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Post by Moose on May 26, 2016 20:06:07 GMT
I really don't like mushrooms very much. These days I can, to be polite, stomach them if they are put in front of me - when I was younger they would have literally made me vomit. But I don't get the point of them and I don't like the flavour. Ironically, I bet I'd absolutely barf if someone made me eat a truffle...
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Post by ProdigalAlan on May 26, 2016 21:28:10 GMT
It's a case of if you like these sort of things, this is the sort of thing you'll really like.
What about "shrooms" did you never enjoy those?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 1:12:50 GMT
I have never been a big fan of them either. The ones I really hate are the small ones from the tin or jar that my parents used to get. Like slugs.
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Post by Moose on May 27, 2016 1:59:40 GMT
No, I've never done shrooms Not my thing - I think it would really, really be bad for my mental state. I'd be interested to know what makes truffles so special though. What DOES make truffles so special?
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Post by ProdigalAlan on May 27, 2016 3:27:37 GMT
One of the main things is that they are one of the only truly black foodstuffs on the planet, as for the taste - very pungent and earthy but nothing I'd write home to Mum about.
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Post by tangent on May 27, 2016 11:39:12 GMT
Mushrooms are a medium for oil. I like fried mushrooms if the oil they're fried in is tasty.
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Post by juju on May 27, 2016 13:48:08 GMT
Never had truffles but I do like mushrooms. I recall I didn't as a child, though.
My eldest son used to call them 'slobs' when he was a toddler - when we had pizza he'd ask me to 'take all the slobs off'. He does like them now, so maybe it's the sliminess that kids don't like?
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Post by Mari on May 27, 2016 18:27:09 GMT
I don't mind the taste, but the texture! Ugh! >_<
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Post by Moose on May 28, 2016 0:30:29 GMT
Yeah I don't care for the texture either. I can eat them fried but then, let's be honest, anything fried tastes reasonably decent .
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Post by whollygoats on May 28, 2016 15:38:30 GMT
I think it is an acquired taste. I remember being repelled by mushrooms on pizza. Now I expect sliced mushrooms to be there.
I think back then, as a pre-adolescent, it was the texture. Then, I found out about sauteing with onions and garlic and other herbs to taste. The mushroom serves as a flavor sop.
If saute in in play, I'll be there with my tin cup and entrenching tool, clattering on the bars.
Button mushrooms are the standard. Swimmer occasionally makes 'pesto steaks' with Portobello (large) mushrooms with pesto, nuts, tomato, mozzarella, and topped with asiago. The mushroom is basically a sauted trencher for all the other goodies.
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Post by Moose on May 28, 2016 18:25:24 GMT
my mum makes stuffed mushrooms at Christmas usually. I've not tried one cos I don't fancy it but yeah, it's large mushrooms, cheese and .. various other bits. Don't think she uses nuts
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Post by spaceflower on May 29, 2016 13:07:09 GMT
Ah, chanterelle is a delicacy! Other people find them in the forest but I never do. I have to buy them. I only see unknown mushrooms which might be poisonous. The only ones I recognize are Boletales. They can be good but often little worms like them too and are on the mushrooms.
There are also dried Chinese mushrooms, we call them "tree ears". They are perfect in casseroles.
In the summer I sometimes find lawyer's wigs in the grass which I take home and fry a bit and then eat on crisp bread. I don't find many enought to put i a casserole, and they must be eaten at once.
But I have never tasted truffles.
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Post by Miisa on May 30, 2016 10:03:45 GMT
As a child I thought mushrooms were disgusting. Then I didn't have them for ages. A few years ago started to try and like them on pizza and in sauces, and now I have even cooked with them (only regular ones, never had anything fancy). Such as in little pieces with tomato in scrambled eggs.
Never tried real truffles.
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Post by raspberrybullets on May 30, 2016 12:54:24 GMT
With mushrooms I find it's all about how they're cooked or what food they are in. I've always loved them on pizza because they get dried up and have a great flavour. But soups and stews I'm not a fan because they tend to be slimey. I do like the flavour they impart though. I like them sauteed with onion and garlic like WG too.
I've had truffle shaved on risotto and pasta in Italy when we were there during truffle season, and I thought it was delicious. A very earthy, yet pungent sort of flavour. I also quite like truffle oil for that reason.
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Post by Moose on Jun 2, 2016 1:52:14 GMT
I think of ordinary mushrooms as tasting 'earthy'. I'd be interested to try truffles just to see how different they were, though I don't believe that anything is really worth the money that they cost ... same thing goes for caviar.
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Post by juju on Jun 2, 2016 8:54:13 GMT
Hmmm. I often wonder what people mean by 'earthy' and whether it's the same as what I mean. I think river fish (trout, salmon) taste 'earthy' because to me they literally taste of river water, i.e mud. Beetroot tastes 'earthy' for the same reason. Bleh. Yet things other people say are earthy I don't get. And I like mushrooms.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 2, 2016 13:56:12 GMT
It's a case of if you like these sort of things, this is the sort of thing you'll really like. What about "shrooms" did you never enjoy those? Yeah. Once. I subsequently spent the better part of that afternoon, sitting at a campfire in the temperate rain forest, whittling on a limb.
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