Mushrooms

It's odd sometimes to think of mushrooms as being a summer product.  In New England, once the rain actually falls, summer produces quite an abundance of beautiful mushrooms.  Over the past few days I have had maitakes, oysters, chanterelles and chicken of the woods mushrooms dropped off.  What do you do when you have a mountain of beautiful, fresh mushrooms?  You make something as simple as you can.  When mushrooms are this fresh they are bursting with flavor so it is best to let them do all the talking in the dish.   Last night we had an exceptional dinner of fresh pasta with wild mushrooms and a shrimp and zucchini blossom salad, very summery, very easy, and very delicious...