If the Japanese mushrooms are difficult to find, feel free to substitute them with any
other mushroom variety.
Everything about this dish was so memorable, the taste of the beautiful sauce, the texture of the
different mushroom varieties, the amazing crunch that came from the nuts.
Most commonly, the word «crimini» is used to designate a subgroup of the button mushrooms, and it refers to
button mushroom varieties that are somewhat smaller than most white button mushrooms; more light brown / coffee / cocoa in color; and somewhat firmer as well.
As the world's most widely
enjoyed mushroom varieties, button mushrooms (including crimini) make what can only be described as an outstanding contribution to human nourishment and health.
Such woodlands are increasingly rare because of logging and development, and Stamets worries that potentially
beneficial mushroom varieties, some of them not yet recognized, are being lost in the process.
Just the other day, I got a carton full of gourmet mushrooms from a Japanese company thats now cultivating three
wild mushroom varieties at its new, fully organic facility in San Marcos, California.
Recently, I stepped up the spice level, following Jamie Oliver's spice combination and making mine «veganized» (of course) with two bean and two
mushroom varieties!