Basic Blissful Morel Mushroom Pasta Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 lb fresh morels, split, soaked in salt water for 10", drained, some chopped
1 lb fresh pasta,ww preferred
3 Tb wild garlic chives
1 stick sweet butter
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
3/4 pint half n half
juice of half a lemon
salt,pepper,nutmeg,Worcestershire sauce
Reggiano Parmesano
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Directions:Have shimmering pasta pot of water ready. In large preferably non reactive
heavy skillet on medium high melt butter it foams and add morels, garlic, chives,shake of Worcestershire, ,and lemon. Stir and cover for several minutes. Mushrooms are 90% water so we reduce,cook morels, and intensify the flavor. Off lid. "The nose Knows!" and they will tell you when they are done becoming most fragrant . Then add half n half and reduce by 1/3 casually stirring the sauce. Correct with salt, pepper, and optional nutmeg. Off heat, stir in 1 cup Reggiano Parmesano.
Drop fresh noodles into shimmering water...they will float to surface when done and this can occur within 30 seconds for aldente. Reserve half cup cooking water, drain noodles and add to the sauce tossing. Its optional to
add cilantro/parsley for color.
Note: guest seated and waiting for pasta not conversely as this is a super gourmet item .
***its unique and ambrosial and will disappear fast. Summers Chanterelles
sliced and quartered do equally well in this recipe. |
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Notes: (preface to Mushroom Recipes)
Bassetting and Mushrooming
Morels are Springs blessing, our grown up Easter egg hunt, very expensive
and exclusively wild, past is prologue so ones morels spots are protected.
Basseting's covering of woodlands, pastures, and creek bottoms where were keenly observing game and hound movement quite naturally tranins one on the flora and fauna of an area..the wild ginger, trilliums, creatures, and for several of us Wild Mushrooms. Oysters and black chanterelles have a winter
presence, morels and chanterelles, spring and summer respectively.
Note: 'LBM's...little brown mushrooms, per Missouri Department of Conservation, are a fast way to leave the planet! Years training per Missouri
Mycological Society or such precede wild mushroom...that said, I limit my choices to 3 or 4 easy to identify and excellent gourmet wild mushrooms as do my fellow schroomers.
Schrooming is an ultimate Rite of Spring:a grown up Easter egg hunt of
discovery and fun, great exercise, and quite natural for all of us who enjoy
Natures re-balancing and the story it tells to us through its creative expression.
The ease and skill noted with an experienced mushroomer is "an overnite
sensation...40 years in the making"!
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