For the last of our shiitakes, we scoured Tom Douglas’ Seattle Kitchen cookbook for a truly special recipe. Honestly, although I’ve never been disappointed by a Tom Douglas recipe, they are often fairly involved and complicated. However this particular day was a Sunday, and we had some extra time, so we decided to make potstickers.
Homemade potstickers
We figured (rightly so), that we could make these potstickers on a Sunday afternoon and then cook them throughout the week. They take a few extra minutes to put together, but once you’ve made them, just freeze them. When you’re [...]
The second recipe of mushroom week uses our home grown shiitakes to create a moist and delicious chicken dish. This was one of those recipes where the first bite
Shiitake Crusted Chicken
had my taste buds singing and the second and third bites had me convinced that I just might be the world’s best cook. The flavors were perfect together, the chicken was cooked perfectly, and the creamed shiitake mushrooms we made as a side dish made for a rich, mushroomy meal.
Shiitake Crusted Chicken, from Epicurious
Olive oil 6 oz shiitake mushrooms (crimini or portabelo would [...]
You all know how I feel about Orangette’s morels. They are one of my great food loves and the entire reason I started eating mushrooms after years of avoidance.I seriously considered just using that recipe with some of our freshly grown shiitakes as well, but a little web searching yielded a slightly different recipe that’s every bit as good. The original recipe came from Epicurious and I adapted it just a bit. I’ll try it with morels just as soon as they are in season (which should be soon).
Creamed shiitake mushrooms with rosemary
Creamed Mushrooms (adapted [...]
Everyone gets into a rut sometimes. Whether it’s a workout rut, a house rut, or a cooking rut, they exist and they can be pretty deep and hard to escape from. I can’t say that our cooking was in a deep rut, but I have been wanting to branch out lately and try a few new things. To that end, one of my goals this year is to try more of my own recipes. I have a good sense of what types of flavors go together, so I should be able to create the occasional winner and the [...]
