SPAGHETTI WITH WILD MUSHROOM SAUCE, CHICKEN AND AVOCADO

SO here we have a very quaint looking basket of wild mushrooms I picked near Norwich Prison. That should be a clue enough as to where I was foraging, it's got a typically nonsensical Norfolk name. Ok yeah so we have a few Boletes, some beautiful Orange Grisettes (which my most trusted mushroom book told me were poisonous. But they aren't actually. They're pretty fucking tasty!) and a nice parasol. This was the first time I've ever found Grisettes, and there were hundreds of them.

OH HOW PRETTY, THAT'S OBVIOUSLY EXACTLY HOW THE MUSHROOMS HAPPENED TO FALL ONTO MY CHOPPING BOARD. Boletes and Orange Grisettes.

Yeah. Slices of Mushrooms. Parasols at the back, Boletes round the edge and Grisettes in the middle.

More attempts at me taking arty photos of chopped up mushrooms. Congratulations.

The finished meal. Yeah looks a bit grey and rusty but it tasted incredible. The avocado and mushrooms worked so well together, but the spaghetti was a bit unnecessarily slimy with the sauce. Potatoes would have been a better choice.

Sooo now that Sam got to write about his beloved mushrooms, I'm left with the fun task of writing out the recipe.

I won't do amounts though for the solid ingredients, use as much as you like.

Ingredients:

Wild mushrooms (or if you're not as adventurous, you can go play-foraging in the supermarket, where the mushrooms grow in a plastic tub near the vegetables)

Quorn chicken pieces

Olive oil

Garlic (we used three cloves)

250ml chicken stock

250ml cream

1 tbs mustard

Pasta or spaghetti, whatever you like

Avocado(s)

1. Fry the chicken in some olive oil. Season it with salt and pepper.

2. Remove chicken from pan and replace with mushrooms and garlic.

3. Cook those mushrooms until they're just tender, but not too mushy

4. Add the stock, cream, mustard and chicken. Make sure it's boiling gently and let it reduce until it's thick enough.

5. In the meantime, cook the pasta.

6. Slice some avocado into smallish chunks.

7. When the pasta is done, toss it all together, et voila!

This is a good dish if you like really creamy pasta things. We decided we would have preferred it without the sauce, but it's your decision.