Mushrooms

With various varieties of mushrooms cultivated, there is a good selection to choose from all year around. Some of the more common being the button, oyster, shiitake, chestnut, shimeji and enoki.

A vast selection of wild mushrooms appears between late summer till late autumn, with a range of different textures and flavours. Some of the more familiar are the morel, cep, saffron milk cap, horn of plenty, chanterelle and the most sought after mushroom of them all, the black Perigord truffle.

When choosing mushrooms select dry, fresh and plump looking specimens, avoiding ones that look slimy or shriveled or any that have traces of maggots. Only buy what you need as mushrooms deteriate and start to loose flavour as soon as they have been picked.