A Foraging Frolic - Mushrooms

Fringe Food Festival

May 12, 2012

Melbourne's vegan Embrasse dinner nosotros attended concluding year). When I noticed that an upcoming mushroom foraging resultant included a vegetarian catering selection I was quick to forrard it on to fungus fan Mike - he gave the nod together with I nabbed he, your regular bloggin' Michael together with I tickets to bring together in.

The resultant began together with ended at the idyllic Bress Winery, where co-owner Adam gave us a tour of the wine- together with cider-making facilities together with winery domestic dog Ollie showed us the best sticks.

Adam assisted Matt of Mushrooms Anonymous inward showing us circular a span of their local foraging spots, giving us the basics on edible together with inedible mushrooms, together with every bit good every bit some fungus foraging etiquette. We picked enough for lunch, together with institute a expert few poisonous species to admire together with exit alone.

 

Arriving dorsum at Bress, I was pretty excited to run into together with odour potatoes baked inward the outdoor wood-fired oven! Yep, they were for us together with they were delicious.

Before the spuds came to the tabular array nosotros feasted on our haul, sopping upward the juices alongside fluffy warm bread.

Though the grey ghosts didn't expect quite every bit appetising every bit the pino mushrooms, they were first-class - I suspect the hole-and-corner part was butter.

The other highlight of the repast was these croquettes - their crisp crumbing gave agency to a molten mushroom filling. Ironically, though, us vegetarians were fed slightly fewer mushrooms than the other guests. While they dined on beef cheeks together with to a greater extent than mushies, nosotros were treated to some tender glazed roast veges together with a salad featuring locally grown chilli peppers. Though I'm an incorrigible sugariness tooth, I appreciated the understated dessert that nosotros finished upward alongside - a poached pear one-half inward thick syrup alongside a dollop of cream.

It was all catered yesteryear Jo from The Commoner, together with has piqued my involvement inward the restaurant's veg-adaptable menu.

We dearest a route trip alongside Mike, had a lot of fun at this event, together with are pretty swell to drive some to a greater extent than mushroom hunting ourselves. Two to a greater extent than foraging frolics are scheduled, for May 26 together with June 2. If you're lucky you lot may all the same last able to buy tickets!

____________

This Foraging Frolic has also been blogged on Pigging out simply about the world.