Fresh chicken

[urbpan]

Behold the fruiting body of the tree parasite Laetiporus cincinnatus, almost luminous in its pink orange glory. This is one of at least two (probably more) polypore mushrooms that have the common name "chicken mushroom." When people ask me if it's edible I tell them, "Oh yes, it's one of our most sought-after edibles. I made myself very sick eating it once." Polypores have sturdy cell walls and need lots of cooking to soften them up into something that weak human intestines can deal with.

Comments

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

oh that's gorgeous!

i make a pasta dish with what i'd call sautee'd L sulphureus, which i imagine has been renamed or recombined as cincinnatus?

anyway, high heat and a little olive oil, and neither i nor my guests have had a problem digesting the stuff....

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

sulphureus is used for those that have a yellow spore-producing surface, while cincinnatus has a white spore-producing surface. I think high heat is the key! Someone told me "high heat for 20 minutes" after my experience.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

So you wouldn't recommend it?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

It comes VERY highly recommended. I just haven't had a positive experience with it yet.

[zinc-tart.livejournal.com]

This has to the most delicious photograph of fungi I have ever seen. They look like perfectly baked pastry before the glaze is painted on.

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

So, chicken is mushroom and turkey is dog?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

And Whitey is a chicken!