Manure Enough
As far as I am concerned if a blog cannot sustain the occasional mushroom, it needs more manure.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it (so long as it does not stick to me). Mostly because I had to go out yesterday evening, had forgotten a staff Christmas party that needed attending, and left myself with insufficient time to prepare a post. I can’t believe it is December already, can you?
Typical of funghi these were just lying around on my hard drive so I volunteered them for this post. They were part of a large bag of mushrooms we bought at the last of this season’s regular Moss Street Markets a few weeks ago. I am pretty sure they are oyster mushrooms, grown on Saltspring Island. The came from one of my favourite stalls at the market featuring only mushrooms of various delicate varieties. Clearly a stall with enough manure.
They were delicious, fried in butter till the edges were crispy golden brown. I can’t remember what I served them with, but it was one of the more elaborate Sunday dinners of late – perhaps it was pan-fried fresh halibut now that I think of it, not so elaborate. The Moss Street holiday market is next weekend, and I will be there. The cutting board these mushrooms are sitting on came from last year’s holiday market (I think, it was a gift and I have seen ones much like it there).
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 50mm f1.4, ISO200, f2.2, 1/60th.
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burnt embers 
What’s that smell around here? Oh yeh, it’s butter and mushrooms cookin’ away!! GREAT shot, Ehpem, I love the detailed textures you pulled out of this really fun guy to be around!!!
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Yup, fried mushrooms. I have a real liking for them, especially the more delicate varieties like chanterelles, or inky caps, or shitaki.
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LoL – thanks for the laugh and the reminder not to overlook the every-day! Cheers!
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Thanks Lee! Nice to have you dropping by again.
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Continuing with Patrick’s comment, they reminded me of an old baseball catchers mitt! We are not too fond of these critters on our plate…but you did make it sound yummy! 😀
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Ha! Well, viewing them as critters would indeed make them unappetizing, like fried mice, or roaches in batter. Mind you, a baseball mitt is not really edible either. Or boxing gloves.
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Yes, oyster mushrooms. Great tones and textures, ehpem!
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Thanks Ray for the confirmation. I bought three kinds that day including also shitake and some other kind I now forget. So, I was vague about which these were.
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You did well (photographically and gastronomically) that day! 😉
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It’s December?!
your mushrooms sounds delicious, Ephem.
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Sad but true – December. Soon enough it will be spring. And we can’t really complain here, there are still various flowers out in the garden,and in three weeks we will have snowdrops.
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Now I’m hungry and I just finished breakfast. We can not cook fish of any kind in the house as it sets off an alarm in Emo’s head and he feels required to help with the preparations, so I generally cook fish on the grill outside. However, he does keep a watchful eye on the grill from his window seat to make sure no one messes with his fish.
We both like the photo. It has a sort of luminous quality about it that’s very nice.
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I have noticed that cats are not very good at helping with cooking – too much tasting along the way. And dragging across the floor. They tend to dislike mushrooms, even with fish, though butter is another matter entirely.
It was the texture of the mushrooms that led me to photograph them – and it is kind of a luminous texture, if that makes sense.
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They look like so many boxing gloves in this treatment.
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Hi Patrick. I can see that, though if these mushrooms had been typical boxing glove colours (a) I would have presented them in colour and (b) would not eat them.
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