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OH has come home from work tonight with a massive great bit giant puffball that he found in a field near work. Have eaten a bit of it in a pasta sauce and will be making soup, pate and lasagne after I've been to the shops tomorrow to get a few more ingredients but does anybody have any other recipes which they'd recomend for this type of mushroom.
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Nope - but he's a funny looking chap isn't he!!Tx -
He wanted to photoshop eyes, nose and mouth onto it so that he could do full elephant man impressions but I wouldn't let himOriginally posted by tootles View Post
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
Which one are you and is it how you want to be?Comment
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Slice thinly and saute in butter, then drape with unsmoked fried bacon rashers, top it with free range poached egg, tomatoes from the greenhouse and very thinly sliced raw onion. Sprinkle lightly with cinnamon and invite me round for breakfast to eat it 'cos just the thought of it is making me feel hungry
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Hugh's Puffball Fritters
Hugh's Puffball Fritters
4 slices pancetta, or streaky bacon
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
4 large slices from a puffball, about 1cm/˝in thick
2 eggs, beaten and seasoned with salt and pepper
100g/3˝oz white breadcrumbs (from a day old loaf)
4 whole eggs
salt and freshly ground black pepper
olive oil for frying
a few salad leaves, lightly dressed
1. Chop the bacon or pancetta into thick matchsticks and fry in a little olive oil until crispy. Throw in the chopped garlic and fry until it starts to take colour. Remove the garlicky pancetta and put on kitchen paper.
2. Bring the four whole eggs to the boil in a small pan of cold water and boil them for just 4 minutes to get soft-boiled eggs.
3. Dip the puffball slices in the beaten egg, then coat well in the breadcrumbs. Fry in the same oil left from frying the pancetta (with perhaps a little extra added), turning once until crispy and golden brown.
4. Drain each slice quickly on kitchen paper, then place on warmed plates. Peel the soft boiled eggs carefully and cut them in half. Place two halves, yolk upwards, on each fritter and season well with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Sprinkle over the garlicky bits of pancetta.
5. Serve with a few dressed salad leaves on the side.
BBC - Food - Recipes - Puffball fritters with soft-boiled eggs and baconAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Fantastic......you are so lucky!
Wish I could find one!Comment
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Corrr!! I used to get these growing in my fields, before I became domesticated. Of course, now that I WANT to find one, they're nowhere to be seen!Comment
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You can use slices of puffball, grilled or fried, to put fried eggs on, just as you might use toast or fried bread (but with the added bonus of a mushroomy flavour). Great for anyone on Atkin's diet as there is no carbohydrate<g>
You might like to try herby fritters. I invented them to use parasol mushrooms which grew prolifically (but only for about 3 weeks a year) where I used to live. I never measured the proportion of eggs and milk to flour, but the batter should be rather thicker than for pancakes (maybe half the milk to the same other ingredients), and add a generous teaspoon of dried mixed herbs for every egg. Dip chunks or slices of mushroom (about ˝ inch thick if cutting slices of puffball) in the batter and deep fry until the batter is crispy and golden.Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.Comment
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Thanks folks. Made the following:
Mushroom lasange
Mushroom pate
Fried slices of mushrooms cooked in basil infused oil
Mushroom soup (now frozen for future use)
and some when in a couple of pasta dishes / simply fried and served as side dishes.
Hopefully he'll find another but maybe I'd prefer it if he waiting a couple of weeks!
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
Which one are you and is it how you want to be?Comment
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I have a vague recollection of Hugh stuffing one with pigeon in his early series where he had the Ford Corsair.Originally posted by Two_Sheds View PostComment
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i'd love to find some puffballs ............... where am i likely to find them???Comment
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OH found that one in a field near work (he works in the middle of nowhere), surrounded by a few others but most of the stuff he gets from round tree stumps in the woods
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
Which one are you and is it how you want to be?Comment
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We used to get giant puffballs on the sides of a no-longer-used farm midden. Once you've found a place they grow, you may find more in the same place. The actual 'mushroom' is rather like the fruit on an underground tree. (scientifically, that is rubbish, but as a way of understanding how they appear, it will do)Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.Comment
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