Month: March 2015

Lion’s Mane

I joked recently that I wished third wave mushrooms was a thing in Berlin so that I could have access to a wider variety of wild and cultivated mushrooms. Seeing the exotic ones that are available in London made me envious. My envy heightened when Kristin and Sebastian gave me a cookbook titled Shrooms that has sections dedicated to mushrooms I‘ve never seen in person.

Well, yesterday, while visiting my favourite Saturday market, Boxhagener Platz, for the first time ages, I spotted a man selling mushrooms I’d never seen before, including ones that looks like cauliflower florets.

My hand for scale
My hand for scale

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Kimchi Chicken Stew

Our friends Mike and Morgan made an experimental batch of kimchi which I personally found lacking the crunch of previous batches. I pumped up its fizz and flavour by keeping it closed up tight in the fridge for a week, but it was still on the soft side.

What do you do with a jar of lovingly made, perfectly tasty, but slightly underwhelming kimchi? Make a stew! Kimchi stew was something I had heard of, but never had. The closest thing I’d had was a chicken version of gamjatang, from the Korean restaurant Core, which I occasionally crave.

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