There are no mushrooms in the famous painting  ‘The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke’ of the Victorian lunatic Richard Dadd. Given the connotations of mushrooms and their place in folkore or in other Victorians’ eccentric writings, this is somehow unexpected. But we can think that something even stranger happened after the Fairy Feller stroke the chestnut. All  the chestnuts – not just the one he masterly smashed- turned into mushrooms. They spread uniformly like a hypothetical constellation defying the rules of gravity and space-time. Of course they could not be put to use for the construction of Queens Mab’s carriage ( have you ever heard of a carriage made of mushrooms?), so we roasted them with onions.  Queen Mab aside, this makes a great sidedish or – with the addition of some more greens – a good salad. Serves 4 as a side-dish 500g button mushrooms, washed, trimmed, and halved 250g small shallots, peeled and left whole 1 Tbsp rosemary leaves, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped 5 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1 handful rocket, roughly chopped 2 …