It is now week two of both July and Mushroom Mania and your intrepid correspondent is very happy to be pursuing another magnificent mushroom meal. Of course, I don’t just do this because mushrooms taste divine and lend themselves so well to a wide variety of culinary uses, but also because they are so very good for me too. Mushrooms are a great source of fibre, the minerals selenium and copper, provide more than a quarter of the vitamins riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid and biotin and are one of the highest known antioxidant foods in the world. Further, they are virtually fat-free, low in sodium and have now been found to play an active role in lowering cholesterol – why on earth wouldn’t you eat them!
A hunt through the Mushroom Mania website list of participating hotels and restaurants led me down Anzac Highway to The Highway, a spot I haven’t been to for way too many years – and, wow, has it changed! An amazing facelift has rendered it unrecognisable (to me, at least) and now with an excellent – and very busy – dining room. Their chef, Nicholas Finn, has embraced Mushroom Mania month wholeheartedly and has a special ‘shroomy menu which changes weekly during July.
A brie girl from way back, I opted for the Brie and Portobello pizza (one of a couple of dishes that will be available for all of Mushroom Month) and was no less satisfied with my choice. Served on a tasty pesto base with generous slices of both the brie and portobello mushrooms, the pizza is finished with a surprising frizzle of deep-fried enoki mushrooms. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to deep-fry these tasty little morsels, but I am very pleased that it occurred to Nicholas and, once again, this touch nudged the dish just up and out of the ordinary.
Prices – $$-$
The Highway
290 Anzac Highway, Plympton.
Ph 8297 8155
Lambs’ Ears and Honey dined with the compliments of Mushroom Growers Australia as part of Mushroom Mania Month.
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Wow, a whole mushroom menu – how lucky! That pizza looks great!
Sounds like you’re making the most of mushroom month!
There is something about croquettes that I absolutely love. I never get to eat them…I never make them, and yet I love them! And give me a mushroomy one any day of the week.
If only I lived closer – gorgeous looking restaurant.
I like the look of the croquettes, nice and crisp looking, but the duck ravioli sounds delicious!
I love the idea of mushroom month! Adore the fungi, wish I could find a clever way to grow them! Although I doubt that the way I like to eat them – sauteed in butter – is particularly healthy… 😉
Mushie Month rocks, oh how I adore that pizza, looks amazing. 🙂 The Rav is lovely too. Mmmmmm. I never thought I’d digthe fungi as much as I do, I remember shoveling them behind the lounge cushions as a child to avoid eating them. 🙂