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March 27, 2007 by Tien Chiu

Morels are yummy

Morels are back in season!  We went by the Ferry Plaza Market last Saturday to find them at the mushroom place, albeit at the hair-raising price of $45/lb.  We bought four ounces of them and took them home, where last night I made a morel mushroom sauce to go with broiled lamb.  I chopped fine one small onion and sauteed it in butter, then added about a pint of beef stock and four ice cubes’ worth of red wine (1/4 cup?) and set it to boil hard, to evaporate off some of the water.  (I would have used concentrated beef stock, as in a demiglace, but I didn’t have any.)  I chopped the morels into rings, mixed some butter with flour to form a roux, and sauteed the morels in the roux until tender.  Then I added them to the reduced stock and added a little cornstarch to thicken it (I hadn’t added enough roux to thicken, apparently).  The result was an extremely tasty red wine-morel sauce – I’m definitely going to make it again.

No progress on weaving or anything else creative – work has been busy lately.  I did, however, buy some glittery hot-pink organza and am going to use it to make myself an outfit for the Cinderella Century on Saturday.

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