Shiitake Mushroom Duxelles

by | Jul 31, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes

We have been growing our own shiitake mushrooms at the edge of our woods for about the last ten years.  While it’s fun to walk outside and harvest them, you do have to pay attention to the weather or you can miss some good eating. The shiitakes fruit best when temperatures are between the fifties to the seventies.  They don’t do much in really hot weather.  But that doesn’t mean they can’t sneak up on you.  If you get a day or two of rain...

Shiitake Mushrooms – A Missed Opportunity

by | Aug 5, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening

  I missed one of the largest flushes of mushrooms I’ve ever had by three or four days.  I didn’t  even think to be checking for them in our summer heat and it was just chance that I looked  over in the woods, today, to find these.  They are on three year old logs, which is all the more surprising. We’ll see if we can dry a lot of them.  I think we can, but many are spent and black.  Too bad, the fresh shiitake are one our favorite crops....

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