Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> Now, to be fair about it, the mushrooms will cook on top of the stove
> for enough time to disarm anything nasty, but still. . . . it's a bad
> example. I gotta say this is the first time I've ever been glad I
> WASN'T invited to her house for dinner on Christmas Eve.


Yeow. Heating will disarm bacterial stuff, but some stuff produces
chemical toxins that aren't "cured" by heating.

>
> BTW, I'll be using dried mushrooms from my cousins in Slovakia and some
> dried porcinis I bought in Italy three years ago. They're rehydrating
> now. :-) Mama would be proud.
>

Yes, she would, but then I suspect she'd be proud of you 24/7/365.

Next time you go to Costco look for their dried mushrooms (near the
produce.) They come in quite a large jar. If you use dried mushrooms
often, they are a good buy.

gloria p