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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
Never tried badger, I do like a good beaver though.
(sound of water splashing) i think we're in the gutter now.

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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
I don't think I've ever had crabs, err, I mean ate crabs, are they anything like kalimari? I love kalimari!
The Calimari I had was like eating plastic shoestrings. How on earth could you actually LIKE that stuff?

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I just get the everyday fresh white bulb mushrooms and stems... no idea what they are called. I love them cooked up in the butter with egg... or with steak or burger.

My wife makes great stuffed mushrooms. Chops up some of the stems and browns them up, adds them to some stuffing and crab meat... puts that in the caps and bakes them up. Very tasty and I could fill up on them alone.

I also used to like dried mushrooms when I was younger with an ice cold beer. A lot like popcorn snacks or something, and fun to pick out of your teeth.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
The Calimari I had was like eating plastic shoestrings. How on earth could you actually LIKE that stuff?
Let alone spell it...

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Originally posted by sonhouse
... I like most any of them fried in butter, some pepper and scallions, doesn't need salt! Incredible! I can have just that for dinner! With some nice Pinot Grigio or maybe a dry Johannasburg Reisling.
Nice to see some wino in you, sonny! 😵 Italian white wines like Vernaccia di SanGimignano - perfect!

My favourite mushrooms are Pine Mushrooms but I've been overcome by Amanita Muscaria in the past 🙄

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Podgzybki, kania, prawdziwki and maslaki, together with koszlarzy if you can find them, go find them, put them in a pan with a good knob of butter and gently reduce them for 10 minutes. Kurki on the side...


To die for...

EDIT: Sorry, no idea what the English names are...

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Originally posted by sonhouse
The Calimari I had was like eating plastic shoestrings. How on earth could you actually LIKE that stuff?
You didn't get a good batch, or might not have access to good fresh squid. It should be tender like a meaty noodle-mushroom... nothing like laces or leather.

Get a real dish somewhere, or travel for it.

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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Psilocybin are 'magic', if you like that sort of thing.
I took those at a Greatful Dead concert 20 some years ago at the University of Illinois Chicago auditorium. I kept looking for the speakers on the floor.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
The Calimari I had was like eating plastic shoestrings. How on earth could you actually LIKE that stuff?
The calamari we sometimes had in the canteen of the music college often got compared with car tyres, but I actually liked them. And of course you can't expect much if you pay something like 2 $.

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Don't start me on seafood again, I eat it while it's still flapping...

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Originally posted by rbmorris
Calamari is much different, but if you like that, you'd love crab. I'd compare crabmeat more to lobster or scallops.
Calamari is awesome if it's done right. I've had bad calamari that's been terrible, but the good stuff is fantastic.

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Back on topic...

Black morel. Sauteed and served on a cheeseburger.

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Some nice boletus ceps...

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Freshly picked ceps (boletus) cleaned with a dry cloth (never wash them in water as they get all soggy), fried in a generous amount of oil, with chopped garlic.

Sprinkle a little chopped parsley et voilà!