Winter Program Highlights
About 20 of us gathered in the teaching kitchen at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education on Saturday, January 16th for Cooking Mushrooms with Lisa Plato. Lisa was well prepared with detailed handouts of the recipes that we used.
We prepared Phyllo Beggars' Purses, Roasted Mushrooms, Mushroom Risotto, and Crepes with Wild Mushroom Duxelles. Lisa also prepared in advance a delicious Mushroom Soup and Mushroom stuffed avacadoes. We had wine and enjoyed the fruits of our labor in this four hour workshop.
Other events this past winter included our yard sale, a lively affair featuring loads of interesting mushroom related items brought by club members. A special thanks to Ben Maleson for all his contributions. We also screened "Mushrooms as Planetary Healers: From Toxic Waste Sites to Old Growth Forests," a lecture filmed in 2000 with Paul Stamets.
Marshall Deutsch presented our first workshop of the 2010 season, on cultivating Pleurotus (oyster) mushrooms on newspaper. A fascinating and informative workshop with a very lively and entertaining presenter! Finally, we had Suzanne Terry to speak on children's book author Beatrix Potter, who was an accomplished mycologist and illustrator of many mushroom species. The presentation was excellent and Potter's paintings of fungi were stunning.
posted 2010-03-18 16:42:31