An Obssesion

No this will not be an advertisement for perfume, there will be no man with six pack abs fawning over an anorexic female in black and white.

This is a peek into my obsession with food. Flipping through a food magazine , I found an article on Porcinis. Now I love mushrooms almost all of the edible ones to be exact. Not real fond of shitakes for some reason. They taste to much like dirt for me. Just one of those things.

Well on Sunday, my day off, I'm thinking of porcinis and how I can really up the mushroom component of or Sunday dinner. It's Wednesday and I am already planning the Sunday supper. Now I call Frank's and find out the price of the prized fungus. A good price for the Pike Place Market, but I'll get a little discount, remember relationships. I'll swing over to the meat market for some beef tenderloin or flatiron, something tender that will be the perfect foil for the mushrooms. I'm thinking risotto, herbs and wine or maybe some of the porcinis to this. We have some foie gras mousse in the freezer. I'll probably use the mousse to mount the sauce. Oxtail jus reduction with lots of red wine. As I'm working all this in my head I remember using a mushroom flavored soy with some pork that was delicious. What about a paste with mushroom soy, garlic and mushroom powder. Really push the flavors. Now for the vegetable and salad components. Lydia loves salads, especially Caesars. Maybe I'll do something with goat cheese. I saw a recipe the other day that really got me juiced up.

It's late spring early summer so maybe some zucchini blossoms with an asparagus mousse or a slightly grilled vegetable medley. I'll figure out some of the other components when I get to the market.

Even though I'm at work and doing a specific style of food my mind is always working on the next meal I'm trying to cook for us. Luckily I only get one day off or we would be spending every extra dime on extravagant meals.

Hopefully we can post some pictures after dinner Sunday night.