Cooking with Mushrooms: A Fungi Lover\’s Guide to the World\’s Most Versatile, Flavorful, Health-Boosting Ingredients (Andrea Gentl)

Called \”afungus-lover\’s delight\” by Carla Lalli Music,Cooking With Mushrooms: A Fungi Lover\’s Guide to the World\’s Most Versatile, Flavorful, Health-Boosting Ingredientsby award-winning food and travel photographer Andrea Gentlfeatures nearly 100 recipes that unlock the powerful flavors and health-giving properties of the worlds most magical ingredient.

Focusing on a dozen of the more accessible, cultivated varieties as well as a few wild mushrooms, recipes includeMorels on Fried Sourdough with Smashed Favas and Peas,Roast Chicken with Miso-Mushroom Butter,Golden Tonic Elixir with Turmeric Mushrooms and Black Garlic,King Trumpet Schnitzel,\’Shroomy Nut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies, andMaple-Mushroom Ice Cream with Salty Mushroom Caramel.In addition to these sumptuous, healing dishes,COOKING WITH MUSHROOMSdelves into:

• The different varieties and flavor profiles of mushrooms. Some are mild, others are briny, some have strong, earthy flavors, while others taste of sweet maple syrup. Ranging from a dark inky indigo to white, black, brown, gray, orange, and all colors in between, they are often adaptogenic and high in protein and minerals, as well as B and D vitamins.
• Notes onstoring, pricing, cleaning, andprepping, along with how to tell when a mushroom is at itspeak freshness
• How togrow your own mushrooms
• How tomake and use dried mushrooms, along with how tocreate your own mushroom powder
• A list of larder essentialsand how to make them, fromMiso Mushroom ButtertoRustic Maitake Lovage Walnut Pistachio PestotoMiso Mushroom Popcorn Dust

Beautiful, flavorful, and mysterious, mushrooms are an incredibly versatile ingredient, equally able to be humble or elevated. Every one of Gentls recipes celebrates this, expanding readers ideas of how to use this mystical ingredient as both a food and a flavor, a seasoning, and the star of the plate. And the package is absolutely gorgeous too.