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A little local delicacy

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arnoldb:
My sister's visiting me from Northern Namibia, and she brought along two fine examples of a local delicacy.

It's called Omajova - or in English an "Ant Hill Mushroom", as they only grow on certain types of ant hills and are extremely seasonal, but a huge treat  :ddb: :ddb:

This is one of them - they get a lot bigger than this, but I'm happy:


I just slice up the head into nice chunks, and fry it in a LOT of butter and olive oil with a tiny pinch of salt till there are some golden edges visible:

No Michealan stars there - just pure flavour, and that lot will get eaten as-is  :ddb: :ddb:.

The stem gets chopped up and fried off lightly with onions, and frozen in portions; gives instant starters for "mushroom & onion" sauces or added to stews its great.

I always have a chuckle when I see TV chefs say they add a "couple" of "beefy" mushrooms to some dish  :lol: :lol: :lol:

 :beer:, Arnold

foozer:
Now I'm Hungry again, those look so good   


Robert

mklotz:
If those are the toadstools I don't even want to think how big the toads are.   :bugeye:

Joe d:

--- Quote from: arnoldb on January 26, 2011, 02:41:25 PM ---
The stem gets chopped up and fried off lightly with onions, and frozen in portions; gives instant starters for "mushroom & onion" sauces


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Sooooo.... whip up a batch of sauce, thaw out some of your secret stash of wildebeast & boerwors, start the fire,
and we'll all be over for the Braai... :clap: :clap:

Enjoy!

Joe

krv3000:
 so its not a majic mushroom  :)

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