Porcini Mushrooms

A few recipes using Porcini mushrooms have caught my eye recently. I've not used dried mushrooms a lot, but I do seem to have a few packages in my pantry all the time. With the discussion of porcini quality recently, led me on a search for what I could find here. I settled on a package from Pistol River Mushroom Farm in Gold Beach, OR. They say the mushrooms are imported from Italy. Instructions are offered on how to hydrate and a warning not to overcook. They are a pretty light taupe in color, long pieces, and I thought I detected an almost pea green color on the underside after putting them in water. My puppy was extremely interested in the intense odor, and insisted I hand her one to smell. She went a little goofy, like she wanted to roll in it.
I am using them in a chicken dish tonight and am anxious to see how we like them. Has anyone bought this brand or know of it?

I buy dried porcini a lot, but don't really pay attention to brand, since whatever store I'm buying them from usually only has one kind to choose from. I'll pay more attention next time.
Be sure you don't use the last 1 inch (or so) of the stock after you soak. There is a lot of grit there.

[Jenise]

Not one I know of, Karen. And I've not, to my knowledge anyway, ever used an American-grown Porcini. Only the Italians I used to buy that I can no longer get have the kind of intensity I want. And the old ones weren't light colored/pretty and protected from dark oxidative colors by sulfur the way they are now--I have to wonder it that isn't where the flavor went.

Just back from Italy, with a small stash of fresh boletus edulus (and another Boletus). The 2 larger ones went into a simple omelette this evening (getting back from hols = not much else in the fridge). Will do the remaining funghi tomorrow, probably with some fresh (agnelotti del) Plin from a favourite little food shop on via Lagrange in Torino. Shame we don't have easy access to a decent broth.

The dried ones in Italy seemed a lot more expensive than the last ones we bought (at a little truffle festival just south of Bologna).

Very dry in Piemonte at the moment and I suspect so all over Italy - not great for mushroom picking.