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The versatility of mushrooms — from enhancing your dinner plate to fighting fires.
Dear Reader,
Cooler fall weather sends Dot to the kitchen, where I’ve been cooking up some soups and casseroles and an apple crumble from the apples in my backyard. It’s a race to see who can get them first — me or my dog Theo, who has taken to jumping up and pulling the fruit right off the low-hanging branches.
But tonight, this delicious mushroom pasta is on the menu. Mushrooms, we know, are great meat substitutes (not to mention that they’re versatile — they can also fight fires!), and super healthy.
Want to read about mushrooms as well as eat them? Then get yourself a copy of Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life: How Fungi Shape Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures (available on Amazon and Thriftbooks). Fungi are more than just the mushrooms we see; they’re also a diverse network of organisms that exist beneath our feet, improving soil health, sequestering carbon, regulating plant growth, and boosting biodiversity. By understanding them, Merlin argues, we just might better understand life itself.
Fungily,
Dot
Add mushrooms to a stir-fry, soup, tart, and more.
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