Mushroom Monday - Stir Fry

Here's some mushrooms I found yesterday for this #mushroommonday by @balticbadger

I found a big stash of oyster mushrooms on the side of a tree.

The whole tree had them growing up the side of it.

Plenty of them for a good meal.

This oyster dried out a bit with an interesting gill pattern.

This is the typical gill pattern.

I also found some amber jelly roll aka exidia recisa. I harvested this to dry for later use in a soup.

Next I scored a little batch of wood ear, this photo show how it starts out.

Eventually the little shrek ears start growing into bigger leafy shapes.

I like to use wood ear in various Asian meals.

With all this woodear and oysters I decided to make a stir fry.

I give all the harvested mushrooms a wash in salt water and rinse them a few times to get the bugs and bark off of them.

Then I sorted them out. The middle black pile is the amber jelly roll that will get dried for future use. The wood ear and oysters will go in the stir fry.

My stir fry recipe is pretty basic. I used bell pepper, onions, garlic, zucchini, chicken, carrots, oyster mushrooms, wood ear, shiitake and ginger. While all these cook in some olive oil I add some salt and cayenne pepper. Later I add an Asian brown sauce for flavor.

Here's the end result, not too photogenic. But it tasted good.

My fiance loved it and we ended up having no leftovers.

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