On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:44, Thomas Bridgeland wrote: >Just wondering how much people eat mushrooms. I probably have some four >or five times a week, several different kinds. Well, Tom, you're in Japan, so I guess you'd have a good variety of fresh 'mushies' readily available. I have the largest I can buy (about 10-15cm diameter) and the oldest fresh mushrooms raw in my salads - about 3-4 times a week. I never wash or peel them, just cut them up and toss them into the salad bowl. I see scraps of horse manure on them, but no problems yet. These are about $AU6.00kg here at the moment. Occasionally I slice them fairly thin and mix them in an omelette. For a while I was having raw shiitake mushrooms for variety, but they were four times the price. Delightful flavour; a real treat. There are lots of other varieties in our greengrocer's, but most taste pretty much like the ordinary field mushrooms apart from a few others that simply taste musty to me. Nutritionally, mushrooms seem to be of negligible significance, but I assume they are so different from other foods that the variety will do me good. Keith