Monday, August 06, 2012

start of the season mushroom feast

Fall mushrooming is upon us.  From the woods you can hear me cooing "hello beautiful, oh hello lovely" each time I place a mushroom in my basket.  I love this time of year.

Yesterday's haul consisted of just a few black trumpets, a few chanterelles, and a few lobster mushrooms.  I did find a few more past-prime lobsters which are heading to the dye pot to create more of that pretty pink.  The rest headed to my belly.

I wasn't in the mood for pasta, and I thought it would be rude to stand with the fry pan in my hand eating them all myself (though tempting) so I made a quick tart of sorts.  I had a puff pastry sheet in the fridge so I rolled it out and baked it, then covered it with cheese and my mushrooms and onions that I had sautee'd in butter and garlic.  I sprinkled it with Maldon salt (a gift from Julie) and oh... so good.

A good start-of-the-season feast.

I hope the rest of my week starts off as well.  And yours too.
Happy Monday!

5 comments:

Emma said...

Yum! Beautiful mushrooms.

Margie Oomen said...

that looks delicious
kind of wish we had moisture to grow us some mushrooms in those woods
but then again
i am really enjoying the sunshine

joanie said...

Looks so yummy! If you run out of Maldon salt I could easily pop more over to you. Just wish you could do the same with the mushrooms, or better yet, the tart ;)
Jx

The 3 Foragers said...

Early August=autumn? Not for us, yet, waiting for back-to-school and cooler nights for our mushroom hauls of trumpets and maitakes. Congrats!

julochka said...

i'm glad you're enjoying the salt! i can always send you more, so don't hoard it! :-)

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