English Peas, Spring Onions and Roasted Almonds

Just cooked English peas, sautéd spring onions and roasted, salted almonds are a delicious combination of tender sweet, sweet pungent, and crunchy just salty. You can set this side dish next to grilled fish or chicken or mashed potatoes and a roast. It's...

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Grilled Portobello Salad

Autumn into early winter is a great time to find fresh savory salad greens.

Arugula is still in the market now and mustard, mizuna, and cress are easily found from late autumn to early spring.

Cultivated mushrooms, such as the portobello, are easy to find year round, but their peak natural season is fall and winter.

So here is a very seasonal portobello and savory green salad. This salad matches grilled portobellos with winter greens, your favorite vinaigrette dressing and a light sprinkling of goat cheese.

This is a great recipe to keep in reserve should you find yourself a bit long on grilled portobellos one day.

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Oyster Mushroom Sautéed in Garlic

The oyster mushroom gets its name from its cap which, some say, resembles an oyster. The stem of the oyster mushrooms is perhaps more distinct; it unfurls something like one of those old-time paper lady’s fans.

The oyster mushroom has been cultivated in Asia for centuries. Today it is very popular in Japanese and Chinese cooking; it is usually stuffed or stir-fried.

The flavor of the oyster mushroom is somewhere between anise and oyster. The flavor mellows with cooking. Young oyster mushrooms, say 1½ inches in diameter or less, are considered the best eating.

Here is a delicious preparation for sautéed oyster mushrooms that takes less than 5 minutes including preparation time. You will find this a mild but flavorful meal or side dish. If you can't find oyster mushrooms, choose another medium cap mushroom.

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Cultivated Mushroom Varieties

When it comes to cookery, the term mushroom refers generally to cultivated mushrooms.

Almost all of the mushrooms that you will take home from the market for use in the kitchen have been cultivated indoors under controlled conditions. The mushroom is a fungus and to keep the strain pure, mushroom growers work hard to keep all other fungi and bacteria out of the growing area.

The common white button mushroom has been in cultivation for hundreds of years. The first cultivated mushrooms were grown by the ancient Greeks and Romans. The commercial cultivation of mushrooms began in France during the rule of King Louis XIV in the seventeenth century.

Talk to your local mushroom grower to get the pedigree of mushroom varieties you are interested in. You will probably be able to find locally grown shiitake mushrooms that in years past grew only on logs in Japanese forests and truffles that once grew only under the roots of young oak trees in France.

There are more than 35,000 varieties of mushrooms, but only a few hundred of those are in general cultivation. Here are some of the best known culinary mushrooms with their botanical names in parentheses:

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Mushrooms

Mushrooms have a delicious woodsy flavor and are easy to prepare.

You can enjoy mushrooms alone or with other ingredients. Use mushrooms in appetizers, salads, dips, soups, sauces, omelets, stews, pizzas and pastas, or match them with meat, poultry, fish, and shellfish. Mushrooms can be sautéed, broiled, grilled, steamed, or stir-fried.

The best mushrooms are mushrooms eaten fresh before their flavor is lost.

There are more than 35,000 species of mushrooms. Most of them are not edible, and some of them are poisonous. Unless you are a mushroom expert, choose cultivated mushrooms. There are dozens of cultivated mushrooms to choose from with many different flavors and textures.

Simmer fresh mushrooms in red wine and tomatoes with parsley and serve as a main dish, or put a fat protobello mushroom on the grill and serve it just like a burger.

Stuff mushrooms caps with herbed breadcrumbs or chopped vegetables or risotto and broil them, or sauté mushrooms lightly with chopped shallots and parsley and a little thyme and serve them as a side dish.

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