Nothing can beat the taste of a field mushroom – one of the small joys of recent weeks
They are the basis for one of my favourite recipes, a real food of the gods, writes Janet Street-Porter
Can I tell you about a free source of joy, that’s legal and widely available? Wild mushrooms!
OK, this autumn has been wet, windy and miserable, but one benefit is a bumper crop of huge saucer-shaped field mushrooms with delicate pink gills. Roaming the marshes in Norfolk I have picked so many I’ve been living on them for weeks.
They're drying on radiators, being turned into soups, risottos and pasta sauce. Just soften some chopped onion in oil and butter, add mushrooms in chunks, some thyme leaves and lemon juice and stew for ten minutes, then stir in a cup of cream, add salt and pepper and let it bubble gently till it thickens – job done!
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