Growing Mushroom » Mushroom http://www.mushroomgrowers.org Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:22:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How to Find the Proper Temperature For Your Mushroom House Or Cellar http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/how-to-find-the-proper-temperature-for-your-mushroom-house-or-cellar http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/how-to-find-the-proper-temperature-for-your-mushroom-house-or-cellar#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:09:17 +0000 Admin http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/how-to-find-the-proper-temperature-for-your-mushroom-house-or-cellar


The best temperature at which to keep the mushroom house or cellar is 55

]]> http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/how-to-find-the-proper-temperature-for-your-mushroom-house-or-cellar/feed 0 A Hearty Mushroom Polenta Grill http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-hearty-mushroom-polenta-grill http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-hearty-mushroom-polenta-grill#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:17:58 +0000 Admin http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-hearty-mushroom-polenta-grill


This is a delicious recipe for a Mushroom Polenta Grill. It is a nice substantial vegetarian dish and will serve 4 People in total. If you are a committed carnivore please don’t feel left out, why not give this recipe a try!

Ingredients

9 oz block ready-made Polenta

4 Large Portobello Mushrooms

2 1/4 oz butter

1 Garlic Clove, crushed

1 tbsp chopped fresh Parsley

1 tbsp snipped fresh Chives

4 very fresh Eggs

3 1/2 oz baby spinach leaves

Salt and Pepper

Parmesan cheese shavings

Method

1. Pre-heat your grill to high.

2. Cut the Polenta into 8 slices and arrange them on a foil lined grill rack with the Mushrooms.

3. Melt the butter in a small pan with the crushed Garlic. Stir in the Parsley and the Chives.

4. Brush the Mushrooms and Polenta with the herb butter and season to taste with Salt and Pepper.

5. Cook under the pre-heated grill for 6 – 8 minutes, turning once, until the Polenta is golden brown and the Mushrooms are tender.

6. Bring a pan of water up to just under boiling point. Break the Eggs carefully into the water when it is hot enough to poach them.

7. Poach the Eggs for around 3 minutes, until they are just set and then gently lift them out with a slotted spoon.

8. Place two slices of Polenta on each plate and place some of the spinach leaves on top.

9. Place a Mushroom on top of the Spinach leaves, then top with a poached egg and spoon over any remaining herb butter.

10. Sprinkle with Parmesan shavings and garnish with Chives.

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do.

By: Susan Christopher

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This is a wonderful recipe for Mushroom & Cauliflower Cheese Crumble. This recipe serves 4 people and is ideal for a cold winters day. It’s a fresh version of the traditional Cauliflower Cheese recipe and I hope you enjoy it. Are you hungry? Great let’s get cooking.

The Ingredients

1 whole Cauliflower cut into florets

2 oz Butter

4 oz Button Mushrooms, sliced

Salt and Pepper

For The Topping

4 oz dry Breadcrumbs

2 tbsp grated Parmesan Cheese

1 tsp dried Oregano

1 tsp dried Parsley

1 oz Butter

The Method

1. Bring a large saucepan of lightly salted water to the boil.

2. Add the Cauliflower and cook for 3 minutes

3. Remove the pan from the heat, drain the Cauliflower and transfer it to a shallow oven-proof dish.

4. Pre-heat your oven to 230C/450F/Gas Mark 8.

5. Melt the butter into a small frying pan over a medium heat and add the sliced Mushrooms. Stir and cook gently for around 3 minutes.

6. Remove the pan from the heat and spoon the Mushrooms on top of the Cauliflower. Season to taste with Salt and Pepper.

7. Combine the Breadcrumbs, Parmesan and herbs into a small mixing bowl and then sprinkle the mixture over the Cauliflower mixture in the oven-proof dish.

8. Dice up the butter and dot it all over the Bread-crumb topping.

9. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 15 minutes or until the topping is golden brown.

Serve this delicious Cauliflower Cheese Crumble at the table straight from the cooking dish. On a cold winters day this will really warm you up again. Sometimes I make it in the morning and leave it in the dish so that when I come in from work I can just pre-heat the oven and then put it in when we are ready for it. Delicious.

By: Susan Christopher

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Although the amount of information in this book is very impressive, is limited to a few species, and provide the necessary parameters for the growth of fungi select few, especially those belonging to Agaricus, Pleurotus, Psilocybe / Panaeolus and Stropharia. Like many topics in this book more suitable for small mushroom farm, the book is anything but practical for home cultivation. This book contains a pretty good run-down on non-agricultural use compost substrate, but can be extended to more substrates, formation of further strategies, and fungal species that grow better in the non-composted substrate comprehensive. The authors end the book with a chapter that briefly describes the basic principles of genetics and reproduction of fungi. Finally, this book also contains an extensive glossary of key terms and easily understood, detailed bibliography and an extensive index. Finally, better image quality, especially in color and high resolution will add significant value to this book. To make full use of the techniques and methods in this book, prospective farmers must invest time and money. People who want a hobby mushrooms that grow, the first Hadeler Hajo’s drug Mushrooms read you can grow, and Paul Stamet’s Gourmet mushrooms and medicine to begin.

Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home

]]> http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/mushroom-cultivator/feed 0 Research Suggests That Maitake Mushroom Can Boost the Immune System and More http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/research-suggests-that-maitake-mushroom-can-boost-the-immune-system-and-more http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/research-suggests-that-maitake-mushroom-can-boost-the-immune-system-and-more#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:50:30 +0000 Admin http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/?p=35 Maitake also can be found thriving in northeastern Japan and parts of Europe. Also called dancing mushroom because of people dancing for joy when they found the maitake mushroom, one legend explains that the name refers to the fact that maitake overlaps other forms of fungi and has the appearance of butterfly wings flapping in a dance.

Before 1979 maitake could only be found in the wild. Beta D-glucan is the powerful polysaccharide that is found in maitake, a compound that helps to stimulate the immune response.

Studies have found that maitake mushroom has the ability to reduce blood pressure in laboratory experiments that took place on animals. Maitake may also be able to help lower blood cholesterol levels, which is a major factor in fighting and preventing heart disease. Demonstrating a hepato-protective effect, maitake works against toxins and potential liver damage. Each patient was give maitake extract, with the results showing that 72 percent recovered while only 57 percent of the group the used traditional therapy recovered.

As cancer continues to be leading cause of death in the western world, Human studies are beginning to find that D-fraction polysaccharides in maitake mushroom can help to treat various types of cancer.

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