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We went grocery shopping earlier and bought a box of mushrooms. Then called in at the market, where they were selling huge punnets of mushrooms really cheap. So we bought one. We now have an excess of mushrooms taking over the kitchen.

The market ones will need eating or freezing soon, so does anyone have any good mushroom recipes to share?

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Saute the mushrooms in butter and garlic. Add huge handfuls of fresh spinach (which will cook down to nothing). Add fresh diced tomatoes and spices and put over noodles. YUM!

pierson posted this Mushroom and Potato Chowder recipe (http://pierson.livejournal.com/155540.html) a couple of years ago. I've made it several times and it's absolutely awesome! Very tasty and it's easy to change if you happen to not have the exact ingredients handy.

Fried mushrooms are excellent

OOoooh! Must tell you about this one--it's a little labor intensive, lots of chopping, but you got a kid learning to cook, so it's perfect. *g* And it's rich and heart-breakingly delicious, yet vegetarian, and pretty healthy all around. Reheats well, too. (she says, setting expectations that are impossible to meet, heh)

Sadly, this is all in USian measurements--sorry! Maybe you can make researching the conversions a learning experience for the boy?

Mushroom Stew

5 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 bay leaves
2 cloves garlic, chopped finely
1 large yellow onion, cut pretty small
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup broth (if you want to keep it veggie, than veggie, otherwise beef or chicken are fine)
1 cup V-8 or the equivalent (tomato-vegetable juice)
2 cups peeled, quartered tomatoes (or a large can of same, though it tastes better with fresh of course. however, I am lazy)
1 teaspoon thyme
1 1/2 pounds mushrooms, cut in quarters or other large pieces, to be more fun in the eating (and honestly? I usually use 2 pounds--I like mushrooms)
1 pound little bitty boiling onions, peeled and the ends cut off, but otherwise whole (if you can't find boiling onions, I'm sure white onions cut in bigger quarters would be fine--or shallots, if you're feeling wealthy this week)
Optional: I usually add asparagus if it's in season and cheap, because yum! But only in season--it's crazy expensive out of season. So if you have a favorite veg, you could add that.

Chop everything first
Melt together in a medium-sized pan: 2 tablespoons of the butter, olive oil
Saute in the above: garlic, yellow onion, bay leaves
Stir in the flour to make a roux, and stir the roux while it cooks on medium for four or five minutes--just to bubble and brown a little, not to scorch
Add: broth and tomato juice
Stir and add: tomatoes
In separate pan, the bigger the better (this is the pan it all ends up in), add: 3 tablespoons of butter, the thyme and the mushrooms
Saute: mushrooms covered til they have shrunk and released their liquid, and there's all kinds of yummy broth in there.
Add the boiling onions and the sauce you made above.
Stew for about 20 minutes
Add veggies, salt and pepper to taste.

Yum! I would love to give credit to the cookbook I got it from, but I got it at the library 20 years ago, and I have no clue anymore. *g*

Here's a recipe for you Chicken & Mushroom Soup (http://community.livejournal.com/cook_it/37855.html) It's very tasty, makes lots and is pretty easy.

fry with garlic, then add some cream and serve on toast. decadent AND DELICIOUS.

Garlic mushrooms
Peel mushrooms and remove stalks.
Chop or crush loads of garlic.
Put garlic and big lumps of butter into a large cup and nuke until butter has melted.
Pour a little garlic butter into an oven dish.
Arrange the mushrooms in the dish, hollow side up. Slide them around to get 'em greasy.
Drizzle remaining butter across the top and then put them in the oven on a really high heat. Take them out before the garlic bits go brown. About twenty five minutes, depending on your oven.
If mushies are big, add chopped feta cheese to each one. Herbs are good, too.

I happen to love mushrooms in my omelettes. Delicious!

you want me to type up my recipe for Mushroom risotto? Should work well with the frozen mushrooms, and it's eally creamy and decadant tasting without having any actual cream in it.

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