Seafood Fettuccini... Fancy!

I bought Chris Lobster Mushrooms this Christmas as a stocking stuffer.

 And before you make that face and think "why would you buy your husband fungi for Christmas?", it's best you understand that my husband has a borderline obsession with mushrooms.  

(Not the drug. Just so we are clear.)

Lobster mushrooms look and taste like lobster. (or they should... I bought them dehydrated at an artisan show, and we have a few things to learn about reconstituting 'shrooms).

The mushroom package told us they would be delicious in a white wine sauce. So we thought... no problem, let's do it.

We've never cooked with wine before, and as I mentioned, we've also never reconstituted anything.  Both were a learning curve.

However, if I do say so myself, we made a freaking delicious Seafood Fettuccini in a White Wine Sauce (la dee daaaa.) 

Below is a collage of our evening cooking something new.

Click here for the recipe.  

A Few Things We Learned

Where has garlic butter been all our lives? Amazing.

"Reducing" your white wine sauce doesn't mean putting the temp to "low"

Drinking red wine while cooking is always necessary (and I just found an amazing Italian cab sauv/merlot mix for only $6.95... score yo!)

Adding more red pepper flakes than the recipe calls for makes for one spicy (yet still fab) dish

Lobster mushrooms are probably best enjoyed fresh, wherever they come from

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2012... the year I get excited about food in more than just a "sit on the couch all day and watch Food Network" way. Good stuff!

Book Cake

There is something sad about finishing a really great book.

(Don't cry Dawson... Joey just doesn't love you "that way")

I'm a quick reader, and I wish I wasn't.

I wish I could read a book slowly, and savour it.  But no.  Instead, I scarf it down like the famous euphemism of the fat kid and cake. (Poor fat kid... he just really likes cake! Don't we all?)

(Finding a picture on the internet of a fat kid enjoying cake got weird for me, so instead, enjoy the words!)

I love to read so much, but when I'm nearing the end of an amazing book, there's a mini battle in my brain.

FINISH IT!

NO, IT'S TOO GOOD. I WANT TO READ IT FOR AT LEAST ONE MORE DAY.

FINISH IT BLONDIE.

BUT WHAT WILL I READ TOMORROW NIGHT BY THE FIRE? I WANT IT TO LAST!!!!

OMG, JUST FINISH THE DAMN BOOK.

...ok.

It's like losing a good friend. (Not in the morbid death way, just the "you're going back already? Can't we just hang out a few days longer?" way)

Anyway, I just finished another great book, and I'm feeling a titch melancholy.

and also... now I want cake.

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me" - C.S. Lewis