David Thompson dinner @ Longrain

[polly]

I was wondering if anyone could share their experience of the dinner David Thompson did at Longrain Melbourne.

I didn't get to go, but my partner works at the restaurant and he brought some food home for me to try.

There was a lovely gentle and quite sweet dish of braised Murry Cod with eggplants and pine mushrooms and a hot hot curry of beef with chillies, pepper and galangal, but that's all i got to try.

Anyone go to the dinner?

[aussiebarracuda]

I was wondering if anyone could share their experience of the dinner David Thompson did at Longrain Melbourne.

I didn't get to go, but my partner works at the restaurant and he brought some food home for me to try.

There was a lovely gentle and quite sweet dish of braised Murry Cod with eggplants and pine mushrooms and a hot hot curry of beef with chillies, pepper and galangal, but that's all i got to try.

Anyone go to the dinner?

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Pine mushrooms!!! ......in early april .......we need rain in Daylesford....the forest is so so dry

[polly]

Yeah it's pretty early isn't it?

don't know where they came from but they worked beautifully in the dish because they held their shape and texture.

[Shinboners]

Pine mushrooms!!!   ......in early april .......we need rain in Daylesford....the forest is so so dry

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We saw a lot of pine mushrooms at the Richmond street market about two weeks ago. One stand had several cartons of them, but they were of very poor quality - big, but very damaged specimens. I can't remember the price, but they were not that expensive.

But only one stallholder (different from the one above) has had them in the last two weeks, and I think he would've been charging at least $50/kg for them.