What a beautiful Saturday in Southern Chester County for a group of men and women to visit from Richmond, VA. The Mushroom Cap was on their agenda after leaving Winterthur Museum. They had been to Simon Pierce and will go to Longwood Gardens before leaving for home. Great group of people. Most took advantage of our offer of making a purchase of $10 to receive a free 1 pound bag of button mushrooms. Interesting to find that the most popular item purchased was our "mushroom brush". Great little item for cleaning your mushrooms. One visitor purchased our "pickled mushrooms" because our label shows a martini glass with one olive and one mushroom on a toothpick. I asked if she had ever had a mushroom in her martini - who would have ever thought? All left happy - those who did not wish to purchase took a little jaunt over to the Half Moon - uh oh - bus is leaving in 5 minutes - go tell the others. After a short 45 minute stay in Kennett Square they were off to their hotel for dinner. They were warned not to leave their mushrooms on the bus - didn't want them to freeze - especially if they wanted to have them for their Thanksgiving dinner.
Yesterday a few mushroom food gifts were purchased by those visiting family for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Portabella, shiitake and maitake mushrooms will be on someones table in NJ. Visitors were in Kennett Square picking up their horse at New Bolton Center. Interesting - they were in earlier in the week when they brought the horse to New Bolton and knew they had to stop back for fresh mushrooms!
Jenny is going to Canada this week to visit family. Jenny works at The Mushroom Cap and put together a great gift for her Aunt who she has not seen in a long time. Porcini flavored linguini, roasted portabella pasta sauce, mushroom shaped chocolates, italian mushroom dip mix and a few other mushroom related items.
How about our one pound bag of mixed mushrooms? I did forget to mention that two on the bus tour did purchase these. We offer a mix of shiitake, oyster, crimini and enoki mushrooms. This is a great mix for soup or a saute. As a matter of fact we will be taking a variety mushrooms to MI for our Thanksgiving feast. Also a must to take a 3 lb. box of maitake for our friends from Thailand who we will see in MI. They taught us that the maitake mushroom keeps the ying and the yang right in our bodies - great for our immune systems. Be sure to eat your maitake today!
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