Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) native to North America and eastern Asia that has a brown cap with a velvety stem when growing outdoors and a small white cap with a long thin stem when cultivated.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Speaking of tasty mushrooms, however, when doing shabu-shabu (which is also possible in vegetarian versions if you use a vegetarian stock to cook the food in, and stick to cooking vegetables), enoki mushrooms ("enokitake") are simply divine.
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Went out and bought about 2 kg of meaty pork rib, a packet of Bak Kut Teh herbs from a chinese medicine shop - star anise, cinnamon, cloves, dong guai and some other complex herbs - the chinese sensei will know , some enokitake , lettuce and "you char kuay" - deep fried crullers.
Archive 2007-09-01 Taitauwai 2007
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Went out and bought about 2 kg of meaty pork rib, a packet of Bak Kut Teh herbs from a chinese medicine shop - star anise, cinnamon, cloves, dong guai and some other complex herbs - the chinese sensei will know , some enokitake , lettuce and "you char kuay" - deep fried crullers.
Chemistry & Cooking Taitauwai 2007
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A little searching reveals that both enokitake and shiitake are found on (both) elm and beech (and also oak).
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And the "enoki" in "enokitake" apparently is hackberry, "lotus tree", or otherwise known as a type of elm.
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Israel grows just about everything (the advantage of having 5 climate zones in a small area), so alongside the fresh asparagus, arugula and grape tomatoes were dragon fruit, enokitake mushrooms, sunflower sprouts, fresh lemon grass (heavenly smell, makes great tea) along with cheeses, wine and beer from
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Israel grows just about everything (the advantage of having 5 climate zones in a small area), so alongside the fresh asparagus, arugula and grape tomatoes were dragon fruit, enokitake mushrooms, sunflower sprouts, fresh lemon grass (heavenly smell, makes great tea) along with cheeses, wine and beer from
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When I got to the house where we were eating, people were in the kitchen chopping the vegetables that were going into the dinner: daikon, bok choy, Napa cabbage, a variation on a scallion whose name I forget, and a couple of very cool kinds of mushrooms (enokitake and something translated as crab mushrooms).
don't eat alone 2008
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Since we had noodle soup for breakfast today, I stirred fried some leftover noodles with enokitake.
Mothering Corner 2008
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