Mushroomy

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.

Near-synonyms: mushroomoid, mushroomlike; fungiform

a mushroomy outline of a passing cloud

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.