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It’s a Potatoey Mushroomy Truffley Kinda Sidedish

Potato and Portobello with Herbed Truffled Salt

Mmm, I was sent a packet of Woody’s Gourmet Black Truffle and Fresh Thyme Herb Sea Salt to play with and so I thought, truffle and thyme go with potato and mushroom like Trump and dead cat wigs. How could I not find a delicious way to make these make love to each other. Since I wanted the herbed salt to really stand out, cause let’s face it, this is really the only way my poor ass it’s getting its cheeks on some real truffle, I basically used it as a garnish. And it worked.

Also, the salt comes in big flakes and is a little wet and it feels kinda fancy, which I really liked. I wanted to put a crazy royal hat on it.

Slice a potato length-wise and using a mandolin (best kitchen gadget ever, get one) slice your potatoes super thin. Slice your portobello mushroom in nice long slices.

Melt a hunk of butter (just do it and don’t think about it) and add a bit of olive oil in a non-stick pan and toss them potatoes straight in. Saute for 5 min and then in goes the mushrooms. Add more butter and olive oil if necessary but try not to go all overboard like Paula Deen Butter Queen, who now has Diabetes I heard, but you didn’t hear it from me. Saute until both are soft, about 15 minutes.

Plate and sprinkle with Truffled Salt. Serve immediately. Is your mouth freaking watering?

I feel conflicted. Do I want to throw up or eat this?

Fast Food Lasagna, by Epic Meal Time = 15 Big Macs, 15 Baconators from Wendy’s, 15 Teen Burgers from A&W (without veggies), seven orders of onion rings, bacon, Big Mac sauce, Jack Daniel’s meat sauce, tons cheese.

More at epicmealtime.com

So many AWESOME things lately.

This cat is so excited about ribbons!

So many AWESOME things lately.

1. I have been drinking green juices everyday and boy, do I feel great. I owe it all to my Nutrition and Fitness Task Master, Adina at Sproutwellness. More on that later.

2. I participated in some sort of food promo extravaganza in concert with foodzie, SchoolHouse Kitchen Mustard, and my new favorite food blog, TurntableKitchen (sheeeeeet, I wish I had the time and dedication to this monster as those lovlies do for their blog).

3. I got sent some Doritos to play with from FoodBuzz, more on that later too!

4. But what’s really floating my boat is the Recipe Swap on Krrb. So much fun! Check out what I’m swapping, I can’t wait to see what I get back from Paris, Stockholm, Isreal, Argentina, Atlanta, etc… Play with meeeeeee! Instructions here.

Mustard Mustard Mustard – Part 1

Ham and School House Mustard with Dill Pickles and Potato Chips on a Pretzel Roll

I was recently sent a jar of SchoolHouse Kitchen Horseradish Dill Mustard to play with and share on Foodzie.com. The task at hand was to create some food, blog about it and then stuff my face (well, that’s my addition). The mustard was so delicious that I OCD’s it and made three things. Here is one of them. Expect two more mustard-loving posts…

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Mofongo Me All Night Long

Mofongo

Mofongo. The word alone sounds like something you yell at another person in the height of passionate anger or passionate lub makin. Either way, I want to use it more often. But in real real life? It’s actually fried mashed plantains with garlic aioli, pork bits and fresh cilantro. And let me let you know…
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What I Learned in The New Yorker Review of “The Mad Genius of ‘Modernist Cuisine’”

Things like how I need to stop sharing glasses of water with my cat cause she cleans her asshole with the same tongue she drinks water with. I know it sounds like I should have known better before and should have been grossed out already but I just kinda thought that their-mouths-are-cleaner-than-our-hands kinda thing. Isn’t that true?? Something like that…

“The discussion of poo-eating in “Modernist Cuisine” is exhaustive, convincing, and gag-inducing. According to the microbiologist Philip Tierno, “We’re basically bathed in feces as a society.” “Bathed in feces”—not words you often read in a cookbook, but apparently poo-eating accounts for about eighty per cent of all food-related illness. Also, cat litter in the kitchen? Bad news. Toxoplasma gondii, a species of protozoa present in cat litter, kills three hundred and seventy-five Americans a year, and perpetuates itself through cat feces in a freaky way: when rodents eat toxoplasmii, their brain chemistry is changed so that they develop an attraction to the smell of cats. There’s no happy ending.”

How utterly awesome. Meow!

Chanterelle the cat