Trying out my homegrown mushrooms
A few days ago, I made a post about Growing my own Mushrooms and talked about the oyster mushrooms I was growing. Well they were ready for harvest, so I decided to try them out and see how they tasted.
So after plucking them off the substrate, I figured it would be good to wash them and get the crap off them. Some of the tops had some white stuff on them, and the stems were pretty dirty.
After rinsing them nicely, I cut the little baby ones off the larger ones and trimmed the stems up a bit. I really had no clue what I was doing because while I have cooked mushrooms in meals before, I have never grown my own mushrooms and don't have any idea how much of the stem I am supposed to cut off or really anything to do with these things.
So I decided I was gonna wing it and just make something up and see how it tastes. I have been cooking up some pretty amazing tasting recipes lately (which I am most likely going to start posting here in this community), so I figured this should be easy enough.
After washing up the mushrooms, I put about one or one and a half globs of diced garlic in a pan. After the garlic was warmed up, I dumped the mushrooms in the pan.
Then I added some sauce of soy and then wangjangled all the ingredients together. "What is wangejangle?" You might be asking.
According to the great Urban Dictionary, here is the definition of wangjangle:
Wangjangle is another word for mixing something however it is also an acronym describing how to mix two or more substances perfectly. its stands for:
Whisk the mixture vigorously.
Always mix in the edges.
Never give up
Get serious.
Jostle the mixture.
Always mix in the middle.
Never get lazy.
Give it all you've got.
Leave no molecule uncombined.
Enthusiastically end with exuberance.
Wangjangle it until nicely combined.
Now that everything was nice and wangjangled, I put a lid on it to let it steam and soften up the mushrooms a bit.
I'm not too sure how long I steamed them in there because I started listening to music and had to find something good to put on. Cooking without music is boring so I needed to spice things up in the kitchen with a good soundtrack.
I recommend a playlist based off of this song here. It is nice a rndelaxing, just like cooking should be.
Well, I don't think they are supposed to look like this... Oh well, I had already gone through all the work of growing, preparing and cooking these, so I had to give them a try.
My son wanted to try them as well, so I split them between two bowls. They smelled delicious. I think it might have been the one or one and a half globs of garlic that smelled so delicious, so I couldn't wait to try these.
Nope. They were not good at all. I don't think I cooked them long enough because they were a very odd mixture of soggy and a bit crunchy. I could deal with them being all the way soggy or all the way crunchy, but when I had to bite through a soggy layer and then was surprised by a crunchy texture, I couldn't deal with it.
So all in all, I think I need to learn how to prepare mushrooms a bit better and learn how to cook with fresh picked mushrooms before I try this disaster again.
Don't worry, the next post I write here in the Foodies Bee Hive Community will actually have an edible finished product.
This is what I made last night. It was a jalapeno stuffed with cream cheese, wrapped in ground sausage that was seasoned with bbq spices, wrapped in bacon and then smoked for a few hours in my smoker. It was AMAZING. Probably about forty to fifty times better than the mushrooms I just cooked.