The edible kind!
In terms of edible fungus mushrooms specifically refer to ones with a gilled cap, so this week morel and truffleheads can LOG OFF 
I just really love mushrooms, so I decided to talk about 'em and what they’re like to eat. I’m gonna try and have a little snippet about a different edible mushroom each day. As mushrooms can be used as meat substitutes - blanket cw on each of the little spoilered sections for meat discussion; I’ll only be talking about meat in terms of what mushrooms can replace, but I figure better be cautious about it y’kno?
Also, some of the mushrooms discussed will be ones that are considered forageable. this is not in any way shape or form a guide to what wild mushrooms you can eat please do not eat random mushrooms based off of one (1) picture a random cat showed you
Agaricus Bisporus
A. Bisporus is the most commonly cultivated and eaten mushroom, and is harvested in a few different ways that are sold under different names.
Often times it is sold before maturation, with white ones referred to as Button or White Mushrooms and brown ones often referred to as Cremini or Baby Bella. At full maturation, caps can reach nearly 15cm (6in) in diameter and are sold most commonly as Portobello mushrooms.
This mushroom is honestly a great general purpose one. button mushrooms are very unabtrusive flavourwise but still provide a nice meaty texture, and baby bella and portobellos have the same texture with a rich umami flavour while still not being overpowering in a dish. I love to use baby bellas in pastas and stews. portobello caps have a lot of versatility as the anchor of a dish. They’re wonderful grilled and imo act as a great substitute for beef, i’ve made veggie tacos with them and love having a “hamburger” that’s just a full ass mushroom cap instead of a meat patty. They’re also great for stuffing, and removing the gills is honestly pretty easy and only requires a small spoon.
Pleurotus Ostreatus
The oyster mushroom
Another commonly cultivated one, the oyster mushroom has a milder flavour compared to portabellos and when I’ve tried it also had a less dense texture while being slightly chewier. Many places I’ve found online describe oyster mushroom to have an anise-like flavour to them, the herb that flavours black liccorice, but I think that gives a false impression as oyster mushrooms don’t have a very strong flavour at all.
I’ve heard it suggested that oyster mushrooms can be used in place of any recipe that would use shredded chicken or pork, and I was actually able to pick some up recently and can confirm yeah, texture wise the caps can very much fulfill that role and they even kind of look similar.
What I found really interesting about them is their stipes. The ones I got were clustered with the stipes meeting sort of at the base, and at that junction I found that the flavour was slightly stronger and had a chewy texture almost like calamari that I really enjoyed
Cantharellus Formosus
The Pacific Golden Chanterelle
A mushroom I haven’t had the chance to eat, the Pacific Golden Chanterelle has a meaty texture and mild flavour with nutty, fruity, and peppery notes. It’s most commonly sauteed with garlic and onions or used as a base in mushroom cream sauces, it’s not as widespread or commercially available as portobello or oyster mushrooms but is still cultivated in its native Pacific Northwest of North America and can sometimes be found in markets in the PNW.
Fistulina Hepatica
This is a weird one, and perhaps a little morbid
Fistulina Hepatica is commonly know as the Beefsteak or Tongue mushroom. This mushroom can grow to be as large as 30 centimetres (12in) across and 6cm (2.25in) thick, and has an appearance and consistency resembling raw meat. Although the exterior (to my eye at least) is more mushroom than anything, its cross-section looks like muscle marbled with fat and unusually for a mushroom it has a juice that’s deep red in colour and looks similar to blood.
Beefsteak mushrooms, while edible, typically require special preparation. Their juice is quite acidic, giving it a strong sour flavour and the possibility of causing stomach distress. To counteract this beefsteaks can be soak overnight to draw out the juice, although they’ll still maintain a sour flavour.
Beefsteak Mushrooms are not typically cultivated for sale, possibly due to causing Brown Rot on the trees it grows on making it inconvenient for mass production, but it’s possible to find kits online to to cultivate your own
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Well, I tried to tell management about potential hipaa violations and they won’t listen. So thats fun.
I broke up with my girlfriend, and its the best breakup I think ive ever had.
I’m incredibly dysphoric and want to take a knife to parts of me. Its really fucking hard, I have to wait like 5 years for bottom surgery. I can’t wait that long. I wish they would just learn how to grow a vulva in a petri dish and then sew it onto me and hook up the nerves with robots all automated like, pleas put me on the assembly line
except with trans symbol not nuke symbol. I would keep the head of my current stuff, just like idk put it behind the petri grown clit or smth so I’m extra sensitive. Bonus points if they can grow a vaginal canal but if not theres always ppt.I keep waiting for the mythical day I’m not dysphoric about that part of myself. But I dont think its coming. The best days are the ones where I’m less aware. Or the ones where I’m a bit altered. But its always there. Always waiting for me to go to bed and strip down. Always ready to make me feel… I dont even know how to describe the feeling. Its dysphoria. Literal. Like the Greek meaning of the word. Unbearable. I just want it to be over, and for this part of me to be gone. Or even if it was smaller. I hate when my tuck slips cause I’m too fucking big for all the tucking panties and the like and nothing stays put. I hate when I can feel it or am.at all aware of it. Its just… Idk. Its not painful. Its just existential despair.
rant
I’m so fuckin tired of total right wing cultural victory (so are the right wing cuz they can’t ever be happy and it’s more and more difficult for them to maintain the kayfabe of counterculture)
Woke 1 was crazy, be normal, be normal, wokescolds, HR coded, etc etc etc idk the variations are endless u see it even on this fuckin website (((semi)-semi)-semi)-semi-regularly (as opposed to regularly every else) which is why I’m posting it here tbh, I just don’t have the energy rn to argue with Chapo listener types
Even ppl I know have “leftist” principles or whatever the fuck just uncritically accept this framing (or are bullied into it) and have for a while now
Remember when the word “woke” was considered ridiculous nonsense? Dawg ppl don’t even claim ironic use anymore, I certainly don’t, everyone is just fuckin using it as intended
U know why woke ran out of steam and people consider “wokeness” to be laughable or pathetic? Cuz everyone with any significant power was using it rhetorically and performatively to signal being “left” without actually having to do fucking anything other than intervene in the sphere of culture
Woke with actual power behind it is just Cultural Revolution
and already I can hear the right wingers and (what’s the antonym of ultra? Moderate? Marginal?) marginal leftists in my head going off about the excesses and crimes or whatever of the GPCR but I don’t even care rn cuz although I would prolly defend it if pressed (I have read some but not nearly enough to speak on it seriously*) I’m not even doing that rn, I just think it’s inevitable for a socialist movement in a deeply reactionary society to have to have one and if u don’t your movement will prolly self-destruct*Also if u have Cultural Revolution reading recs I would love for u to share them <3
STORYㅤI will make myself a precious stone. Everyone will want me, everyone will think I’m valuable when they see me. They won’t have a choice.
spoilering this for internalized transphobia, even though I vehemently disagree, because I don’t want the mod team on my ass
dysphoria definitely though
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I just wish I was cis. I can’t do this. I can’t deal with what testosterone did to me. I can’t deal with being other. I can’t deal the the persistent, constant transphobia from everyone and everything.
This is one of the worst curses I could have gotten and it has ruined everything.
dying, dysphoria
When I think about it, its just so disappointing. So many things I have wanted to do and learn and experience and be. You know, and this is it. This is what my life has been. Its hard to even remember a lot of years.
Apparently this is the thing. What’s been causing all this pain. I need to be a woman. To look and sound and be that.
Its all so disappointing. This is factually it.
I have a massive maladaptive daydreaming problem. Reality is too painful. I hate my parents for bringing me here. Life is cruel suffering.
8 out of 8 of the last years have not been worth living. This year comes the closest, only because of Sodium. Otherwise it was been bitterly disappointing. I’m in my new state. My blue state. A city even. But what does it matter with the dysphoria. What does any of this matter.
You all, well at least a few of you, have seen the last 3 years of my life. Trust me it was not better before this. Does this really seem like a life worth being here for. My actual life. Not what I might fantasize about or want or whatever. The actual reality is awful.
I still have to figure out my healthcare. It feels so pointless though.
I wanted to get some things done today. Instead, parts of my brain started arguing with each other, I lied down and spasmed for a bit occasionally mentally saying what a part of my brain was saying, then became super tired out of nowhere and passed out for several hours.
Even though it’s a male suit I look awesome. Not too terrible a wedding yea
Went out looking at the apartments today :)
It will probably be a few months before I can move in. I’ll apply soon. Honestly if I can get it secured and then have to wait, its not the worst thing ever, more saving. Happy with pretty much everything about it. Not sure if they’ll let me have my snake (in which case, I can put him in a tub under my bed. Just not my favorite thing, I’d rather have him on display). And I wish the fridge was bigger. Kitchen in general is really small. But, the space is a good size for me other then that. My dad suggested a mini freezer which is definitely a good idea.
I just need to do thing I just have to keep myself busy I just have to occupy my mind I just have to keep swimming I just have to get more things done in a day I just have to do more errands I just have to accomplish more tasks I just need to keep myself busy I just need to keep myself busy I just need to keep myself busy
