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  Jon Anderson’s Swan River Prawn and Mushroom Linguine

  Sending out a massive congratulations to Jonathan Anderson for winning Grow It, Catch It,  Cook It’s first ever competition. The amazing fellas at Life Cykel will be sending him out one of their Home Grown Mushroom Boxes so he can get cracking growing his own Oyster mushrooms.

  ‘Welchy’ chose this recipe entry as the winner because it completely captures everything that I am writing about on the blog. Fresh home grown ingredients harvested just before use, fresh seafood caught personally and locally with little to no transport footprint and supporting a small local operation’s passion. I hadn’t heard of Magpie Ridge Organics before but their Toodyay farm and products sound amazing. There is even a fishing tip buried in there too :).

  Jon writes:

  Ingredients:

  • 20 king prawns freshly caught from the Swan River
  • 3 large button mushrooms
  • 1 spring onion from the garden
  • 2 garlic cloves from the garden
  • 50-100 ml olive oil (highly recommend our mates fresh made – Magpie Ridge brand)
  • 15 g butter
  • 500 g linguine pasta (even better if home made – ask Davina how)
  • 4 leaves basil from the garden

  Method:

  1. Start boiling a large pot of water for the linguine.  While you wait chop up the garlic, spring onion and mushrooms.
  2. Remove the heads from the prawns but leave the shell on the tails (If you like to fish, keep the prawn heads for your berley mixture).
  3. Once the water has boiled add the linguine and than heat a frying pan on high for the prawn mixture.
  4. Once the frying pan is hot add the olive oil and let it heat up for 1-2 minutes.  Add the mushrooms, garlic and spring onion and reduce for about 3 minutes.
  5. Add the prawns and butter and cook for 3-4 minutes.
  6. Turn the heat off the frying pan and remove from hot area.
  7. Drain linguine and mix into the frying prawn sauce mixture.
  8. Add the chopped up fresh basil along with salt and pepper to your liking.  Freshly graded Parmesan is optional.

  Serving:

  Although unorthodox, my wife and I really enjoy Black Chook Shiraz bubbles to make it a bit of a celebration!

  

  Thanks from Life Cykel, ‘Welchy’ and I Jon,

  PK

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  June 23, 2016

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  Jon’s Swan River Prawn and Mushroom Linguine

  Sending out a massive congratulations to Jonathan Anderson for winning Grow It, Catch It,  Cook It’s first ever competition. The amazing fellas at Life Cykel will be sending him out one of their Home Grown Mushroom Boxes so he can get cracking growing his own Oyster mushrooms.

  ‘Welchy’ chose this recipe entry as the winner because it completely captures everything that I am writing about on the blog. Fresh home grown ingredients harvested just before use, fresh seafood caught personally and locally with little to no transport footprint and supporting a small local operation’s passion. I hadn’t heard of Magpie Ridge Organics before but their Toodyay farm and products sound amazing. There is even a fishing tip buried in there too :).

  Jon writes:

  Ingredients:

  • 20 king prawns freshly caught from the Swan River
  • 3 large button mushrooms
  • 1 spring onion from the garden
  • 2 garlic cloves from the garden
  • 50-100 ml olive oil (highly recommend, our mates fresh made – Magpie Ridge brand)
  • 15 g butter
  • 500 g linguine pasta (even better if home made – ask Davina how)
  • 4 leaves basil from the garden

  Method:

  1. Start boiling a large pot of water for the linguine.  While you wait chop up the garlic, spring onion and mushrooms.
  2. Remove the heads from the prawns but leave the shell on the tails (If you like to fish, keep the prawn heads for your berley mixture).
  3. Once the water has boiled add the linguine and than heat a frying pan on high for the prawn mixture.
  4. Once the frying pan is hot add the olive oil and let it heat up for 1-2 minutes.  Add the mushrooms, garlic and spring onion and reduce for about 3 minutes.
  5. Add the prawns and butter and cook for 3-4 minutes.
  6. Turn the heat off the frying pan and remove from hot area.
  7. Drain linguine and mix into the frying prawn sauce mixture.
  8. Add the chopped up fresh basil along with salt and pepper to your liking.  Freshly graded Parmesan is optional.

  Serving:

  Although unorthodox, my wife and I really enjoy Black Chook Shiraz bubbles to make it a bit of a celebration!

  

  Thanks from Life Cykel, ‘Welchy’ and I Jon,

  PK

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  June 23, 2016

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  Day 7 Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box Side 2

  

  This product truly is rewarding. This is what greeted me this morning.

  You might recall that last week I harvested my first mushrooms from the starting side of my Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box (Day 12 Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box Side 1.

  Since then I have:

  • taken the bag out and cut it on the other side
  • soaked it over night
  • put it back in the box with the unharvested side visible in the window
  • placed it back in kitchen (out of direct sunlight) and
  • waited as patiently as I could :).

  I can’t wait for my second crop.

  Don’t forget about our competition to win one of these boxes (thanks to those who have already entered and to the generosity of the guys at Life Cykel) and see my other mushroom posts here.

  Cheers,

   

  PK

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  June 14, 2016

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  Day 12 Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box Side 1

  Yesterday my patience paid off when I got to harvest my first batch of mushrooms. I got almost 250 g (edit: I got almost 500g in the end of batch 1) and could have harvested a few more. I am leaving them to get bigger and I can already see new ones emerging. When they stop coming I can take the bag out, cut it on the other side, soak it over night and off we go again. See my post Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box Unboxing for more information.

  Post harvest pic:

  

   

  I gave a large paper bag full of them to my mum in exchange for some baby sitting 🙂 and I also had enough left over to add to the green salad we had with some beef steaks for dinner. I just salt and peppered them and sliced them raw. They have an amazingly subtle nutty flavour and really complimented the steaks. Best of all, they had been harvested moments before. There is nothing better! Today I am going to use one of the big ones as a plate for a runny fried egg at lunch.

  I thoroughly recommend this product. Check out my other Life Cykel posts here.

  Here is a slideshow of the mushrooms’ amazing growth over the past 12 days:

   

  Thanks again to the guys at Life Cykel for this amazing product,

   

  PK

   

   

   

   

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  May 29, 2016

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  Day 6 Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box

  I was so ecstatic this morning when in  a pre-coffee stupor I checked my Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box. After 5 days of nothing I was rewarded with little baby mushrooms :).

  Don’t forget our competition where you can win one of these boxes simply for submitting your favourite recipe that features mushrooms. See Want a free Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box?

  

  Can’t wait to grow more things in the kitchen with my two sons.

  Thanks all,

   

  PK

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  PK

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  May 24, 2016

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  Want a free Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box?

  Well of course you do!

  

  Life Cykel and growitcatchitcookit.com have a Home Grown Mushroom Box to give away to one lucky Western Australian resident.

  Submit your favourite mushroom recipe for your chance to win.

  Special guest blogger ‘Welchy’ is going to choose the winner on 20th June 2016.

  I know she will be looking for recipes that use the freshest ingredients (that you may even have grown or caught yourself) and share your tips and tricks with the rest of us.

  Click this link to go our Facebook page and submit your recipe 🙂 

  ENTER HERE

  or

  HERE IF NOT ON FACEBOOK

  Please share this competition and view my Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box posts here.

  PK 

   

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  May 21, 2016

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  PK Reviews: Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box

  Julian Mitchell and Ryan Creed are doing amazing things over at LifeCykel. Based in Fremantle, Western Australia and with an ethos of growing food in a sustainable way, they have created the world’s first urban mushroom farm. The amazing thing is that their growing medium is coffee grounds collected from local businesses. They even go one step further and compost the growing medium once it has served its purpose.

  Now the lads have a product that allows you to grow your own mushrooms at home whilst leveraging their sustainability efforts. Yesterday my Home Grown Mushroom Box arrived and I got straight into it after work.

  I am going to post my progress every few days 🙂

  It couldn’t be easier to get going:

  1. Choose a location out of direct sunlight and heat sources. I chose the bathroom.
  2. Relocate to the kitchen when your wife says no to the bathroom 🙂
  3. Remove the recipe panel at the front of the box and cut a cross through the plastic.
  4. Open the box and remove the free misting bottle and the bag.
  5. Soak the bag, cut side face down, for 8 to 10 hours. I left mine overnight.
  6. Drain the excess water and place it back in the box.
  7. Wait patiently.

  Please see the rest of the Home Grown Mushroom Box posts here. Follow the guys on Facebook, Instagram and at https://lifecykel.com.au/.

   

   

  Enjoy,

  PK

   

   

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  May 19, 2016