Christmas wish list

[maggiepie]

Susan, thanks for the explanation.

Paddy, thanks for your recipe.

Here's a link to the absolute best steak sandwich I have ever had.
Only thing I do differently is to cook a lot of mushrooms to mix with the onion.
I also use pieces of tenderloin for the steak as we buy a whole tenderloin, trim and cut up into steaks for the freezer.
The piece on the end always gets used for this, plus any other scraps from trimming the meat.
Not the fat though, there's enough butter in this to have your arteries tighten up in fright.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/marlboro_mans_f/

Seriously good.

 

[Neil]

You need to have Fresh Ceps, Boletus edulis, as the mushrooms.

[Lesley Cox]

John, what I want and can't have is the presence of one small brown and white dog. I must get over it. New back and knees would be great too and about as likely.

[Otto Fauser]

A bowl of fresh ( one can buy dried ones ) Porccini mushrooms -Boletus edulis . Unavailable here in Australia , as no one has succeeded in cultivating them from imported spores .

      Lesley do they grow wild in NZ ? or available as cultivated specimens ?

[Lesley Cox]

Boletus edulis and a few others are available imported and dried from speciality shops but I believe it also grows, and one or two other edibles in a few places, it's just a matter of knowing where and being able to identify them. Hagley Park in Christchurch has a population apparently and the Balmoral forest north of Chch. Landcare Research near Mosgiel has also been able to grow them and Dr Ian Hall who introduced the Perigord black truffle to NZ works with them as well. When I spoke to Ian about these a couple of years ago, he talked about the costs of getting consents for the introduction of new fungus species. Enough to make my very straight hair curl!

[Maggi Young]

This book seems a good one for those interested in seeds...... and with a gift budget of around £300 -£380   
Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora: The Carpathian Mountains Region (Hardcover)
by Vít Bojnanský (Author), Agáta Fargaová (Author)

Nearly one thousand pages, glossary, pictorial glossary, drawings, descriptions....   


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1402053614/sr=1-1/qid=1324133197/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1324133197&sr=1-1&seller=#reader_1402053614


Yes, I will be suggesting this to the Seed Ex Team!

[Darren]

I'd want a book covering the seeds of the whole globe for that price!

On the subject of books I'd really like Charles Craib's book on the Geophytic Pelargoniums. I nearly bought it when it was published and wish I had - the cheapest second hand copy I can find online is over £150....

[Hans J]

maybe I'm a little late ....

I'm looking in this time for Streptopus simplex :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8257.0

maybe Santa could help ?

it would be also nice if it come with delay ( after christmas ) 

[Anthony Darby]

Hope you get your wish Hans. We wouldn't want you to get a Streptopus complex!

[Hans J]

 

Anthony ...you are really good ! ( I like such jokes also much ...but my english is not well enough )

a short explanation :

"Streptopus" means "knot foot"

Best wishes
Hans

[Darren]

I'd like a fried mushroom sarnie for breakfast  

Some Christmas wishes do come true - Here is Susan's breakfast

[angie]

I'd like a fried mushroom sarnie for breakfast 

Some Christmas wishes do come true - Here is Susan's breakfast

Brilliant 

Angie

[Hoy]

I'd like a fried mushroom sarnie for breakfast  

Some Christmas wishes do come true - Here is Susan's breakfast

You need this kind of bread for mushrooms:



or this:

[Lori S.]

Wow, looks like that second loaf would "put hair on your chest"... as my dad used to say! 

[ArnoldT]

This is cute..