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February 5th, 2011 by pkingsley in Anything goes, Beans, Compost, Corn, Garden Problems, Gardening Tips and Tricks, Garlic, Herbs, Melons, My vegetable garden, Peas, Plangarden News, Potatoes, Recipies, Tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Zucchini

Just new to the site.  I garden every year, but laST 2 YEARS HVE BEEN AWFUL.  I’m getting ready to start my cold weather plants…yaaa. means spring not to far away!! .  I live in northern michigan just below Mac Bridge.  I think i might try some container gardening this year.


Shiitake Onion Pork

February 27th, 2010 by kbaichtal in My vegetable garden, Recipies

(Crossposted from my grin_bear LiveJournal)

Yesterday the mushrooms were ready to harvest! I judged this based on the stems were starting to get thinner and the edges of the mushrooms were thinning out as well so they looked their mature shape. Also I just wanted to eat them!

I had learned my lesson on previous harvests and carefully sawed them off with a sharp serrated knife going in one direction only. This minimized damage to the tree bark and the mushroom both.

Here they are in a Tupperware to await use in a recipe! I had not yet figured what to make yet when this photo was taken.

In the meantime, the log went back into its bucket to be soaked in filtered water for several hours before going back into the terrarium to rest and await the internal buildup of its new crop.

Tonight I made this yummy dish that was radically modified from a few I found on the web, and could loosely be called, er,

s Shiitake Onion Pork s



Yields: 2 Servings

Ingredients

1/2 Onion chopped
6 cloves Garlic finely chopped
5 each Shiitake mushrooms sliced
8 slices Pork Sirloin End Roast cooked
2 tablespoon Apple Jelly
1 cup Chicken bouillon 1 cube in water, heated
lol1 teaspoon Fresh rosemary chopped


Instructions
Saute onion and rosemary until onion is cooked but not browned. Stir in apple jelly and mix until heated through and mostly broken up and worekd in. Add garlic and mushrooms and saute until somewhat soft to taste. Add bouillon and heat through. Optionally thicken with yarrowroot. Spoon over slices of pork roast with a side of apple walnut bread.