Equally good was the loin of veal with woodland mushrooms in a light cream sauce perfumed with fresh sage.
A starter of wild woodland mushrooms was a definite hit, despite being a tad salty.
Grilled salmon may be commonplace, but its companions of baby red mustard greens, woodland mushrooms and lemon grass beurre blanc are not.
On two tries Atlantic salmon was beautifully timed, with stir-fried woodland mushrooms, sesame, soy sauce, lime and honey providing pleasing Asian notes.
And as quickly as city bulldozers crush one shantytown, they say, others spring up like woodland mushrooms after a rainstorm.
Others include morels, those delectable woodland mushrooms found in the Pacific Northwest and Michigan.
The possibilities as starters are Fishers Island oysters in a green apple vinaigrette or puff pastry of woodland mushrooms in aged Marsala.
Agaricus semotus is a woodland mushroom of the Agaricales order of fungi.
Agaricus pocillator, a woodland mushroom, is distributed through southeastern North America in ranges at least as far north as Illinois.
But an order of woodland mushrooms mixed with Vidalia onions added considerably to the dish.