August 26, 2010 by Tristan

Mushroom Oil: Creating your own secret ingredient

The Essential Ingredient’s range of dried mushrooms are perfect for many dishes; sauces, risottos, stuffing, pickles, omelettes, stews, or anywhere fresh mushrooms are used.

They’re also perfect for creating your own secret ingredient: Mushroom oil.

Simply choose your favourite dried mushroom variety- the Essential Ingredient’s core range includes porcini, morel, shiitake, chanterelles and boletes- or a combination …

March 29, 2010 by OCM

The Essential Guide to Funghi (Wild Mushrooms)

While fungi forages have become a popular Autumn activity over the past few years, many of the special varieties of mushrooms enjoyed today are commercially unavailable in Australia.  We are fortunate that French and Italian producers have perfect the art of drying mushrooms so that we may enjoy …