[Sca-cooks] Playing around in the kitchen.

[Heleen Greenwald]

Wow Gunthar!
That meal sounds delicious! And clever you to think of pulverizing the bread
crumbs.  (See how useful period cooking can be in daily life?)  Do crimini
mushrooms have a taste much like portabello?  I am just starting to like
mushrooms and have so far declined to buy a package of crimini because I was
unsure of the taste.
Phillipa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Gunter" <countgunthar at hotmail.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:06 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Playing around in the kitchen.


> Now before you get the wrong idea, and you know who you are,
> I'm talking about recipes here.
>
> Actually it was just being inspired. For those of you
> who live outside America's borders, Monday was our Labor
> Day Holiday in which we celebrate working by not working.
> It is customarily celebrated by parties of barbecueing.
> I was rather wanting to attend a barbecue and do all the
> Labor Day rituals of grilling meats, drinking beer, socializing
> and sunburn.
>
> Unfortunately I spent the day alone. (Yeah, I know, Awwww!)
> ANYway, I wanted to at least barbecue a steak, but I don't have a
> grill for my apartment. I did have a nice t-bone so just
> proceeded to cook that up. I did a simple saute' lots of garlic
> in a frypan, add seasoned steak, brown then place sliced crimini
> mushrooms around it and put it in the oven.
>
> The steak and 'shrooms came out great but there was a lot of
> goodness in the pan. Gravy!
> Hmmmm.....no flour, no wine, no milk...not a lot of sauce makins.
> Then came inspiration. I grabbed a Shiner (the beer the Gods of
> Texas drink) and deglazed the pan with that. Then toasted up
> some whole wheat bread and pulverized the toast to crumbs.
> Added the crumbs to the liquid (ala period recipes) and added
> a splash of red wine vinegar for bite. It came out great with
> the steak and mushrooms.
>
> It's fun to take some inspiration from period recipes and make
> something just fun. The final product was very similar to a
> basic Garlic-Pepper Sauce.
>
> Gunthar
>
>
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