TV personality and celebrity Chef Ed Baines has produced a series of videos for the Mushroom Bureau demonstrating how to get the most from cooking with mushrooms.

Ed Baines cooking with Mushrooms

Though often overlooked, there is a particular method for cooking mushrooms to ensure that they taste their very best and it has become Ed’s mission to demonstrate how best to work with this unique and versatile ingredient.

The short video clips – which can be viewed for free – show how to properly cook and prepare Mushrooms, using Mushrooms on toast as the perfect example; Step-by-step demonstrations of Ed cooking his mushroom inspired dishes, including Chicken and Mushroom Casserole and his Mushroom and Ricotta Filo Bake. There’s also a recoded Q&A session, with Ed answering common queries about cooking with mushrooms.

Ed Baines said: “Mushrooms are a truly unique ingredient in cookery, the huge range of types and flavours they give is impressive. The way you can use mushrooms not only as an ingredient but also as the centre of interest for dishes makes them stand out.”

The videos are perfect for those looking to learn or perfect their cooking skills. And the use of technology now means you can now watch the YouTube videos on your phone whilst cooking along with Ed, as he advises you on how to prepare your dishes with style and ease.

Mushrooms offer a variety of health benefits:
1.   Mushrooms are a natural source of B vitamins and minerals, with an 80g serving counting as one of your 5-a-day.
2.  Mushrooms are a natural source of selenium which is part of the body’s antioxidant defence system.
3. They are naturally low in calories and fat.
4. They are a good source of vitamin B5 which works in the body to help release energy from the food we eat.

More information

More to Mushrooms YouTube channel.

The Mushroom Bureau - Responsible for the generic publicity of all fresh cultivated mushrooms sold in Britain.

Mushrooms Make Sense is an informative and fun website run by the Mushroom Bureau.

The Mushroom Bureau funding members are made up from mushroom growers and associated trades in the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe.  They are responsible for the general publicity of all fresh cultivated mushrooms sold in Britain.

Mushrooms Make Sense home page

This easy to navigate and fun website offers everything you need to know about cultivated mushrooms combined with some fantastic recipe videos from Loveable chef Gino D’Acampo.

If you are looking for great mushroom recipes, then the Mushrooms Make Sense site is perfect.  There are clear instructions and mouthwatering images for a whole variety of mushroom dishes, including soups, risottos and much more.

Latest news from the world of mushrooms, includes scientific studies into nutritional aspects of mushrooms and their potential role in weight loss diets as well as their ability to help fight against cancers.

Learn about different members of the cultivated mushroom family. From the well know white mushrooms through to brown, portabello, oyster, shitake, enoki and buna-shimeji.

Mushrooms Make Sense has an informative section on the health benefits of mushrooms which are full of healthy vitamins and minerals, including a high content of vitamin C and fibre.

The website could benefit from a search function and would definitely keep people’s interest if there were a newsletter or e.mail sign up or an RSS feed.

More information

Visit The Mushrooms Make Sense website.

Wild Mushrooms Online is a great website for fungi lovers and wild food foragers. It has become one of the largest in the UK for wild mushroom information.

Some of the topics covered include;

• Learn how to find, identify and pick wild mushrooms.
• Recipes for wild mushrooms.
• How to grow your own mushrooms.
• Information on buying dried mushrooms

The aim is to populate the site with fungi information from all over the world but a with a focus on mushrooms of the UK, it is an excellent resource for British Foragers.

A new Meet other Foragers section allows you can meet and communicate with other people who want to have a forgaing companion. It is always a very good idea to team up as you find more and can share the fun of identification. It also make a great day out with new friends.

Wild Mushrooms Online website

Based on Roger Phillips seminal work ‘Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain and Europe’ and the similar book published on the mushrooms and Fungi of North America.

Roger’s twenty-year study will make his site the most complete collection of photographs and mushroom information from both sides of the Atlantic ever assembled.

With over 3000 images to help you identify and learn more about the mushrooms of Europe and North America!

User friendly searchable index by name, or image.