Medicinal Mushrooms Made Culinary - November 4

Medicinal Mushrooms Made Culinary

How to Cook with Functional Fungi & Make Them Part of Everyday Life

Core Class — Choose Your Format
Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
6:00pm - 8:00pm MST
2-Hour Immersive Experience

Choose Your Experience

In-Person Experience — $95
Online Experience — $65

In-Person: Light Cellar Teaching Kitchen (limited seats)
Online: Live via Zoom

You bought the mushroom powder. Now what do you actually do with it?

Reishi. Chaga. Lion's Mane. Maitake. Shiitake. Turkey Tail.

Medicinal mushrooms are everywhere—but for many people, using them means adding a scoop of powder to a drink or taking an extract every morning.

There is a much more delicious world to explore.

Join Chef Alex Hamilton and Malcolm Saunders for a culinary journey into the fungal kingdom and discover how medicinal and functional mushrooms can move beyond the supplement shelf and into the kitchen.

You'll explore both fresh and dried culinary mushrooms as well as concentrated medicinal mushroom preparations, learning how to work with their distinctive flavours, textures, and properties in ways that make them an enjoyable part of everyday food.

In this class, you'll learn:

• The difference between culinary mushrooms, medicinal mushrooms, and mushrooms that offer qualities of both
• Which mushrooms work best as foods, teas, broths, powders, and extracts
• How to work with fresh, dried, and powdered mushrooms
• How cooking and extraction methods vary between different fungi
• How to build rich umami flavour with mushrooms
• How to incorporate mushroom powders and extracts without overwhelming a dish
• How to pair mushrooms with herbs, fermented foods, broths, fats, spices, and other ingredients
• Practical ways to make mushrooms part of breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, sauces, and more

From functional to delicious

Medicinal mushrooms don't have to feel like medicine.

Some become rich broths.

Some make extraordinary sauces.

Some can be transformed into meaty centre-of-the-plate dishes.

Others disappear beautifully into soups, drinks, gravies, chocolate, and everyday recipes.

We'll explore the culinary strengths of different mushrooms and show you how to choose the right preparation for the fungi you're working with.

Recipes & preparations may include:

Miso-Marinated Lion's Mane Schnitzel

Lion's Mane transformed into a substantial mushroom “steak,” marinated with chickpea miso, herbs and apple cider vinegar before being breaded and pan-fried.

Deep Medicinal Mushroom Gravy

A rich mushroom stock incorporating fungi such as Reishi, Chaga, Lion's Mane, Maitake, Shiitake and Turkey Tail, transformed into a deeply savoury gravy.

Brown Butter Oyster Mushrooms

Caramelized oyster mushrooms finished with greens, nettle, spruce tips and bright acidity.

Mega Umami Maitake & Miso Soup

A simple example of incorporating concentrated medicinal mushroom preparations into an everyday savoury dish.

Medicinal Mushroom Drinks & Broths

Learn how mushrooms such as Chaga and Reishi can become the foundation for teas, broths, elixirs, and other preparations.

And additional mushroom-inspired recipes and applications.

What you'll experience:

In-Person

• Multiple mushroom tastings and preparations
• Live culinary demonstrations
• Fresh, dried, powdered, and extracted mushrooms to explore
• Professional cooking techniques with Chef Alex
• Malcolm's practical perspective on medicinal mushrooms and preparation
• Recipes and ideas you can immediately take into your own kitchen

Online

Join the complete culinary demonstrations and teaching live from home, participate in Q&A, and receive the recipes and recording afterward.

Who this is for:

• Anyone already buying medicinal mushrooms but unsure what to do with them
• People curious about Lion's Mane, Chaga, Reishi, Maitake, Shiitake, and other functional fungi
• Home cooks wanting to expand their mushroom repertoire
• Herbalists and mushroom enthusiasts looking for more culinary applications
• People who would rather eat their mushrooms than simply take another capsule
• Anyone who attended 9 Medicinal Mushrooms You Should Know and wants to go deeper

No previous mushroom knowledge is required.

Instructors

with Chef Alex Hamilton & Malcolm Saunders

Chef Alex brings professional culinary technique and creativity to the kitchen, while Malcolm brings decades of experience exploring medicinal mushrooms, wild foods, herbal preparations, and functional ingredients.

Together, they'll bridge the worlds of medicinal mushroom knowledge and genuinely delicious food.

After you register

All participants receive a reminder email with full event details, the Zoom link for online attendees, a recipe collection, and access to the recording after the class.