Mushroom Lovers Newsletter - Christmas Edition

Summer is almost here, and the Christmas festive season is just around the corner. As the weather warms up, we tend to eat differently and entertain more, but we all want to eat healthily (and keep the waistline under control). Try our summery mushroom recipes – deliciously easy and impressive when you are gathering family and friends.

Feast your eyes on these salads. Roasted Mushroom, Tomato & Cashew Salad; this recipe has superb texture, is loaded with flavour, and its festive colour combination makes it perfect for adding to a Christmas buffet or taking to a friend's barbecue. Another top choice is the Mushrooms & Antipasto Salad. This recipe teams firm, white button mushrooms with semi dried tomatoes, char-grilled eggplant and honey roasted cashews to make a scrumptious, crunchy mouth watering salad.

For a mushroom salad that is a meal in itself, you are going to want to try our Barbecued Mushroom & Lamb Salad. Loaded with flavour this recipe is a real winner and ideal for impressing family and friends.

A quick BBQ tip

Don't grease the BBQ plate until after it has been cleaned and pre-heated. Adding the oil too early will cause the oil to burn before the plate is hot enough to start cooking. The burnt oil will also taint the flavour of the food.

Cooking with
Mushroom videos

If you are one of those people who like to see how the experts do it first, then our Cooking with Mushrooms video series is just for you. Spend a couple of minutes with our celebrity chef, Janelle Bloom as she shows you how to whip up some real mushroom magic, with simple instructions on how to get the most out of each dish. Our featured recipe for this month is Cheesy Baked Mushrooms – so why wait. Let's get cooking with mushrooms!

Don't forget!

Mushroom Lovers have the chance to win an Everdure BBQ valued at $599, courtesy of the Mushroom Lovers Club. It takes just a few minutes to enter, and you could be cooking up your mushrooms on a new BBQ. And for Mushroom Lovers it simply does not get any better than that. Enter at Mushroom Lovers Club.

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Growers' Association

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Roasted mushroom, tomato and cashew salad

When it comes to celebrating Australia Day the barbecue certainly gets a good workout. So why not use the Christmas / New Year period to hone those barbecue skills in time for Australia Day. And when it comes to mushrooms on the barbecue, there's a range of delicious recipes to make you the star of any celebration.

Start the feast with some BBQ Mushroom & Bean Salad; add in some Mushrooms with Seared Salmon or perhaps some BBQ Flats with Basil & Hazelnuts and just wait for the compliments from your guests. If you want easy entertaining then look no further than mushrooms.

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