Do it yourself mushrooms at home and in the garden

Growing Oyster mushroom with Spawn Plugs

Spawn plugs are wooden pegs containing a cultivation of mushroom spawn. To grow the mushrooms, freshly cut logs of healthy poplar wood, willow or other deciduous trees are used. The growing technique is very simple, all you need to do is drill holes in each log and insert the spawn plugs using a ...

MUSHROOM AND ROSEMARY PUMPKIN BUTTERFLIES

Peel the pumpkin: take off its seeds and cut it into small cubes. Clean the mushrooms with a towel or a wet sponge, in order to remove potential soil traces. Cut them into thin slices. Let the sliced leek brown inside a pot with butter. Add the pumpkin, drizzle with some white wine, let it partially boil off and pour 2 hot water ladles in. Let it cook for about 30 minutes, until the liquid is boiled off and the pumpkin is tender. If necessary pour some other hot water, add the mushrooms ...

The food value of mushrooms

The mushroom is used today in cooking for its taste and delicate flavour and is often considered more a refined touch to a dish than a proper food. Mushrooms have not yet become a food for constant and everyday consumption because of the lack of information on the part of the consumer, who considers it only a complementary food. However the mushroom should be given more importance in cooking, since it has a high food value and is easy to digest. The mushroom is mainly made up of water ...

Giuseppe Lanzi