Oregon White Truffles

[theprunetang]

I am kind of a mushroom geek and well..........a pretty damned big foodie. So, truffles kind of fit both bills. To me, they are king of the culinary world.

Anyways, I used to have a few spots to find them when I lived in southern Oregon, but haven't had much luck in the Portland area. However, today I found a spot. I looked for about an hour and found about a half pound! I will definitely be going back often!

Anybody have any favorite truffle recipes or ideas? I am going to need to find some way to use all of these............

 

[3RA1N1AC]

i used to pick matsutakes when i lived in california when the buyers were in town, could make a few hundred bucks easy in a day

they bought the closed ones for the most money, so we would keep the ones that had opened and make a crazy mushroom potluck feast that night, good stuff

a typical truffle recipe would be risotto or shaved on pasta (or in mac and cheese yumm) , bean salad maybe?

i always liked wild mushrooms on my eggs in the morning

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I ate at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon a few weeks ago, they had an incredible onion/bacon/quail egg/asparagus tart that had a white truffle supplement on my menu. I didn't get the white truffle on it (+$30!!!!), but it would have been incredible with it.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

roast a chicken. mash some potatoes.

 

[theprunetang]

I plan on a couple of epic dishes like you mentioned El Presedente. After that, I will probably turn the rest into truffle butter. And then I am going back to get more in about 2 weeks. This is going to be a delicious winter. Especially good since I am the official cheese monger at my work. This is going to be fun. Thinking truffle butter christmas presents all across the board.

 

[theprunetang]

I ate at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon a few weeks ago, they had an incredible onion/bacon/quail egg/asparagus tart that had a white truffle supplement on my menu. I didn't get the white truffle on it (+$30!!!!), but it would have been incredible with it.

By the way..... I really want to eat that. Big time.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

the smoked bacon really made it. really fucking balanced.

 

[theprunetang]

the smoked bacon really made it. really fucking balanced.

Hmmm.... Thinking about cutting up some Speck tomorrow and bringing it home. Speck is like a smoked and lightly seasoned Prosciutto. I think this has to happen.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

i wish i actually cooked more. it'd be good to balance everything out. bacon is salty and truffles have that flavor, something mild like an egg really makes it come together.