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Day 2: 12 Days of Father’s Day

Give a dad a mushroom and he can eat for a day, give a dad a Life Cykel Mushroom Box from the great fellas at Life Cykel and he can eat for many days :).

Wait a second, that is a great Father’s Day idea!

If you haven’t heard of them or read my blog posts where I reviewed their products, see here.

From their website (I love their ethos):

Life Cykel was created from the passion of two young…

Lorelle B’s Stuffed Mushrooms

I thought this entry into the Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box competition we just ran was worth sharing with all of you.

Lorelle B writes:

Ingredients:

4 large portabello mushrooms

8 slices of stale bread

2 Tbsp of plain flour

2 Tbsp of garlic chives

1/2 cup of grated parmesan

1 egg

1/2 cup grated cheese

1/2 tsp minced garlic

pinch of onion salt

squirt of lemon juice

oil for frying

2 Tbsp of…

Jon Anderson’s Swan River Prawn and Mushroom Linguine

Sending out a massive congratulations to Jonathan Anderson for winning Grow It, Catch It,  Cook It’s first ever competition. The amazing fellas at Life Cykel will be sending him out one of their Home Grown Mushroom Boxes so he can get cracking growing his own Oyster mushrooms.

‘Welchy’ chose this recipe entry as the winner because it completely captures everything that I am writing about on the…

You might recall that last week I harvested my first mushrooms from the starting side of my Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box (Day 12 Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box Side 1.

Since then I have:

taken the bag out and cut it on the other side

soaked it over night

put it back in the box with the unharvested visible in the window

placed it back in kitchen (out of direct sunlight) and

waited as patiently as I could :).

I can’t wait for my second crop.

Don’t forget about our competition to win one of these boxes (thanks to those who have already entered and to the generosity of the guys at Life Cykel) and see my other mushroom posts here.

Cheers,

  PK