Mushroom Powder

And its multifarious uses! I adore mushrooms.  I love shiitakes stir-fried with strips of flank steak, I love the earthy funk of fresh morels in cream sauce, I love porcini-and-pea risotto – I even love the unjustly-maligned white button mushroom (which is, you may not be aware, the exact same thing as a brown crimini

The Shroom

Or, “You’re Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!” Butter. (What?  Oh.  You’re making a reference to a dumb movie?  Okay, cool.) Oh-my-god that movie’s so magnificently stupid. ANYWAY.  Those of you whom I have not yet alienated: hello!  By some stroke of fortune for me, and a stroke of misfortune for him, my roommate David’s brother was