The recipe for these is from Cook's Illustrated, the magazine for "America's Test Kitchen" on PBS. Lauren's friend Laura's mother was kind enough to give me a year of it, and I have used lots of the recipes. These are made by sauteeing mushrooms in olive oil and lemon juice with salt and red pepper flake, and then marinating them for several hours with sliced garlic, shallot and red bell pepper. They're great, and they smell like liquid garlic and taste like mushroom power.
Now let's say it's the night before Thanksgiving, the baby's asleep, your wife is dozing on the couch, and you're cooking. Is there something you should sip on under those circumstances? If you said a splash of 8-year old Wild Turkey 101-proof with a drop of filtered water, you're exactly correct. It's Thanksgiving! Go for the one with the bird on the bottle.
Lauren and Noah and I have considerable good fortune to be thankful for this year, and I hope you all do as well. Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!
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Happy Thanksgiving to you guys too! No turkey for us either--two apricot glazed rock cornish hens instead. :) Even though I'm not a big 'shroom fan...I have to say, my mouth was watering!
Well, we did get to eat one, I just didn't make it. I actually prefer game hens for taste to turkey, but I do like the shared experience of everyone eating one at the same time.
Wild Turkey, eh? My husband took one look at this picture and said, "Cold Duck would've been a good one, too."
Them mushrooms sure look good. Jon, don't you have a nice highball glass for that turkey?
Sure I do, but sometimes a plastic cup suits the mood better. In this case it seemed like kind of a bother to have to wash a crystal glass.
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