Recipes of the Week: Tis the Season
I was so thrilled by the response to last week’s round-up that I’m inspired to do it that way again. Now that was a special edition, I can’t pull out 40 fabulous recipes every week (okay, I totally could but it would take awhile). But I have caught on to the concept of highlighting several recipes of the week at a time.
There’s been such an explosion of them lately that I think I’d be missing too much if I didn’t. So, first up, a salute to the photo at top- Kate from Cooking During Stolen Moments is responsible. As one of the Internet’s resident “foodie mamas,” (my term, not theirs) Kate brings about the kinds of straightforwardly beautiful food that can be put together during naptime or, better yet, with small hands holding their own wooden spoons. This pasta with portabellas and red sauce just looked warm and hearty to me. And quite healthy to boot. That’s a lot to offer from just cooking in the stolen moments.
Our next honoree this week was a tip-off from Twitter. As an aside, can I say that makes my day? This site is provided by the actual farmers who grow your mushrooms. Having you tell us how you’re doting on their pride and joy? It’s fantastic. It’s why we decided to do this to begin with. Sanaa Cooks did just that. @MushroomChannel (in my head, “you rang?”) I’m making lentils with mushrooms and cilantro tonight.
It’s cool and wet in a lot of the US right now. Part of fall, at least the yellow leaves are pretty when they’re slick on the sidewalks. Feel-good food like lentils and mushrooms sounds like the antidote to any lasting chill. Add in a sprig of a warm herb like cilantro and I think you have a winner. Hey @SanaaCooks, How did it go?
This week’s final honoree almost wasn’t. She emailed me and the silly filters did not know what they were dealing with. I wanted to shout at my email going “Do you KNOW who this is?? This is Kalyn Denny. Kalyn giving love to mushrooms.” Please check out her fall masthead in case you doubt the devotion. For those of you unfamiliar with Kalyn’s Kitchen, she’s a healthy eating blogger, focused primarily on low-glycemic index cooking and the South Beach Diet. She’s also been a panelist at two of the major conferences we attended this year. She sent along a few of her own favorite mushroom recipes and picking just one was hard. Then I realized it meant I could hoard the rest and sprinkle them out like a grade A namedropper. My final choice was a recent one, Wild Rice with Sausage and Mushrooms, pictured below. My guess is that some of you have begun pulling recipes for Thanksgiving (I say that because I am) and this one has been bookmarked, starred and Stumbled.
