Musrooms
Mushrooms are the salt of the earth, and we're fortunate to have an extraordinary variety of them in Italy, from heady white truffles (and black ones too) through meaty porcini, and on to delicate chanterelles and other wild mushrooms.
Mushroom Flan -- Sformato Di Funghi
Mushroom Flan, or Sformato Di Funghi: This is from Pellegrino Artusi's La Scienza In Cucina e L'Arte di Mangiar Bene, which I translated as The Art of Eating Well (Random House).
Mushroom Flan, or Sformato Di Funghi: This is from Pellegrino Artusi's La Scienza In Cucina e L'Arte di Mangiar Bene, which I translated as The Art of Eating Well (Random House).
Porcini Canederli -- Canederli ai Funghi Porcini
Porcini Canederli are more of a side dish than an accompaniment to soup; they'll go nicely with a stew or goulash. The recipe will serve 4.
Porcini Canederli are more of a side dish than an accompaniment to soup; they'll go nicely with a stew or goulash. The recipe will serve 4.
Fresh Porcini: What to do with them?
Porcini are Italy's most valued wild mushrooms by far, and when fresh are a great treat: you can grill them, stew them, make sauce with them, and more.
Porcini are Italy's most valued wild mushrooms by far, and when fresh are a great treat: you can grill them, stew them, make sauce with them, and more.
Stewed Beans and Chantarelles -- Fagioli e Finferli in Umido
There are, it seems, an infinite number of ways to cook beans. This one's Tuscan, and if you don't have chantarelles you could use any other not-too-sharp wild mushroom. Cultivated button mushrooms won't do the beans justice.
There are, it seems, an infinite number of ways to cook beans. This one's Tuscan, and if you don't have chantarelles you could use any other not-too-sharp wild mushroom. Cultivated button mushrooms won't do the beans justice.
About Porcini
About purchsing one of the Gifts of the Gods: what to look for and what to avoid.
About purchsing one of the Gifts of the Gods: what to look for and what to avoid.
Fresh Porcini: what to do with them?
Suggestions for preparing your porcini.
Suggestions for preparing your porcini.
Stretching Porcini
How to make regular musrooms seem like porcini.
How to make regular musrooms seem like porcini.
Mushroom Sformato: Sformato Di Funghi
The perfect thing to do with fall mushrooms, especially wild ones.
The perfect thing to do with fall mushrooms, especially wild ones.
Portabello Pizza
You'll need large mushrooms for this -- the caps substitute for the dough.
You'll need large mushrooms for this -- the caps substitute for the dough.
Porcini Mushroom Sformato
"A great starter with a drizzle of olive oil and shavings of parmesan next to a rocket salad..."
"A great starter with a drizzle of olive oil and shavings of parmesan next to a rocket salad..."