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Garbage Day post-eliminate waste to save $$!

With a little help from our household’s favorite trash can-Oscar!

I haven’t been doing too many daily posts lately, and one of the reasons is that once again, I am working on a new look for the blog and doing some behind the scenes work. One of those tasks is to make resource pages for you all that are actually useful. I am going to have a resource page just for repurposing items and compiling all of those posts in one place.

So while I’m working on that, here is a small recap of some of the previous garbage day posts on repurposing items.

Repurposing Fruit

Lunch Meat

Misc recipes

Garbage day & ID fraud

Ham

A neat alternative to meatless Fridays

If you follow meat-less Fridays, or well, meat less all the time, here is a cool alternative.

At The Mushroom Cap, 114 West State Street in Kennett Square, they’ve started offering pom pom mushrooms. They are an exotic. They are very cool to see. I haven’t tried them yet, but I’ve heard that just sauteed in olive oil, garlic and salt & pepper is good. I’m sure you could also do an internet search for recipes too. They are $10 a pound, which sounds high, but it’s really not. A quarter to a third of a pound, or $2-$3 is a perfect amount for a small family dinner, if accompanied with a pasta or something.

And, it’s morel season! This one I’m not as anxious to try. They certainly are not as visually appealing as the pom poms. But foodies love them and can’t wait until they have arrived. Please call 610.444.8484 to make sure that they are in the cooler before you come.

The store also always carries on a daily basis-shiitake, maitake, crimini, all sizes of whites, portabellas and ….I forget what else.

Is buying fresh mushrooms any better or different than grocery store mushrooms? Absolutely! Is fresh corn on the cob bought at the farm better than grocery store corn? Same principle. Many of the mushrooms were picked that morning, doesn’t get any fresher than that.

Locals: Mushroom sale!

Looking to beat the winter blahs? How about trying a new recipe with fresh mushrooms? Friday & Saturday, The Mushroom Cap in Kennett Square is offering fresh picked mushrooms-buttons, medium and large, for $0.99/lb. They also sell the exotics like maitake, shiitake and oysters. Most mornings, they are picked before dawn and delivered right to the store, they don’t get any fresher?

And pffftt to those who are asking why not just buy them in the grocery store. I won’t buy corn on the cob at the grocery store, mushrooms is sort of the same thing. They’re just fresher and so much better when they are fresh picked.

114 W State in Kennett, right on the main drag, stop in! Open Friday & Saturday 9:30-5.

And did you know more & more studies are emerging that mushrooms prevent breast & prostate cancer?