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IOTM: Cauliflower mushrooms!

by Jenise » Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:55 pm

Yesterday at our monthly lunch in Vancouver, one of those courses that makes you almost weep with gratitude (especially for the 98 Pommard it was served with) was a fricasse of chanterelles in veal demi glace on puff pastry, and topped with a separate fricasse of a frilly little pile of something called "cauliflower mushrooms". New one to me, at least by that description--it somewhat resembled the one I know as lions mane mushroom, but it seemed more toward the putty than golden color of white. But no matter, it was SENSATIONAL. Had a lovely flavor similar to oyster mushrooms but much more robust and foresty in flavor, and a texture that was silky like a oyster mushroom but which also had in a minor way some of the resilience of a wood ear. The pieces were paper-thin, and I presume that come that way but they also could have been shaved. For me the cauliflower mushrooms were the star of the dish. Anyone know anything about them?
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Re: IOTM: Cauliflower mushrooms!

by Stuart Yaniger » Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:23 pm

They're easily available around here. Knobby guys that look like little cauliflowerish golfballs. The ones you had were certainly shaved. I'll look up the Latin name and edit.
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Re: IOTM: Cauliflower mushrooms!

by tsunami » Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:43 am

do you have a link, or a foto of this mushrooms?
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Re: IOTM: Cauliflower mushrooms!

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Re: IOTM: Cauliflower mushrooms!

by tsunami » Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:16 pm

ahhh....

in german it is called "krause glucke"


"sparassis crispa" latin name
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Re: IOTM: Cauliflower mushrooms!

by Jenise » Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:42 pm

Kraude gluck?

[laughing] Tsunami, that sounds like an infectious disease. I think I like cauliflower better. Delicious 'shrooms by any name, though, really really delicious.
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Re: IOTM: Cauliflower mushrooms!

by Jenise » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:12 pm

Thanks for the Wikipedia link, Stuart, I should have looked it up myself. Anyway, that helps a lot. Loved the taste of these and perhaps the texture even more.
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