Darkest Kitchen: Stinkhorn delicatesse

[chattius 2,526]

Stinkhorn's are the mushroom equivalent to a skunk. But young ones are eatible when the skin is removed. They taste la bit like a radish.

I was really puzzled that a visiting family from America was shocked when they saw me walking with the dog, sniffing, walking to the most stinking place and pick some small egglike mushrooms and eat them raw.

So stinkhorns are not eaten outside our barbarian state?

The eatable baby ones are nicknamed Hexeneier = witch egg's.

 

The young but not yet brown ones are Leichenfinger = corpse finger. Stinkhorns often grow on graveyards and the white ones look like fingers reaching out from the grave.

 

The well known adult Stinkmorchel =stinkhorn. Many popular nicknames are also because it looks a bit like a certain body part of male mammals. Luckily it is too smelly to be eaten. I won't image which other nicknames it would have if eatable.

 

[Gilberticus 374]

In my neck of the woods, we call those devil's dipstick. It's kind of funny how we can find human anatomy mirrored in nature. I have a huge smoky quartz I couldn't seem to sell in my store because of it's phallic shape. It didn't help that the geode was rounded and looked like a pair of giggleberries.

[Delta! 987]

I love wild mushrooms, and the different tastes of all of them... Some of my favourites are shimeji, king oyster, portabello, shiitake and forelle(only tasted it once) mushrooms.

 

I'd be more put off if it resembled a female anatomy part...

 

Delta!

[chattius 2,526]

Oyster, shiitake, ... they can be easily cultivated on wet stray in our ramped-clay deep-down cellars which were used to store food for as long the house is old: 300+ years.

My favourite wild mushroom and easy to find at my place is the Steinpilz, a variant of the boletes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_edulis

But it used to grow only on the northern hemisphere. You aren't a cook in germany if you don't know to prepare good Steinpilz recipes

Steinpilze are often dried to store them without loosing the taste. You have to water them so they suck up liquid and can be used like fresh ones. 30gramm dried are like a pound fresh. depending on how young you picked them.

 

Some recipes:

http://mybestgermanrecipes.com/tag/steinpilz/

http://germanyonyourmind.com/2013/10/02/steinpilz-kartoffel-gratin-autumn-recipe/

http://www.cookitsimply.com/recipe-0010-010377r.html

[gogoblender 3,070]

Stinkhorn's are the mushroom equivalent to a skunk. But young ones are eatible when the skin is removed. They taste la bit like a radish.

I was really puzzled that a visiting family from America was shocked when they saw me walking with the dog, sniffing, walking to the most stinking place and pick some small egglike mushrooms and eat them raw.

So stinkhorns are not eaten outside our barbarian state?

The eatable baby ones are nicknamed Hexeneier = witch egg's.

 

The young but not yet brown ones are Leichenfinger = corpse finger. Stinkhorns often grow on graveyards and the white ones look like fingers reaching out from the grave.

 

The well known adult Stinkmorchel =stinkhorn. Many popular nicknames are also because it looks a bit like a certain body part of male mammals. Luckily it is too smelly to be eaten. I won't image which other nicknames it would have if eatable.

 

 

Chattius, this is some great content you wrote up! I'm especially into mushrooms this time of year, with the weather getting colder, and rustic, more heavier foods being more appealing.

You've gotten me now piqued by looking at other mushroom types to get some extra tastiness into my stews!

 

gogo

[chattius 2,526]

Fitting t othe dark kitchen theme: I always liked the mushrooms who were both: tasty and deadly. But my will to survive limits them to the species which are only deadly if consumed together with alcohol.

Tippler's bane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprinopsis_atramentaria

 

 

[gogoblender 3,070]

Always found the pix of mushrooms captivating

And that they dont use chlorophyl is amazing

if there ever was a day with no sunlight in a dark creepy future

we could always have mushrooms as part of every delicious meal

 

 

gogo

[chattius 2,526]

Yes, and you can collect them the whole year if you know which mushroom has which season. Found a young 7 pound giant puffball sunday morning at an early walk with the dogs, even it is slightly off season already.

[gogoblender 3,070]

Big enuff for a pumpkin^^

 

 

gogo