Friend dropped off boletus edulis mushrooms in morning. He had collected them with another friend who also lives in Albuquerque. I'm invited on their next mushroom foray. The unprecedented monsoonal rains we're having will ensure that the bumper crop continues.
The mushrooms he gave me were in wonderful condition. I saw very little evidence that bugs had fed on them. He explains in his mushroom reports that this means the mushrooms grew very fast before the bugs could feast on them.
To prepare them, I softened onions and garlic in water, gently simmering them with the lid on. Then I added the trimmed mushrooms and simmered them some more, adding 1 T canola oil and some parsley flakes at the end. They taste delicious. I made broth out of the boletus sponge and mushroom trimmings. I froze most of the mushrooms and the broth. Next week, I will add them to brown rice.
I prepared the mushrooms during a power outage. We were having an amazingly profuse rain storm and the power went off at 6 pm and didn't go on again until 7:30 pm or so. Daughter who lives in North Community didn't have power until midnight. White Rock didn't have an outage. When I walked around 9 pm last night, it looked like North Mesa still didn't have power.
I walked late because we went to Santa Fe. I returned some items to REI and looked for new hiking shoes but didn't find any. I attended "worship services" at the Sunflower Farmer's Market produce department. Yummy!!
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