Cooking With Healing Mushrooms

Discover the healing power of mushrooms with this comprehensive guide to using fungus to nourish and heal your body.

Don’t fear the fungi! Mushrooms have been used to heal, nourish and nurture the body, mind and spirit for millennia. This book quickly and clearly details the healing properties of various mushrooms from the common button mushroom to exotic varieties like shiitake and enoki.

Luckily, you don’t need to be an herbalist, chef or mycologist to reap the benefits of delicious, nutritious mushrooms. This handy cookbook serves up 150 easy-to-make dishes that incorporate these adaptogen-rich superfoods into recipes that are equally tasty and medicinal, including:

• Creamy Morel and Onion Dip
• Enoki-Scallion Chickpea Fritters
• Chanterelle Toast with Ricotta
• Fajita Veggie-Stuffed Portobellos
• Maitake “Bacon”-Avocado Sandwiches
• Mango Lassi with Turmeric and Cordyceps
• Oyster Mushroom Philly Cheesesteak Potatoes
• Cherry-Chaga Cheesecake Smoothie
• Hen of the Woods Tacos

Stepfanie Romine is an author, health coach and yoga teacher. With degrees in French and journalism, Stepfanie has lived and cooked on three continents. She follows a plant-based diet (with plenty of medicinal mushrooms), and she specializes in natural health and wellness. She also worked as copywriter and recipe developer for an herbal supplements manufacturer. Stepfanie has co-authored three books, including The No Meat Athlete Cookbook (The Experiment, May 2017). She lives outside Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, Sam, and their three rescued cats. Find her online at www.TheFlexibleKitchen.com.