Braised snails in a Thai basil and chicken mousse, all dusted with black trumpet mushroom powder, was one example.

It is all enhanced with a wonderful sauce of black trumpet mushrooms.

Fairway Fruits and Vegetables also has white trumpet mushrooms from Oregon for $9.99 a pound.

Note how the island of squash in the center of the bowl adds one texture, the slight chewiness of trumpet mushrooms another.

Clean the cepes, girolles and black trumpet mushrooms, and place half of them in a medium soup pot.

Probably the least successful dish was called risotto, although it bore no resemblance to that, with black trumpet mushrooms.

Among its many entrees are venison, chicken rolled in pecans with black trumpet mushrooms, and mahi-mahi.

In fact, you could substitute foie gras for the chicken livers (and use truffles instead of trumpet mushrooms).

But the grilled trumpet mushrooms translated to just a few slices placed atop a yellow tomato tartare.

BLACK trumpet mushrooms are the latest evidence that the chef's life is not an easy one.