Soaking in salt water makes the bugs come out of the ridges of the mushroom before cooking. Jen They’re really gorgeous! Jo Beautiful pictures! When I used to live at an old house, every spring the lawn would have a fairy ring of small white mushrooms. They were as delicate as lace...
Depending on when you have planted the mushroom spawn in compost, almond agaricus will fruit between midsummer and early fall, producing new flushes of mushrooms every 2-3 weeks in a single season. The initial flush of growth will produce the largest mushrooms before sending out smaller mushrooms...
Yup. I am not a fan of birthday cake. I am, however, a huge fan of pie. So every year, I make myself a Strawberry Rhubarb Birthday Pie. This is my favorite pie, and was the subject of one of my early blog posts which you can read here. So enjoy your cake, pie or ...
The immune system is activated multifactorially by many components in mushrooms.Beta-glucans are just one variable. There are a variety of other bioactive compounds; many of which work cooperatively to optimize multiple aspects of health and wellness. The efficacy of a multi-constituent approach has...
psychotropic (like psilocybin in psychedelic mushrooms), painkilling (morphine, codeine), antimalarial (quinine), or stimulating (hooray for caffeine!). So alkaloids, as a group, have many uses. But since they can be so dangerous, we’ve evolved to quickly and easily detect (and spit out) ...
If you want to find the real secret of this stuff, look for the rules, the dos and don’ts, the Guides To Being A Better Ally that blob up everywhere like mushrooms on a rotting bough. You’ve seen them. And you’ve noticed, even if you don’t want to admit it, that these thi...
Without love in the dream, it will never come true. ~Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ~John Lennon Oh, I hope that I see you again ~ I never even caught your name ~ As you looked through my window pane ~ So I'm wr...
Our journey ended at Kenoza Hall, a converted early-20th-century inn with a grand lawn sweeping down to a lake. We sat by the water in Adirondack chairs and read; in the morning, Caleb took out one of the hotel's kayaks to explore. After a classically French dinner on the terrace, ...