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Maggi Young

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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #105 on: November 02, 2009, 08:22:55 PM »
Oh, you have bought the truffle as a treat? I thought for sure that Barbara had tracked it down... perhaps with the help of Felix, a truffle cat?!  ;) :)
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #106 on: November 02, 2009, 08:32:10 PM »
Maggi ,

I'm not so keen for the truffle ( I like more those maked from Choclate )....

The truffle in now in a glass ...together with 3 eggs .....after some days they had the same smell like the truffle and it will give "Scrambled eggs with truffle" ....

and on next day it will served "Pasta con Tartuffo"  8)
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #107 on: November 02, 2009, 08:44:02 PM »
Hans, you are a man after my own heart... I am not very impressed by truffle fungi myself.... but I do understand that for those with the correct palate, these are a great gourmet treat.
Perhaps I am too much of a peasant... I love chanterelles!
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #108 on: November 02, 2009, 08:49:37 PM »
Maggi ,

you must smell a white truffle -thats very impressiv !!!

black one are harmless against the white one  :o :o :o
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #109 on: November 02, 2009, 08:53:23 PM »
We've had white truffle, Hans.... from dinner a friend with lots of money! Tiny amounts on a dish.... I didn't like it!
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #110 on: November 02, 2009, 08:56:28 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D

same for me !
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #111 on: November 02, 2009, 09:46:48 PM »
All you rich people.... I don't think I've ever tried Truffle, although I vaguely recalling smelling one once.  Closest I've ever been.  Seen lots of them used on cooking shows though.  ;D

I imagine that this topic should be added to lots in the next while by our members from Scotland.  I reckon you guys should all have lots of unusual fungus appearing over the next while.  No Tinea pictures though, please.  ::)

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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #112 on: November 03, 2009, 05:18:55 PM »
Oh Hans my congratulations!

I've never tried truffle just heard about it's taste, smell and cost. They are not popular here. I can't imagine how much could it cost. One kind of truffle could be found in Moscow area forests but nobody knows how to find them.
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #113 on: November 03, 2009, 05:24:22 PM »
What does truffle smell like?
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #114 on: November 03, 2009, 06:49:12 PM »
Thank you Olga  :D

Mark : it is really difficould to say ....but if you have one time testet it you will never forget  :-\
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #115 on: November 03, 2009, 07:27:22 PM »
Anyone tried growing truffles? There are a couple of companies selling trees (Hazel and Oak) inoculated with Summer and/or black truffles. I have a friend in Norway who planted inoculated Hazel trees a couple of years ago.

http://www.tree2mydoor.com/products/product_details.asp?productid=207
http://www.plantationsystems.com/shop
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #116 on: November 03, 2009, 07:40:40 PM »
Stephen :

I know that in South of France people have also tried this way ....but  nobody knows if they really succsessfully ...if they succsessfully so the price would fall.....

In some area are big woods ( with oak ) - all is protectet with fences .....and I think it is not good to go inside  ::)
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #117 on: November 03, 2009, 07:57:18 PM »
Stephen..... I've heard about the innoculated treees....I think that there is a wait of around eight years for the truffles to begin fruiting...... I'd be awfully thin by that time! :P


Mark..... to my mind, the truffles do not smell as they taste.... probably just as well..... the smell of the white was very odd.... kind of musky animal scent and damp wood and whiffy vegetables ..... the black was less off-putting! The taste is more like "essence of mushroom" mixed with something slightly "off"! You can tell I wasn't impressed! ::)
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #118 on: November 03, 2009, 07:59:44 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #119 on: November 03, 2009, 08:05:50 PM »
Maggi, NZ truffiere owners now export to the northern hemisphere out of the northern season. I believe they get around $3000 a kilo for the black truffle. These are all grown on innoculated trees, mostly oak and hazel I think.

Paul, there was a small piece of black Perigord truffle in Otto's fridge when you and I were there last year. In the finish we totally forgot about it (quelle horreur!) so it probably went slimy and stinky. What a terrible waste >:(
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