I love mushrooms

[Syrinx]

I mean the regular food kind. Anyone have some good stuffed-mushroom recipes?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. I'll stuff damn near anything in a mushroom. Like pesto?

I make mushrooms stuffed with pesto, cream cheese and bleu cheese.

YOu can either buy an already made pesto in the store and mix it with cream cheese and bleu cheese and stuff into the mushrooms and bake them in a greased pan for about 30 minutes at 325..or you can make the pesto

add some spinach to that instead of the pesto and you've got Rockerfeller.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Shitake Mushrooms can be used in dozens of ways, yummy

[Syrinx]

4. What's the base of pesto again?

I can never remember that.

[lazarus]

7. pesto

is basically pine nuts, fresh basil, garlic, and olive oil. Yummie. Don't buy it premade, it's easy to make. Here's how I do it, stolen from Mario Batali:

3 tablespoons pine nuts
2 cups fresh basil leaves, preferably "picolo fino"
1 clove garlic, peeled
1 pinch sea salt (or kosher salt. Please tell me you don't have table salt in your home. Ick.)
5 ounces Ligurian extra-virgin olive oil (I just use really good evoo)


In my molca jete (big stone mortar), grind the pine nuts, basil, garlic, and salt with a pestle until it forms a paste. Drizzle in the olive oil, beating the mixture with a wooden spoon.

You can use a food processor if you don't have a big stone mortar and pestle, but they're so much fun!

It's very very good.

[Syrinx]

8. cool!

I'm hungry!

[Rocinante]

2. Don't fake me out again

I thought you meant good 'shrooms. Just kidding. R

[Syrinx]

5. I never did 'shrooms

I got dosed with acid once, and that was interesting.

What if we made a pepperoni and hallucionginic (sp?) mushroom pizza?

[Rocinante]

6. It will work my friend

it does work. Just kidding.

[FireHeart]

9. My favorite...

Difficult to make because you need some really large buttons to make them come out right. They are what I call "Pizza stuffed shrooms".

Take some ground Italian sausage, brown it until it's DONE.
stuff the mushrooms with the sausage
cover with a thin layer of pasta sauce or a good quality pizza sauce.
add a layer of mozzarella cheese.
bake until cheese is melted.

Very tasty :)

you can use either mild or hot sausage. I prefer mild.

[emad]

10. You obviously have never heard of Shirley Conran:

'life's too short to stuff a mushroom'.............

a few years later she sued her restaurateur husband terence conran for 8 million pounds - roughly 12 and a half% of his declared assets (same rate as the service charge in uk eateries).....

[WillParkinson]

11. MMMMMMMMMMMMUSHROOMS!

Mushrooms are a necessary part of almost every food except for maybe breakfast cereal but I can't say for sure cuz I haven't tried them in that.

[lazarus]

12. I like inokis

Have you tried those? Grill 'em for a couple of minutes, yum.

[Throckmorton]

13. So does this guy, and it got him arrested,

and not for the reason you may think. This happened in my home town of Litchfield, CT.

http://www.nbc30.com/news/2504878/detail.html

I know exactly where he was at the time, and the woods there are riddled with public walking trails.

[Skittles]

14. WAS THAT YOU IN THE COW PASTURE THE OTHER DAY?

I'LL KICK YOUR ASS IF I SEE YOU AGAIN.