Sprang!

Time for some of my favorites to return. Warm mushroom salad and asparagus soup. I added peas to the soup to preserve the color. You can get the recipes here and here.

Poached Salmon

I adapted this recipe for a main course last night. I subbed in morels for truffles and unfortunately skipped out the shrimp and shrimp butter. I used truffle salt and brown butter whenever I could, didn't bother with the cognac, and added a side of linguine liberally tossed in the very delectable sauce. Next time though, I'm definitely going for the shrimp.

Veggie Pizza

Shiitake mushroom and asparagus pizza on whole wheat dough, with a sprinkling of truffle salt.

Still Rainy

Pan-fried udon noodles with shredded beef, shiitake mushroom, sesame and onions.

Mushroom Soup

Look, the weather stinks, it's been nothing but cold, windy and wet the past week, and I want to do nothing but curl up in a blanket by the fireplace and drink soup. Done and done, minus the fireplace. Mad Men episodes will suffice, also here's a great cream of mushroom soup recipe.

Pumpernickel Mushroom Bread Salad

For dinner tonight I attempted the Pumpernickel, Watercress and Mushroom Bread Salad. This was one of those recipes that seemed so nonsensical at first that I just had to try it.

I made a few changes:

- I couldn't find any watercress at neither my neighbourhood Capers nor Safeway. No arugula either. So I tore up a few Romaine leaves and threw it in my regular Earthbound Farms salad mix.

- I forgoed (forwent?) the garlic in the recipe and simply used garlic butter. Yay!

- I used white mushrooms, dried porcini mushrooms, and the remainder of my oyster mushrooms.

- I had no idea where I could get Vidalia onions (I couldn't even find any fucking watercress...what, are they not in season? Do stuff like lettuce ever go out of season? Don't they just grow in greenhouses?). So I just used green onions. Close enough to leeks, maybe?

Anyways, it turned out delicious. At first glance I was like, all, Pumpernickel + Watercress + Mushroom + Bread + Salad = huh? But now it all makes delicious sense. The salad has a rich, earthy flavour and is surprisingly filling.