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  Your Shiitake kit ready and raring to go, you should be able to see and feel little firm ‘pinheads’ pressed against the protective wrapper.
 When to pick:
It is important to pick the mushrooms on time for maximum flavour, it is best to pick them just as the caps start turning up. To harvest fold the bag down, cutting each mushroom as close to the block as possible.
Method
1.Cook pasta as per instructions 2. Prepare the vegetables: grate onion, chop garlic, wash and cut green beans in half, wash or brush off mushrooms, remove tough stalk 3.Melt 2 tbsp of butter in a pan over medium-high heat, saute onion for 2 minutes. Add in the garlic and cook until fragrant, 1-2 minutes. 4.De glaze the pan with 1/4 cup white wine, scraping up all the bits at the bottom. Cook until the liquid has reduced by half. 5.Reduce heat to medium and add in the mushrooms, green beans and 1 tbsp of butter . Cook stirring a few times for 5 minutes. Add in 1/4 cup of water and cook for another 4 minutes. Adding the thyme partway through. 6. Turn the heat off and add in the remaining tbsp of butter and the Parmesan cheese 7.Serve over cooked pasta
Method 1.) Heat the olive oil in a small non-stick frying pan. Fry the mushrooms on a high heat, stirring occasionally for 3-4 mins until golden. Take out of the pan into a bowl and mix with the cheese and parsley. 2.) Add a pinch of mushroom Salt Put the pan back on the heat and pour the eggs into it. Cook for 1 min or until set to your liking, swirling with a fork now and again. 3.)Spoon the mushroom mix over one half of the omelette. Using a spatula or palette knife, flip the omelette over to cover the mushrooms. Cook for a few moments more, lift onto a plate RecipeNICE AND SIMPLE BUT OH BOY DOES IT TASTE GOOD!
Grow Kits
 Check these out too. These are Shitake. Nothing like the dried up ones you buy in the shops. Highly recommended!
We ate a LOT of mushrooms that month!  Serves 2
Ingredients Two large sweet potatoes Merryhill Mushrooms Traditional Mushroom Salt Vegetable oil Method 1. Take the two large sized sweet potatoes then cut into thin 'fries' 2. Combine 1 and a half tea spoon mushroom salt with 1 table spoon veg oil. Mixed together. Then spread over the fries 3. Bake until soft, for roughly 30 minutes Recipe by The Vegan Recipe Hour https://veganrecipehour.wordpress.com/ The photos are taken a day apart. It’s likely they were in an area a bit too warm, as it’s important to spray them regularly with water, to for me that meant the downstairs utility room, next to the sink.  From this, to this...  the ones on the back did well too, especially considering I hadn’t noticed there was a growing hole in the back, so for the first couple of days they didn’t get sprayed – oops! (read the instructions, Beth, read the instructions).  I cropped the lot, cutting low (I’m told, if I keep watering the ‘stump’ I’ll get a second flush of mushrooms) and spent an age debating what to cook.  I settled on a Jamie Oliver recipe, for posh mushrooms on toast (Mushrooms sourdough bruschettas, to be exact). I used to have a thing about mushrooms on toast, since becoming addicted to them in a little cafe in Skipton, when we were allowed out of school to eat our lunch in sixth form. Back then they were cheap and creamy and from a tin and I do still often cook a version with creme fraiche and garlic, but this recipe calls for hollandaise and tarragon and it seemed worthy of my precious growing efforts. All in all, it has been a lovely experience using these kits, super easy and with great results. Sorry any family reading that get these for gifts, but you’ll thank me in the long run.   Preparation Time : 5 mins
Cooking time : 20 mins Ingredients Per Mushroom Use 1 large Portabella/flat mushroom 1" chunk of cheddar cheese 1" slice of goats cheese 1 clove garlic Hand full chopped spinach, red pepper knob of butter Olive oil Method 1. Finely chop Garlic 2. Chop/Crumble cheddar and goats cheese 3. Dice red pepper 4. Finely chop Spinach 5. Combine all ingredients in a small bowl 6. Spoon contents evenly into your mushroom 7. Place on baking tray and cook at 180 for 20 mins  Preparation Time : 5 mins
Cooking time : 40 mins Ingredients - to feed 2-3 Handful of chestnut mushrooms, chopped but left chunky Arborio rice, half a packet Vegetable stock cube Boiled water and cold water, approx 4-5 pints 1 clove of garlic 1 onion, sliced Tablespoon of Olive Oil Knob of butter Salt and pepper to season Parmesan cheese according to taste Optional Frozen peas, sweet corn Method 1. Using a large pan, fry the onion and garlic in the olive oil until slightly golden 2. Add the rice and the butter and stir so that rice is well coated 3 Dissolve the stock cube in a pint of boiled water and add to the pan 4. Stir 5. Add the mushrooms and salt and pepper and keep stirring 6. Add more water and any additional ingredients and keep stirring 7. Keep stirring and adding water until the rice is soft. It should have a thick, moist glossy consistency 8. Serve warm with a sprinkle of Parmesan on top, and enjoy!  INGREDIENTS
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