cooking mushrooms

Your Mojo for Risotto

Risotto is a traditional Italian rice dish. It is one of the most common ways of cooking rice in Italy.  Its origins are in North Italy,  where rice paddies are abundant.  To be correctly described as a risotto dish, it …


Chanterelle Utopia

It all began with one line in an email from a friend…”chanterelles are in season”.  Within the hour I was  in the woods huntin’ wild mushrooms.  The season for chanterells is late summer to late fall.  They appear more abundantly …