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Stuffed Giant Puffball Recipe

Stuffed Giant Puffball
Many Moons have passed since I found my first decent patch of Giant Puffball's. I was out driving when, from the periphery of my vision, I caught a fleeting glimpse (blur) of pure angelic white, against the backdrop of a lush green field, I hit the brakes hard (after checking my rear view mirror of course), and I jumped out to peek over the wall of said field. What met my gaze nearly made me pee with excitement, approximately 20 GP's of varying sizes, ranging from golf ball to small child size. I picked half a dozen or so with the implicit intent that two of the medium size ones would be the stars of a fungi feast I was now planning to prepare for a group of friends. The recipe in mind was one I'd seen in the cult classic: Roger Phillips, Wild Food book. The 'Stuffed Giant Puffball' recipe - if you don't have a copy of the book is an absolute cracker and, it can be recreated with any filling of your choice. Since that epic day, I didn't write the recipe I created for the friends fungi feast as it I made it in the days prior to setting up Edible Leeds, before the 'look what I cooked last night' photo craze: my aversion to social media at that time also meant no photos were taken as proof. So, here is one of my takes on a Stuffed Giant Puffball. Recipe - http://edible-leeds.blogspot.co.uk/p/recipes_26.html
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