The Aspen Oyster Mushrooms in the following photos were growing on our dying/dead aspen trees. Some of the mushrooms were growing near the ground and some many feet up the trunk. The clumps were ‘many inches’ wide and each would have been enough for several meals if I had been so inclined. Which I wasn’t.
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once.
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
– Shirley Conran –
Never crowd a pan with too many mushrooms. They give off an enormous amount of moisture. And there’s nothing worse than a braised mushroom, other than a lot of braised mushrooms.
– Simon Schama –
Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn’t know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 – most kids today do.
– Emeril Lagasse –
Mushrooms… are the closest you can get to eating dirt.
– Tom Colicchio –
…but I also can’t prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.
– Daniel Dennett –
Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.
– Charles E. McKenzie –
Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.
– Woody Allen –
Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.
– Mary Virginia Terhune –
Mushroom ‘Groaners’:
Help me – I’m in truffle.
Questionable morels.
Please scoot over – there’s not mushroom.
Why did the mushroom go to the party? Becaue he’s a fungi!
-Louis Tomlinson –
In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom – for example, in senates and learned societies
– Friedrich Nietzsche –
A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.
– Mark Twain –
… we have spotted a roadside sign: ‘CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS’. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? ‘As one victim to another,’ his body language seems to marvel, ‘What’s a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?’
– Alexander Masters –
Plant Profile
Common Name: Aspen Oyster Mushroom
Scientific Name: Pleurotus populinus
Growth: Saprobic (lives on decomposing dead or decaying organic material which it uses as food); grows in shelf-like clusters on dead and living wood of Populus species, primarily quaking aspen.
Location: Prairie/foothills region north of Calgary Alberta
I’m a vegetarian who doesn’t like eggplant parmesan. Isn’t that awful? I’m also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like,” A vegetarian’s coming to dinner,” so they serve those.
– Candy Crowley –
The TSA must think we’re mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow.
– Douglas Wilson –
Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.
– Louis de Bernieres –
I didn’t know what shiitake mushrooms were until [forget 10] I was 30. Didn’t have sushi until much later than that. I like the mushroom jokes. Guess that makes me a fungal. ☺️
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I too didn’t meet shitake mushrooms or sushi until I was well into adulthood!
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Mark Twain had my mouth watering this morning!
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It made me hungry too! I live in Alberta beef country – we know how great beef can be!
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Those are odd looking mushrooms! The only ones I’m familiar with are the ones I buy in stores, (button, I think they’re called) and morel mushrooms, which my in-laws love to find in the woods. Thanks for sharing!
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The oyster mushrooms are so unique because they are so big and visible. They grow for weeks – quite a treat to have them in a few of our trees!
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I loved some of these quotes Margy. I am however left wondering if you eat mushrooms or are you part of the resistance?
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Yes, I do eat mushrooms though to be honest it is what I add to the mushrooms that makes them so flavorful, I think!
If the stories are true, our house was built 40 years ago for a man who owned a mushroom growing facility. Every few years I bring home a truck full of spent ‘mushroom compost’ from what I think was the same facility. Small world.
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“… archipelagoed with mushrooms…” – now that’s what I call colorful. Mushrooms are impressive here in the South, a byproduct of the ample humidity and moisture. They burst through the grass overnight where there were none before. But I’ll still buy mine at the market.
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Yes, I buy mine at the market too!
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I read this post sitting on a toadstool– ironic, eh? Great stuff, Margy. I especially liked the Nietzsche quote: “In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom…”
Sounds like today’s media censorship, but I wouldn’t describe the ensuing corruption as innocent!! Cheers from New Hampshire!! 🙏😊
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I thought that quote was quite applicable to what is going on today. History repeats itself!
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I’m toad that sitting on a stool and eating a mushroom can be dangerous. 🙂
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Your trailer told me it goes where it is toad to…
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Wow, you could put together a Mushroom Encyclopedia and Joke Book!
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Funny is everywhere and thanks to the internet it is ever so easy to find in everything.
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