WILD GALIANO ISLAND MUSHROOMS . . . and Jacques Pepin's STUFFED MUSHROOMS

“No, no,” I promised everyone, “I won’t keep stopping to take mushroom pictures this time.”

And, I did manage to sneak by a lot of interesting ones.  But then  . . .  Well, honestly, can you blame me?  Flowers of the forest . . . 

                                              No stem!

We even started naming a few:

Frosted Glass Mushroom:  it was translucent!

the Nail

Goop from Outer Space

And the WTF Mushroom 

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At Happy Hour, our daughter remarked, “I never met a stuffed mushroom I didn’t like.”

Jacques Pépin’s Stuffed Mushrooms 

        From:  Jacques Pépin’s Simple and Healthy Cooking, c1994

To serve 4:  4 mushrooms for each person

16 medium button mushrooms

1 tbsp olive oil

2 ounces onion

1 clove garlic

1 slice bread

¼ cup raisins

1 tbsp chopped cilantro

1/8 tsp salt

1/8 tsp pepper

Dash Tabasco (or to taste)

1.    Whirl bread in food processor to make crumbs.  Set aside.

2.   Chop onion finely.  Set aside.

3.   Chop garlic finely.  Set aside.

4.   Chop cilantro.  Set aside.

5.   Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

6.   Remove mushroom stems. 

7.   Chop the stems in food processor and reserve.

8.   Put mushrooms, hollow side down, in baking dish.  Bake for 12 minutes.

9.   Set mushrooms aside and preheat broiler.

10.                Sauté onions in oil for 2 minutes.

11. Add garlic and sauté for 30 seconds.

12.                 Add chopped mushrooms and stir for 3 minutes over higher heat.

13.                Add bread crumbs, raisins, cilantro, salt, pepper, and Tabasco.

14.                Stuff mushroom caps.

15.                Broil for 3 minutes.

16.                Serve warm or at room temperature.