them into a brown paper bag and freezes them like that. If there was anything done to them before this, Helen would probably remember.
Yes, the first of the season, there is nothing nicer !!! We have been enjoying them all week.
Cheers,
Beverley
Re: Field Mushrooms April 17, 2008 07:57AM |
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Re: Field Mushrooms April 17, 2008 08:19AM |
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I came home today to find half a dozen beautiful pink mushies sitting across my kitchen bench (they'd been set out by my Husband to "make a statement" I guess) and they got me into drool mode. I sincerely hope this means more to come?
I heard the listener on Radio Live say all you do is put them into a brown paper bag and put them into the freezer - but it somehow went through my mind that I wondered if she meant the fridge as in short term keeping. If she meant the freezer you'd peel them first.
I saute them with a little butter which forms a juice and when they are cooked (which doesn't take long) I cool them in their juice and freeze them plus the juice in meal sized lots. We enjoy them as a vegetable with the juice thickened when they come out of the freezer, because, as Lyn says the flavour is out of this world. To us they are far too precious to add to a casserole where the flavour is lost through the mix and mingle of other flavours.
Regards,
Dawn.
I heard the listener on Radio Live say all you do is put them into a brown paper bag and put them into the freezer - but it somehow went through my mind that I wondered if she meant the fridge as in short term keeping. If she meant the freezer you'd peel them first.
I saute them with a little butter which forms a juice and when they are cooked (which doesn't take long) I cool them in their juice and freeze them plus the juice in meal sized lots. We enjoy them as a vegetable with the juice thickened when they come out of the freezer, because, as Lyn says the flavour is out of this world. To us they are far too precious to add to a casserole where the flavour is lost through the mix and mingle of other flavours.
Regards,
Dawn.
Re: Field Mushrooms April 17, 2008 10:57PM |
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Re: Field Mushrooms April 17, 2008 11:18PM |
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Hello Lorna,
I prefer to know they are cow plop and fertilizer free. Over the years I've picked bucket loads of mushrooms from our farm so I see what they've grown through (i.e. pushed themselves out from under a dryish cow plop), or what's been put over them as they grow (i.e. when the fertilizer trucks have spread the paddocks). Besides, it becomes a ritual after gathering mushrooms for us to sit down together and peel and trim the mushrooms - it's all part of the pleasure of looking forward to the delicious taste of wild mushrooms!
Regards,
Dawn.
Edited to add that I never wash them.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/17/2008 11:19PM by Dawn.
I prefer to know they are cow plop and fertilizer free. Over the years I've picked bucket loads of mushrooms from our farm so I see what they've grown through (i.e. pushed themselves out from under a dryish cow plop), or what's been put over them as they grow (i.e. when the fertilizer trucks have spread the paddocks). Besides, it becomes a ritual after gathering mushrooms for us to sit down together and peel and trim the mushrooms - it's all part of the pleasure of looking forward to the delicious taste of wild mushrooms!
Regards,
Dawn.
Edited to add that I never wash them.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/17/2008 11:19PM by Dawn.
Re: Field Mushrooms April 18, 2008 04:59AM |
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Re: Field Mushrooms April 29, 2008 10:55PM |
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I am freezing loads at the moment also. The button ones can be snap frozen without cooking, the medium ones (ie not the big black ones) can be sliced then just lightly blanched, then frozen, and the big juicy black ones I have found to be best cooked with no butter or oil (as this can alter the taste once they are thawed). I freeze these in freezer bags - flat so I can get more in the freezer - in their own juice. They are delicious thawed and then thicken the sauce. Yummo!
Small tip: It is best to freeze same day as picked
Small tip: It is best to freeze same day as picked
Re: Field Mushrooms May 01, 2008 05:41AM |
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Hey Lyn, you might be surprised what you can find in the inner city, I have had 2 good feeds from Albert Park right in the center of jafaland; what a find.
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Re: Field Mushrooms May 01, 2008 05:55AM |
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