mushroomy

adj

1. Characteristic of mushrooms.

   “the mushroomy smell of the old cellar”

   “Dried mushrooms are really mushroomier than the canned and very simple to use; they are used a great deal in Chinese and Italian cooking.”

   “It grew steadily colder and presently a mushroomy sort of smell came up from the darkness.”

   “Japanese may think of matsutake as the preeminent, mushroomiest mushroom of them all, but in the West, it is the poisonously beautiful, bright red, psychotropic, white-dotted member of the genus Amanita, Amanita muscaria, that is the much-cartooned representative ur-mushroom.”

2. Resembling a mushroom.

   “Near-synonyms: mushroomoid, mushroomlike; fungiform”

   “a mushroomy outline of a passing cloud”

3. Flavoured with mushrooms.

   “the mushroomy tang of her favorite soup”

   “What follows are simple party recipes that are naturals for casual indoor entertaining: endive stuffed with garlicky goat cheese, herbs and sun-dried tomatoes; a mushroomy pasta salad; asparagus, lima beans, leeks and fennel tossed in an all-green salad; a grilled vegetable sandwich; a fig upside-down cake, and, of course, brownies.”

   “The scallops are pounded and watchfully cooked to maximize their callow tenderness, which is further italicized by the mushroomiest sauce on the block, glowing with fine Marsala wine.”

   “You can’t have an ail-American cookbook without a great gravy recipe. No can do, so we worked hard to get you the creamiest, mushroomiest, low-fat version of the gravy of your childhood and this one did it.”

   “In a cool, colonial dining room overlooking the Malacca river, he demonstrates three such recipes: a mellow, mushroomy chicken curry (ayam pong the), a fiery okra salad (sambal bendeh), and – a personal favourite – a spicy, oniony shrimp-paste omelette (cincalock omelette).”