I was looking around the cupboards in the kitchen and came across this tin. I’m guessing it would be most useful during a nuclear holocaust as it’s two years out of date already.
So, what’s inside the tin?
Yummy!
And how’s they taste?
They taste fine, but because they’ve been in a tin for over 3 years, very metallic, but yeah, OK; mushroomy-ee-y.
So what cooking adventure do you think can I take these little guys on?
My Facebook page had plenty of ideas!
Paterson Pancake “Make a cocktail using the juice and some alcohol, garnish it with one of the mushrooms on a cocktail stick”
SethandLindsey Shipman “Make mushroom icecream”
Emily Diamondflamer Payne “Mushroom fool? Mushroom cake instead of carrot cake?”
and Brittany Hugley says “I hate them, they taste odd canned, rubbery. Not sure there is any redeeming Qualities here”
Well well, well, looks like we’re going down the sweets route again!
Luckily, after travelling down this road for all of five minutes I spy this at the back of another cupboard:
Sprinkles!
It seems fairly obvious to me that I’m going to make some kind of delicious trifle involving tinned mushrooms!
I begin by looking for more ingredients around the kitchen and assemble the following:
Stewed apple, Maltesers, double cream, tinned mushrooms (can you spot the continuity error?) and Sprinkles.
And I’ve drawn this accurate and not-hard-to-follow-at-all diagram that explains to y’all how my mushroom trifle will be constructed:
Right, let’st start by warming then blending them mushrooms in some milk:
FYI, this took ages cos the wee bam’s were really rubbery…
Next, I crush the Maltesers and whip the cream:
The final step is to assemble my amazing fungi-flavoured tower of goodness:
Left sans Agaricus bisporus, right avec Agaricus bisporus
And how do they taste?
Well, the normal trifle is super tasty; rich, crunchy, sweet and the apples cut through the dessert nicely…mind you, after a few mouthfulls it begins to get a bit sickly cos I overwhipped the cream.
On to the mushroom version….
It’s edible, I’ll grant it this much, but when you get a big spoonful of the mushroom sauce you almost gag a little because of its saltiness and rubbery, chewy texture, so I eat the rest by carefully choosing my spoonfuls so they don’t contain too high a ratio of the fungi.
Overall, I’m going to give this dish a big fat meh; neither a fail nor a pass. But I’m sure that you could somehow use fresh creamy mushroom sauce and make this trifle idea really work (and win CDWM or something like that).
So, did you like my mushroom dessert? Or maybe you’re dead set on taking the fungi-trifle challenge? In which case cast your spores to the Facebook page or even Twitter.
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FYI I used the rest of the mushroom sauce for a soup which was fine. Cos I know you wondered.
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