I love growing and eating mushrooms. I’ve tried various ways of growing them over the years including kits and dowels. I also grew oyster mushrooms for several months to sell at the farmers markets. My favourite mushroom for growing at…
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In a previous life I was a mushroom grower. Here’s a summary of how to use button and oyster mushrooms – the most common ones we buy in NZ. I wrote this for people who bought my mushrooms at the…
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Ingredients – serves 2 1TB butter, ghee or oil 1 medium onion – diced 1TB diced thyme (or 2TB fresh) or similar herb of your preference eg sage ½ c risotto rice ½ tsp turmeric 1 cup chicken or vegetable stock…
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Ingredients – serves 2 200g fresh pasta (less for dried – about 130-150g) 3 saffron stigma or a pinch of dried turmeric 3 spring onions 100 g oyster mushrooms 3 big handfuls of spinach 2 eggs 50g parmesan cheese
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Button or field mushrooms can be seen growing in paddocks at the right time of year. To replicate growing them at home needs a little more than luck…..
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Oyster mushrooms are one of the easiest mushrooms to grow at home. You can buy a kit and are pretty much guaranteed success. For anyone who loves growing things I recommend you give it a try – a couple of…
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