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A Low-Tech Experiment in Growing Oyster Mushrooms

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Gardening, Mushrooms
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...By January 18th the oyster mushrooms were “pinning,” that is, beginning to fruit out of the 1/4 inch holes. On January 27th, I harvested my first cluster of mushrooms. I can report that blue oyster mushrooms are delicious, with a concentrated umami/super-mushroomy flavor. One curious thing: the mushrooms I harvested look more like the Italian Oyster mushrooms that North Spore sells, so I wonder if a mix-up happened. I’ve written North Spore for a...

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Mushroom Mania

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Events, Gardening, Mushrooms
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...t bunch of pearl oyster mushrooms and it looks like the reishi is about to fruit. In the class, McCoy showed us how to handle liquid mushroom cultures in a low-tech technique called PF Tek invented by Robert McPherson, aka Psylocybe Fanaticus. McCoy will speak at the next meeting of the Los Angeles Mycological Society on Monday, March 21st at 7:30 p.m. via a livestream you can access on YouTube. The oyster mushrooms we’ve grown this winter have be...

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Hoshigaki Season!

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Food, Food Preservation
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...eted. If you’ve never tried making hoshigaki, a kind of transcendent dried fruit product that’s very expensive to buy, I can report that it’s one of the more worthwhile DIY projects on this blog and we’ve got directions here. EaterLA has a post on different methods and the history of the practice. Our original post on the subject resulted in one of the more surreal episodes over the years running this blog: being invited to be on a Japanese realit...

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I Made a Coffee Sandwich

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Food, Recipes
...ate on our recent trip to Japan. Typically, those sandwiches consist of a fruit and whipped cream filling served on fluffy Japanese milk bread called Hokkaido (北海道). I guess I could have invented a savory coffee sandwich (maybe pork with a coffee rub?), but instead I decided to go down the sweet path: Me: Create a Japanese style dessert sandwich using bread with a coffee filling ChatGPT: Certainly! Here’s a recipe for a Japanese-style dessert san...

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Saturday Tweets: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

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Saturday Linkages
...mber 22, 2018 Very good agroecology thread here! https://t.co/j1jGfbPE8o — Fruit Cornucopia (@ValenzuelaJohn) November 21, 2018 We're holding a major town hall on Dec. 3 to talk about one of the most pressing global crises facing us today: climate change. Will you be tuning in? pic.twitter.com/DK5FR0MyMh — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) November 19, 2018 Insurance groups are recommending GoFundMe as official policy – where customers can die if t...

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