"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:57:05 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:00:32 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > > wrote:
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>> >> I used it to make mushroom sauce. Not slimy. I used the mixed ones
>> >> from
>> >> Costco.
>> >
>> > You powdered mixed dried mushrooms?
>> >
>> Yep! In the Magic Bullet. Not sure they even sell that kind any more.
>> They had been recalled some time ago. I think the last dried ones I saw
>> there were not the mix. Angela can now eat the cream of mushroom soup,
>> so I
>> just buy that. But I used to make my own. The grocery store dried ones
>> were sooo expensive. So I either bought the big Costco jug or I dried my
>> own when they were on sale. I think the mix gives a better flavor.
>
> I bought a huge container of freeze dried mixed dried mushrooms from
> Costco, but I think it was just a Christmas item. Do you have it
> regularly at yours? I love the grocery store's packet of dried "wild"
> mushrooms and don't mind spending money on it from time to time.

I actually haven't bought dried mushrooms for several years. Ours used to
stock the mixed dried all the time. Then there was that big recall. And
after that I saw one kind of dried mushroom there. That was really the last
time I looked.