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Article: THE APRON CHRONICLES; MUSHROOMS; Bet you can't pick just one; Taste, texture will grow on you
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2005
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"Eeww! Mushrooms!"
How I love those words. They let me lean over the table, forage
around my children's plates and poke up the little morsels that are
causing them such distress.
I could, I guess, put them on only half the pizza or eliminate
them entirely from sauces or stir-fries.
But what fun would that be?
Those of us who love mushrooms love them like the stars.
When my husband and I order steaks, we make sure they're topped
with mushrooms and gobble the 'shrooms up first.
At Chinese restaurants, the straw mushrooms dance before our eyes
the way they did in Disney's "Fantasia."
Usually, we don't mind that the children don't like mushrooms.
When I wanted to start using more exotic ...