Monday, 26 December 2022

Oyster Mushrooms

Cultivated Oyster mushrooms, Indre et Loire, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Guanglai Zhang uses a Japanese technique for cultivating his mushrooms, unique in France.

At the fungi exhibition in Sainte Maure de Touraine in November one of the contributors was Guanglai Zhang who runs Bio-champi, a company producing fungi for Chinese traditional medicine and supplements, from the former army base at Nouatre. At the end of the event he gave me about a kilo of oyster mushrooms Pleurotus sp. I used them in a mushroom and chard quiche, braised chicken with leeks and mushrooms and a mushroom ragout. Simon used some in a beef and black bean stir-fry.

Bio-champi at a fungi exhibition, Indre et Loire, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Guanglai Khang talking to some exhibition visitors about Bio-champi.

Cultivated oyster mushrooms, Indre et Loire, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Cultivated oyster mushroom rosettes from Bio-champi.

Cooking cultivated oyster mushrooms. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Oyster mushrooms being cooked for ragout.


Homemade mushroom and chard quiche. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Homemade mushroom and chard quiche.

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