What would you have gotten at the Mushroom Festival?

Kennett Square, PA claims to be the mushroom capital of the US.

No hallucinogenics, but yesterday the booths there did offer:
Sauteed mushrooms
Pickled mushrooms
Mushroom salad
Mushroom pizza
Portabello wraps
Portabello "burgers"
Chicken cheese steaks with mushrooms
Regular philly cheese steaks with mushrooms
Beer-battered mushrooms
Fried breaded mushrooms/mushroom fritters (don't know the difference, I only had the former)
Mushroom and brie crepes
Mushoom egg rolls
An entire tent full of stations serving different mushroom soups, all delicious
T-shirts that said "Shitake Happens"

As someone whose favorite food is mushrooms, I was in culinary heaven. My friend watches Top Chef, and got to meet and talk to Paula and Miguel, but we didn't get to see them cooking mushrooms, sadly.

What would you have ordered?

Mushroom and brie crepes
Mushoom egg rolls
An entire tent full of stations serving different mushroom soups, all delicious

I love mushrooms, though I'd never go hunting for wild mushrooms on my own. I remember one of Jamie Oliver's "Jamie at Home" shows where he went picking wild mushrooms with a guide. I have a good book on them, though the website Fungi Perfecti is easier to search ;)

When I still shopped at Whole Foods, I was missing the fact that they weren't carrying either oyster or chantrelle mushrooms. I tried both of those varieties in recent years and loved their flavors over "normal" mushrooms.

So, what were your favorite choices? :)

or I would have had the crepes. I heard the eggrolls were great, too.

Beer battered mushrooms to start, followed by the mushroom and brie crepes, and if I was still hungry I would have taken the plunge for a regular Philly cheese steak with mushrooms. Mmmm. Sounds delish.

Too bad.

They are rare to find after Mother's Day.

The few times I've seen them recently in a grocery store they have been shriveled and nasty. They reminded me of an old Carlin skit - "Those are rats' assholes, Don" - "Sure make a hell of a fondue!"

a local vegetarian restaurant sells one that is out of this world!

Mushrooms are magnificent and nobody in my family eats them, so I do without.

Dude its a MUSHROOM FESTIVAL

btw, I had exactly the same initial reaction as you did

I reviewed the plot online, and it sounds vaguely familiar, yet not.
Like so much in 1968.

And probably some of the soup. I love mushrooms.:9

I'm thinking they were too hard to mass-produce or maybe wouldn't hold up in the heat....

Yummy

At least that's what the sign says when I drive thru the town. And btw, you could be driving blind thru Avondale and you know they grow mushrooms

Champignones

Chantrelles

Yum!

The beer batter and fried breaded mushrooms (provided they had the appropriate dipping sauce - a horseradish not a ranch!) and probably the sauteed, as well. And egg rolls and pizza.

Hell! I love mushrooms. I should have just said all of the above. :rofl:

shocking, huh? Just salt and pepper. did take some of the fun out of it.

that I went back and ordered it again. So I would have to say sauteed. Yummy. I can't wait to go and sautee some mushroom and have it again (it was only on a temp menu at the restaurant so I can't order it anymore). Funny I always though of mushrooms as pretty tasteless until now. I'm a convert.

Of course, I would have expected an entirely different menu, most likely an illegal one.

Shrooms
Awesome Shrooms
Dude! Shrooms
Fuckin A Shrooms
and the ever famous, You-have-got-to-be-kidding-me!!!???!!! Shrooms!!!!???!!!.

I probably would have left quite sad.

That or the SO didn't really want to go. He works for Modern Mushroom so we get all the shrooms we want. Not sure anyone could beat his creamed mushrooms or his stuffed portabellas.

Good choice.

It was hot and crowded (I think since Saturday sort of rained out, they had two days' worth of crowds in one day).

You might have enjoyed the soup tent - all variations on the same theme, all but one were good.

watching two generators being moved on the long slow slog to TMI for Exelon. It was pretty interesting and drew a crowd. It is heading to Willow Street by way of Rt. 272 now. More photos here if you are interested. Not sure how close it will get to you but it was worth the wait to watch them if you get a chance.

"Shitake Happens"

I would also have tried:
different mushroom soups
Mushroom and brie crepes
Pickled mushrooms
and
Mushroom salad

except maybe the philly cheese steaks.... I always find them to be a bit heavy. They're tasty, but heavy.

Plus around here, they're available all the time, everywhere. Whereas a mushroom crepe is harder to find, especially since the long-ago demise of The Magic Pan restaurants.

then definitely the philly cheese steak. According to my friends from PA, it is impossible to find authentic cheese steak sandwiches in south TX.

There are some 'shrooms I can tolerate on food, but I generally dislike them.