Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cindy Hamilton Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: 25-feb-2025 Something a little different for lunch Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:20:25 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: hamilton@invalid.com Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:20:25 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d482f87383669151bede1ab588f5c75e"; logging-data="3235549"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+V4t08gSNma7LWbccRNld3h3a40jTLt78=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cp87engJv6Sb10Ik32jL89YRmGc= Bytes: 2373 On 2025-02-26, Jill McQuown wrote: > On 2/26/2025 9:38 AM, Dave Smith wrote: >> On 2025-02-26 1:16 a.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote: >>> On 2025-02-26, Dave Smith wrote: >>> >>>> They are a good diet food because you can eat all the raw mushrooms you >>>> want and get almost no nutrition in them. There is some potassium in >>>> them, a minimal amount of Vitamin C and B6, a trace of Magnesium and >>>> calcium. The need some sort of fat to cook them in and you probably get >>>> more nutrition from that than the mushrooms themselves. Hell, you would >>>> probably glean more tradition from the shit they use to grow the >>>> mushrooms. >>> >>> >>> AND! What's that taste that Cindy made me look up? I'm going to look it >>> up again. "Terrior" ain't it. "Umami" ain't it. Petrichor? Geosim? >>> Take over for me, Cindy. I'm getting old, quick. :( >> >> >> The curious thing about mushrooms is that as nutritionally vacant as >> they are, they can act as a substitute for meat. That's what I use on my >> vegetarian pizza. > > I've heard over the years some people grill large portobello mushroom > caps in place of hamburgers. Some restaurants even serve that. -- Cindy Hamilton