Anyone for Truffles

Food/Drink/Culinaria
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I can only afford to eat the freebies :wink: absolutely delicious

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i like chocolate truffles but have never had the real thing. :smiley:

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We planted 25 trees inoculated with Tuber melanosporum 19 years ago. I plant a further five every other year. We have been reaping the benefits ever since, so has a local resto, this year we ‘cropped’ just over 5kg.

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I have never eaten let alone seen a real truffle. Like making the choccie ones though and eating them.

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We had a few meals made with them when we were in Rovinj in Croatia. They’re a bit cheaper there but still good. Sometimes Lidl has slices or sauces made with them. Like a strong garlic taste.
I like the chocolate ones too, which have nothing to do with real ones

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My unsophisticated palate has never liked them, sanglier food IM ( and the sangliers) O :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

But they go mad for them around here.

One of the restos near us specialises in truffles and foie gras. We’ll never set foot in the place.

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Clever :slightly_smiling_face:

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Nor me but I once had a Spaniel who was very fond of snuffling around the forest roots and when I saw an advert for training truffle dogs I was onto it straight away. Unfortunately when I rang the number, in a local Mairie, they said they knew nothing about it. :roll_eyes:

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Sanglier is great! A nice Wildschweinbraten, a wonderful stew I had in Italy with lots of olives, or I’ve even made a curry with it.

Shame they don’t seem to offer it much around here, even though they’re keen on shooting them!

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They keep them for the Chasse meals. We used to be regulars at them and quickly found that the secret of surviving 7 or so courses was the long gaps they leave between each. We would sit down around 7pm and after a long night of scoffing and dancing, would roll back home at about 2am.

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Loads of daub (sanglier stew) around this neck of the woods. We’ve even had a big leg dropped off to us as a thank you for a favour. As neither of us really like the meat our neighbour’s dog had a whale of a time.

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I’m jealous!

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ah well
 for all those who don’t enjoy truffles
 that’s more left for me to munch on.

I like visiting the Truffle Fairs as there are always plates full of carefully prepared truffley-stuff for the Public to eat

I try and share my gluttony amongst several different stands, so that no-one (hopefully) realises how much I’m eating
 :rofl:

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When we bought our house, I thought of planting some truffle oaks, but decided not to, as I understood they wouldn’t yield truffles for another ten years. Unfortunately, that decision was made some twelve years ago


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Daube, shirley?

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A stew by any other name would taste as pungent :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Put your truffle in an airtight pot with a pat of butter, unwrapped. Leave it for a day or two somewhere cool. Then get a bit of bread, toast it slightly, butter with the butter which has been cosying up to the truffle, shave the truffle onto it and press down on the shavings with your hand so they stick to the butter.
Super simple and super delicious. You can also put a truffle in with rice and eggs to infuse them with deliciousness.

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I only like white truffles but they are so much harder to come by.

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Lots of truffle oaks have been planted within 200m of our house in the last few years. The area (Perigord Noir 10km south of Sarlat toward border with the Lot) was a big centre of tobacco growing - nearly every farm / smallholding still has a barn that was used for drying the stuff. Walnuts then became the “cash crop” - nearest village is home to the biggest walnut co-op in France. With the walnut market perhaps beibg saturated, truffles appear to be the next big thing.

Yesterday saw a dozen or more cattle egrets in the plantation over the road - wonder if they’ll be renamed as “heron garde truffe”?