Tree climbing 81 year old Ada shares her recipe for a mushroom pasta dish called taglioline con i pioppini. These little mushrooms are commonly found growing on poplar trees; their scientific name is Agrocybe aegerita.
If you cannot find them, use whatever is available: button, shiitake, hen of the woods, chanterelles (lucky you!) and so on.
For the sauce, Ada used:
1/2 onion, one garlic clove, around 500g mushrooms, a small glass of white wine, a mushroom stock cube (optional), butter, a little cream mixed with powdered dried porcini. To serve: chopped parsley and grated Parmigiano.
For the pasta: 1 egg for every 100g 00 flour. Incidentally 'taglioline' is the local way of saying 'tagliolini' - thin tagliatelle.