Auricularia auricula fungus growing wild on our farm: Wood Ear Mushroom. This is why we like eating them (Gnome likes them too…that’s because he is a wannabee Chinese). Both the snow ear and the wood ear fungi have the texture and bite of soft and succulent ligamentous tissue…again, you have to be Asian to appreciate this. Again, this one is used in soups and stews.
The next one is another very popular Chinese fungus called “wood ear.” This is another “must have” in the Asian kitchen cupboard. It looks like this: Dehydrated Snow Ear Mushroom. You can buy this mushroom in the dehydrated form in Asian supermarkets. Tremella fuciformis growing on a dead branch on our farm it is slowly getting bigger day by day: Snow Ear Fungus. Wiki states that it is cooked in sweet dishes…I have never heard of it being cooked in this way. It is usually used in soups (pork soup in my household). If you ever find yourself in a Chinese household, you will be sure to find a packet of this dehydrated fungus secreted in their food cupboard. Yes, even I know this one because it is so popular in Asian cookery. This one is known as “snow ear” or “silver ear” fungus in Chinese.
The wonderful thing is that I can harvest them fresh in my own backyard rather than buying the dehydrated form from China via container transportation to the little known country of Belize. Hi Everyone! More wild mushrooms in Belize and we haven’t even stepped outside our farm! I have called these mushrooms “Chinese” because they are eaten mostly in Asian cuisine and they are commercially cultivated for this reason.
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