{"id":22253,"date":"2026-04-13T19:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22253"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:57:52","slug":"daily_4058_-_oyster_mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/04\/13\/daily_4058_-_oyster_mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4058 &#8211; oyster mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4058_mushrooms_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bought oyster mushrooms for dinner today. Mostly the supermarkets here sell button mushrooms\/common mushrooms, which for some reason are called <i>champinjon<\/i> in Swedish, but today there were locally-grown oyster mushrooms at a good price. I&#8217;ve eaten them before but usually &#8220;diluted&#8221; with the cheaper common mushrooms, and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever cooked or prepared them myself.<\/p>\n<p>The body, the core lump of it, was surprisingly dense and firm. I was reminded of the fact that mushrooms, while common in vegetarian cooking, are not actually vegetables but a kingdom of their own, perhaps even closer to animals than to plants. But they don&#8217;t have anything that I recognize as consciousness so I eat them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4058_mushrooms_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought oyster mushrooms for dinner today. Mostly the supermarkets here sell button mushrooms\/common mushrooms, which for some reason are called champinjon in Swedish, but today there were locally-grown oyster mushrooms at a good price. I&#8217;ve eaten them before but usually &#8220;diluted&#8221; with the cheaper common mushrooms, and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever cooked or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22256,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions\/22256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}