Thanks to Chase Snyder for this post and sick photos from Nepal!
When Winter blows into Nepal and cold fog covers everything every couple of days, straw thatched huts start popping up like mushrooms on a yak pie.
What goes on inside them? Mushrooms!
There is an epic amount of mushroom growing in Nepal. It’s a choice winter crop for people who cultivate rice, mustard and maize at other times of year. The mushroom shanties are built up and broken down on a seasonal basis, on top of fields that are laying fallow.
My host family here went out and bought some mushrooms from a local grower recently, and made an amazing mushroom curry:
avant gourd 