Do it yourself mushrooms at home and in the garden

Growing poplar mushrooms with Spawn Plugs

Spawn plugs are wooden pegs containing a cultivation of mushroom spawn. To grow the mushrooms, freshly cut logs of healthy poplar wood, willow or other deciduous trees are used. The growing technique is very simple, all you need to do is drill holes in each log and insert the spawn plugs using a ...

MUSHROOMS, MORTADELLA AND PROSECCO (dry white wine)

Mushrooms Cut mushroom stems one centimeter below the cap and remove potential soil traces with a brush wash them quickly under running water dry them gently with a towel salt mushrooms soak mushrooms in lemon juice for twenty minutes, then throw it away Mortadella cut a thick slice of Mortadella Modena into 2 cm thick cubes Appetizers secure mushrooms and Mortadella cubes with a toothpick and serve Aperitif Pour ici Prosecco and half a bottle of Bitter Campari ...

The food value of mushrooms

The mushroom is used today in cooking for its taste and delicate flavour and is often considered more a refined touch to a dish than a proper food. Mushrooms have not yet become a food for constant and everyday consumption because of the lack of information on the part of the consumer, who considers it only a complementary food. However the mushroom should be given more importance in cooking, since it has a high food value and is easy to digest. The mushroom is mainly made up of water ...

Giuseppe Lanzi