Thursday, March 12, 2009

Pasta alla funghi

4 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Joan Crippa came home on Feb. 26, the day her husband gathered the mushrooms, to find him sautéing them with butter in a pan. "He really ate a lot of them," she said. "He said they were the best mushrooms he had ever eaten."

Duhhh... What does Darwin say?

Mr roT said...

Hey, if they're that good and you're already 88, it might be a good way out.

My Frontier Thesis said...

No sense in lingering on the vine, or stem in this case. I think one of those little poisonous bastards is enough to do a liver in.

Make sure to reference a copy of "Edible Wild Plants" before harvesting and tossing anything into a skillet. Nature is tasty, but she's also an unforgiving bitch.

Tecumseh said...

Apparently, the old geezer read the book beforehand, but these creepy fungi are sneaky: the bad one looks almost identical to the good one. Hasta la vista, baby. But, as Mr Rot said, when you gotta go you gotta go -- may as well go out with a bang, splurging on sauteed wild mushrooms, than with a whimper. Que dici?