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 PIZZA

Wash the mushrooms and dry them with a towel, then cut them into thin slices. Put them into a nonstick pan with margarine, salt, pepper, and let them simmer for about 20 minutes. Roll out the pizza dough and put it in a baking pan. Sprinkle some Emmenthal over the mushrooms and put them on the pizza dough. Roll out the surface and let it bake in a hot oven for half an hour.

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