For the September meeting the club held its annual cooking demonstration.This year Kate Lasky & Tomasz Skowronski from the under construction  Eastern European Kitchen “APTEKA” showed us how to make Polish saurkraut and mushroom pierogies. And they were amazing! When club members with eastern European family roots tell you that this is the best pierogi they have ever eaten you know its something special. There was a smoky jalapeno sauce/vinaigrette that went with the pierogies that was sublime.  We went “high tech” with a top down view of the action projected on to the wall behind the cooks.

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We wish Kate & Tomasz speedy progress for the build out of APTEKA and look forward to visiting them when it is finished. In the mean time you can sample some of their food at a Pierogi Night.  APTEKA will be located at 4606 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh.

The rain brought out quite a few mushrooms with a mixture of autumn mushrooms and boletes – sorry no pictures I was too busy eating pierogies.

Species list entered by La Monte Yarroll.

List of species brought into the September 2015 Meeting:

[icon style=”camera”] Agaricus campestris (Meadow Mushroom / Field Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita bisporigera (Destroying Angel),
[icon style=”camera”] Armillaria tabescens (Ringless Honey Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus discolor (),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus fraternus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus frostii (Frost’s Bolete; Candy Apple Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus pallidoroseus (Bouillon Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus pallidus (Pallid Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus pseudosensibilis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Chalciporus piperatus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma applanatum (Artist’s Conk),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma lucidum (Ling Chi),
[icon style=”camera”] Gymnopus luxurians (),
[icon style=”camera”] Heteroporous biennis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Omphalotus illudens (Jack-o’-lantern),
[icon style=”camera”] Phyllotopsis nidulans (),
[icon style=”camera”] Piptoporus betulinus (Birch Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Pluteus cervinus (Deer mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Psathyrella velutina (),
[icon style=”camera”] Ramaria pusilla (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula cinerascens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma areolatum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Suillus americanus (American Slippery Jack; Chicken Fat Suillus)

Species not currently on clubs life list:
Coprinopsis truncorum