Oct-20-2010, 05:13 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Oct-20-2010, 05:28 PM (UTC) by Nuytsia.)
Atthis if the Australian mushroom industry is brought to its knees by an imported pathogen we'll know who to blame!
Hehehe!!!!
I guess they allow commercial products because there is some laws governing how they are prepared, but if I just put something in a bag who knows what I did? Well that's the theory, don't ask me how it works out in practice!
Hey edible wild mushrooms is another thing I've been wanting to find out more about! I'm sure there's ones you can eat that do grow here? I found this one growing in my property, it looks like SOME sort of bolete?
[Image: 2917_1143067777444_1249962217_372221_4695446_n.jpg]
But as far as I can tell not one you can eat.....
Have you ever tried to grow the porcini mushrooms from spores in the dried ones sent over? (or are they killed by the oven?) I wonder why they don't grow here....
Re the sourdough starter, I am still pretty new to the whole thing, and the recipe I found is basically making Rye Sourdough from scratch - ie just from rye flour and water and some honey. It takes about 3 days I think? (I'll find instructions and post). It seems to work fine, and I have kept a bit of the dough in the fridge for subsequent use but to be honest it seems to work almost as well just starting from scratch. So sometimes I have a 'starter' in the fridge and sometimes I don't! Still experimenting.
Re soup, well I just made ...... split pea soup!!!!
To me it was good, not boring at all! I don't normally eat it ...... I just got this recipe book all about miso recipes and the split pea soup was one. It's a good book because the recipes are mostly vegan, and I normally can't cook that type of thing very well!! But these turn out really yummy!
I am not sure that Australia has anything that would qualify as the national soup! Hmmmmmm probably tomato ? I really don't like it! I used to have canned soup but I've gone right off it and now I won't eat (drink?) it!
I like creamy soups like pumpkin, but I'm too darn lazy to get out the food processor to blend it up. I really must get one of those 'wizz' things that you just stick in the soup pot and blend it.
Hehehe CHOW-DA!
Oh forgot to say, I found a book on Finnish cooking on the library website! I'm going to borrow it and hope it has something about bread...... I think I better learn a bit more about how to make it before I ask for bread starter donations!
I was looking on the web to see if there IS anywhere to buy Finnish bread in Australia and I found an interview with someone in the Australian Symphony Orchestra who is from Finland and he said the closest thing he could get here was Swedish Rye Bread at Ikea!!!!!!!!
Hehehe!!!!
I guess they allow commercial products because there is some laws governing how they are prepared, but if I just put something in a bag who knows what I did? Well that's the theory, don't ask me how it works out in practice!
Hey edible wild mushrooms is another thing I've been wanting to find out more about! I'm sure there's ones you can eat that do grow here? I found this one growing in my property, it looks like SOME sort of bolete?
[Image: 2917_1143067777444_1249962217_372221_4695446_n.jpg]
But as far as I can tell not one you can eat.....
Have you ever tried to grow the porcini mushrooms from spores in the dried ones sent over? (or are they killed by the oven?) I wonder why they don't grow here....
Re the sourdough starter, I am still pretty new to the whole thing, and the recipe I found is basically making Rye Sourdough from scratch - ie just from rye flour and water and some honey. It takes about 3 days I think? (I'll find instructions and post). It seems to work fine, and I have kept a bit of the dough in the fridge for subsequent use but to be honest it seems to work almost as well just starting from scratch. So sometimes I have a 'starter' in the fridge and sometimes I don't! Still experimenting.
Re soup, well I just made ...... split pea soup!!!!
To me it was good, not boring at all! I don't normally eat it ...... I just got this recipe book all about miso recipes and the split pea soup was one. It's a good book because the recipes are mostly vegan, and I normally can't cook that type of thing very well!! But these turn out really yummy!
I am not sure that Australia has anything that would qualify as the national soup! Hmmmmmm probably tomato ? I really don't like it! I used to have canned soup but I've gone right off it and now I won't eat (drink?) it!
I like creamy soups like pumpkin, but I'm too darn lazy to get out the food processor to blend it up. I really must get one of those 'wizz' things that you just stick in the soup pot and blend it.
Hehehe CHOW-DA!
Oh forgot to say, I found a book on Finnish cooking on the library website! I'm going to borrow it and hope it has something about bread...... I think I better learn a bit more about how to make it before I ask for bread starter donations!
I was looking on the web to see if there IS anywhere to buy Finnish bread in Australia and I found an interview with someone in the Australian Symphony Orchestra who is from Finland and he said the closest thing he could get here was Swedish Rye Bread at Ikea!!!!!!!!
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